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The Basketball New Zealand AGM was held today in Wellington where Amanda Cox and Lisa Whyte were elected to the BBNZ Board. Anna Gestro also joined the Board as an elected member. Amanda Cox is the General Manager of WeAreTENZING, a talent and athlete management company specialising in social media. Prior to this, Cox was the GM…

Te Papa hosted the annual Basketball New Zealand Awards this evening, recognising excellence and achievement in basketball for the 2019 calendar year, and was a welcome return after it was postponed last year due to COVID-19. The evening began with a poignant moment’s silence to remember the wonderful contribution Steve McKean made to the game…

A new course for beginner referees has been launched by Basketball New Zealand. This is the first course to be rolled out in support of the new pathways for referees and referee trainers that have been developed following recommendations made last year by the National Referee Appointments and Development Committee to update the pathways to…