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Professional Australasian championships: National Basketball League

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Professional Australasian championships: National Basketball League

The New Zealand Breakers' Fijian-born power forward, 1.98-metre-tall Mika Vukona, sees off a challenge from Eddie Gill of the Townsville Crocodiles during an Australian National Basketball League (NBL) match in Auckland in 2012. At this time Vukona was also a member of New Zealand's national basketball team, the Tall Blacks. The Breakers, the only New Zealand team in the NBL, won its championship in 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2015.

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Geoff Watson, Amateurism and professionalism – Rise of professionalism, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/38009/professional-australasian-championships-national-basketball-league (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Geoff Watson, published 22 November 2012.