The New Zealand Breakers are a New Zealand professional men's basketball team competing in the Australasian National Basketball League (NBL). The Breakers joined the NBL for the 2003/04 season (along with the now-defunct Hunter Pirates) as one of two expansion clubs. The club is based in the city of Auckland, New Zealand and split their home games between the 4,400 capacity North Shore Events Centre (NSEC), known as "The Breakerdome" within the NBL, and the 9,300 seat Vector Arena where they play select games against higher drawing teams as well as all finals games due to the higher capacity. They are currently owned by Paul Blackwell, owner of a local Pak'n Save supermarket.
They are the only team from outside of Australia to compete in the National Basketball League. In 2011 the Breakers won their first NBL championship title, becoming the first New Zealand team in any sport to win an Australian-based sporting championship. They successfully defended their championship title in 2012.
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