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    Veteran centre Dane Pineau is retiring after the Breakers basketball season came to a limp end with a 14-point loss to the Illawarra Hawks in Auckland last night

    Veteran centre Dane Pineau is retiring after the Breakers basketball season came to a limp end with a 14-point loss to the Illawarra Hawks in Auckland last night


    Pineau returned from a meniscus tear to make his 165th NBL appearance...and bows out because he doesn't want to deprive younger players of a roster spot.



    Breakers import Matt Mooney sat out the second half against the Hawks after an angry confrontation with coach Petteri Koponen .

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     Other Basketball News
     03 Dec: Izayah Le'afa unknowingly played through a stress fractured foot in the Tall Blacks basketball World Cup qualifier loss to Australia in Wellington
     03 Dec: Kiwi guard Tai Webster's returned for a third Australian Basketball League stint with the Breakers
     02 Dec: Australia have completed a clean sweep of the Tall Blacks in their two basketball World Cup qualification games
     29 Nov: A glass half full mindset for the Tall Blacks basketballers after letting a chance slip for a rare victory over their Australian counterparts
     25 Nov: Breakers development player Tukaha Cooper has copped a one-month ban from basketball after testing positive for cannabis
     25 Nov: Max Darling will miss the Tall Blacks' basketball World Cup Qualifiers against the Australian Boomers with concussion
     23 Nov: American import Izaiah Brockington doesn't think the Breakers are as bad as this season's Australian NBL record suggests
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