Four Breakers games for regions
WELLINGTON: The Breakers will take four of their home Australian NBL games away from Auckland next season.
Spark Arena will host 10 home games.
The remaining four games will be taken to the regions, the venues to be confirmed in the coming weeks. Regularseason home games are unable to be held at the North Shore Events Centre while the facilities are being upgraded to meet NBL regulations.
The Breakers played their first game on the North Shore in 2003.
The season will start a week later on October 11 to accommodate seven games featuring five
NBL teams in the NBA preseason, including the Breakers against the Phoenix
Suns on October 3rd.
NBL chief executive Jeremy Loeliger said the league hoped to break the alltime attendance record for an opening round of 48,007, set in 1995.
‘‘This is a very exciting time for the NBL and Australasian basketball. The game is enjoying enormous momentum and we think the NBL is the secondbest league in the world after the NBA.
‘‘We are committed to offering a world entertainment product fans can enjoy whether they are watching in stadium or on broadcast,’’ Loeliger said.
There will be two breaks — November 26 to December 4 and February 18 to February 26 — while the Tall Blacks take part in the Fiba World Cup qualifying games. — RNZ