Title: FIBA Oceania Championships 2009 Location: Canberra, Australia and Wellington, New Zealand Discuss: Oceania Championships Description: The Oceania championships features major players Australia and New Zealand, and very rarely smaller, island countries such as Guam, French Polynesia, American Samoa, and New Caledonia. This year, Australia and New Zealand will once again be the only countries [...]

In preparation for the FIBA Oceania Championships, the Tall Blacks of New Zealand set out on a eight-game European tour. Unfortunately, they ended the stint with more questions than answers as the Tall Blacks dropped six of the eight games. Their six losses came at the hands of Estonia (2), Canada, Italy, Belgium, and Finland respectively. [...]

Kirk Penney became the first New Zealander ever to win the ANBL MVP. The shooting guard for the New Zealand Breakers was honored with the award in the tightest MVP vote in NBL history, with only 6 votes separating the top five vote-getters. Penney narrowly beat out Matthew Knight of the Sydney Spirit, by just [...]

Today, the FIBA World Qualifying Tournament begins with 12 national teams from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and Oceania trying to grab one of the three remaining spots for the 2008 Beijing Olympics next month. Follow the intense action of every game, the heated battles, and all the upsets in our 2008 Olympic Qualifier Forum. [...]

I know this is coming a few days late, but I definitely think this needs a mention: After 14 years of representing New Zealand in international play, star shooting-guard Phil Jones has decided to retire, but the left-handed, 34-year old Tall Black will continue to play in the local NBL (NZ’s professional league) for the [...]

Athens beat out San Juan, Puerto Rico and will be the hosts for the pre-Olympic qualifying tournament that will be held July 14-20, 2008. The participating teams are the also-rans from this year’s regional championships. The final three Olympic spots will be determined by the three teams that win first, second and third place. The [...]

Who will host the FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament? With all the regional championships completed and nine teams set for next year’s Olympic games, three berths remain for teams vying for Beijing. And those three remaining spots will be determined by the FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men that will be held July 7-13th, [...]