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The New Zealand Breakers have completed their pre-season basketball campaign with a 90-81 loss to the Kumamoto Volters in Japan

The New Zealand Breakers have completed their pre-season basketball campaign with a 90-81 loss to the Kumamoto Volters in Japan

14 September 2025

The Breaker's roster was heavily depleted, with injury sidelining two imports and illness taking out two others...leaving only seven healthy players suiting up for the clash.

The result was the team's only loss in what has been a dominant build-up to the NBL26 season, after their NBL Blitz win and Friday's victory against the Nagasaki Velca.

The Breakers are now returning home to prepare for next Friday's NBL season opener against the Brisbane Bullets at Spark Arena.

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13 Sep: The Breakers' pre-season basketball tour of Japan has kicked off with a 93-90 win over Nagasaki Velca

01 Sep: A successful two wins from two pre-season for the basketball's Breakers after beating the Cairns Taipans 94-75 in Canberra as part of the NBL Blitz

30 Aug: A strong start for the New Zealand Breakers in their Australian NBL basketball pre-season, beating the South East Melbourne Phoenix 109-to-101 in Canberra

29 Aug: Belief a core of current and former Tall Blacks will help the Breakers solidify their team structure ahead of their pre-season NBL Blitz tournament getting under way tonight

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17 Aug: The Tall Blacks have been knocked out of basketball's Asia Cup in the semifinals, following a 98-84 loss to China in Jeddah

11 Aug: The race is on for Breakers forward Karim Lopez to be fit for the start of the new season in basketball's Australian NBL

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