DateRHjemme v Borte-
05/01 07:30 6 Hawke’s Bay Hawks v Whai View
05/02 07:30 6 Canterbury Rams v Otago Nuggets View
05/03 07:30 6 Southland Sharks v Nelson Giants View
05/04 04:00 6 Taranaki Steelformers Airs v Franklin Bulls View
05/04 07:30 6 Auckland Tuatara v Hawke’s Bay Hawks View
05/05 03:00 6 Otago Nuggets v Nelson Giants View
05/05 06:00 6 Manawatu Jets v Wellington Saints View
05/08 07:30 7 Whai v Otago Nuggets View
05/09 07:30 7 Canterbury Rams v Taranaki Steelformers Airs View
05/10 07:30 7 Franklin Bulls v Southland Sharks View
05/11 04:00 7 Hawke’s Bay Hawks v Otago Nuggets View
05/11 07:30 7 Auckland Tuatara v Manawatu Jets View
05/12 03:00 7 Taranaki Steelformers Airs v Southland Sharks View
05/12 06:30 7 Wellington Saints v Nelson Giants View
05/15 07:30 8 Hawke’s Bay Hawks v Franklin Bulls View
05/16 07:30 8 Otago Nuggets v Auckland Tuatara View
05/17 07:30 8 Canterbury Rams v Whai View
05/18 04:00 8 Southland Sharks v Auckland Tuatara View
05/18 07:30 8 Taranaki Steelformers Airs v Manawatu Jets View
05/19 03:00 8 Franklin Bulls v Wellington Saints View
05/19 06:30 8 Nelson Giants v Whai View
05/22 07:30 9 Taranaki Steelformers Airs v Hawke’s Bay Hawks View
05/23 07:30 9 Whai v Canterbury Rams View
05/24 07:30 9 Auckland Tuatara v Nelson Giants View
05/25 04:00 9 Southland Sharks v Otago Nuggets View
05/25 07:30 9 Wellington Saints v Canterbury Rams View
05/26 03:00 9 Manawatu Jets v Whai View
05/26 06:30 9 Franklin Bulls v Nelson Giants View
05/29 07:30 10 Whai v Wellington Saints View
05/30 07:30 10 Nelson Giants v Hawke’s Bay Hawks View

The New Zealand National Basketball League (NZNBL) is a men's semi-professional basketball league in New Zealand.

History

The 1980s ushered in a period of exceptional growth and popularity for basketball in New Zealand. Late in 1981, six men's teams – a mixture of club and provincial representative sides – went out alone and created an inaugural national league. It was enough of a success to come under the control of the New Zealand Basketball Federation the following year, when it grew in size and secured a naming sponsor. An allowance of two imported players (invariably Americans with college basketball experience) per team, and the fact that games were played in the evening indoors, helped turn the league into a new family entertainment option. Spectators filled gymnasiums and media coverage reached unprecedented levels. The early 1990s held dwindling fortunes for New Zealand basketball and many teams in the NZNBL, with reduced TV coverage, sponsorships, and crowd numbers. With the success of the Tall Blacks at the 2002 FIBA World Championship and the introduction of the New Zealand Breakers in the Australian NBL in 2003, basketball in New Zealand rose in popularity again.

The number of teams each season has constantly changed since the league's inception, with many promotions and relegations between the first division and second division during the 1980s and 1990s, as well as many withdrawals due to financial reasons. The league began with 8 teams in 1982, then peaked at 13 teams in 1995, before dropping to a low of 7 in 2016. In 2019, the Southern Huskies from Tasmania became the first ever Australian team to join a New Zealand competition. The league returned to 7 teams in 2020 following a revised small-scale format due to the coronavirus pandemic. In 2022, the league was hailed for reaching competitive balance after years of unbalanced competition, with evenly spread talent and resources across the ten teams.

**Ny-Zealands NBL**

Den nasjonale basketball-ligaen i Ny-Zealand (NBL) er den høyeste ligaen for lagbasert basketball i landet. Den ble grunnlagt i 1982 og består av ti lag fra hele landet. Sesongen varer fra april til august, med hvert lag som spiller 20 kamper i ordinær sesong. De fire beste lagene går videre til sluttspillet, som er en dobbel eliminasjonsturnering.

NBL er en av de sterkeste basketballligaene i Stillehavet, og har produsert mange spillere som har gått videre til å spille i NBA og andre store ligaer. Ligaen er kjent for sin høye konkurranse og spennende kamper.

Noen av de mest kjente lagene i NBL inkluderer:

* Auckland Tuatara
* Canterbury Rams
* Wellington Saints
* Otago Nuggets
* Nelson Giants

NBL er en viktig del av basketballkulturen i Ny-Zealand, og den har spilt en stor rolle i utviklingen av sporten i landet. Ligaen har produsert mange talentfulle spillere og har gitt et spennende og underholdende produkt for fans over hele landet.