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    The Illawarra Hawks have issued an ominous warning to the rest of the Australian basketball league by trouncing top-ranked Melbourne United 106-93 on their home court and replacing them at the top of the NBL ladder

    The Illawarra Hawks have issued an ominous warning to the rest of the Australian basketball league by trouncing top-ranked Melbourne United 106-93 on their home court and replacing them at the top of the NBL ladder


    New Zealand has made the largest jump in the latest FIBA basketball world rankings for boys...rocketing up 12 spots to 15th - thanks to the historic fourth place at the FIBA Under-17 World Cup and a second place at the Under-18 Asia Cup.

    BASKETBALL WITH BK's NEW KOREAN FRIED CHICKEN.  WHERE HEAT MEETS SWEET.

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     Other Basketball News
     13 Oct: Breakers coach Petteri Koponen is again exasperated after a fifth loss from six games in basketball's ANBL
     12 Oct: The Breakers have their noses in front after three quarters in their NBL match with the South East Melbourne Phoenix in Auckland
     10 Oct: Athletic New Zealand Breakers forward Carlin Davison is reaching new heights in his NBL basketball career
     09 Oct: Breakers basketball coach Petteri Koponen is hailing his ANBL side's defensive effort in limiting Hawks centre JaVale McGee during their 117-88 opening victory for the season in Auckland
     08 Oct: Business as usual for the Breakers in their first taste of the NBL's new in-season tournament tonight against the Illawarra Hawks in Auckland
     08 Oct: Breakers basketball coach Petteri Koponen is pointing to decision-making as the key to fixing his side's offensive woes in tonight's NBL contest against the defending champion Illawarra Hawks in Auckland
     07 Oct: Australian basketball hall-of-famer Andrew Gaze is pin-pointing what he feels is going wrong for the Breakers in basketball's NBL
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