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Canterbury Rams vs Tauranga Whai — New Zealand NBL

Canterbury Rams

Canterbury Rams

VS

07:30:00

Parakiore Recreation and Sports Centre

Tauranga Whai

Tauranga Whai

Match Facts

  • Venue: Parakiore Recreation and Sports Centre
  • Canterbury Rams home ground: Parakiore Recreation and Sports Centre
  • Tauranga Whai stadium: Mercury Baypark Arena
  • Canterbury Rams founded 1982
  • Tauranga Whai founded 2024
  • League country: New Zealand

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Canterbury Rams

New Zealand NBL

Stadium
Parakiore Recreation and Sports Centre
Founded
1982
Country
New Zealand
Location
Christchurch, Canterbury

The Canterbury Rams are a New Zealand basketball team based in Christchurch. The Rams compete in the National Basketball League (NBL) and play their home games at Cowles Stadium. For sponsorship reasons, they are known as The Wheeler Motor Canterbury Rams.

Tauranga Whai

New Zealand NBL

Stadium
Mercury Baypark Arena
Founded
2024
Country
New Zealand
Location
Tauranga, New Zealand

The Tauranga Whai are a New Zealand basketball team based in Tauranga, Bay of Plenty. The Whai compete in the National Basketball League (NBL) and play their home games at Mercury Baypark. Men's team In December 2021, the Bay of Plenty Basketball Foundation were granted a license to enter a men's team into the National Basketball League (NBL) for the 2024 season. The team was initially named the Bay of Plenty Stingrays. The team was rebranded as Whai in the lead up to their first season and then later officially branded Tauranga Whai. The word whai as a noun means stingray in Māori. As...

New Zealand NBL

The National Basketball League (NBL) is a men's semi-professional basketball league in New Zealand. In 1981, a group of club and provincial teams came together to create a men's national basketball league. The following year, the league was brought under the management of the New Zealand Basketball Federation. The league quickly grew in size and popularity due to the influx of sponsors and American import players. The early 1990s held dwindling fortunes for New Zealand basketball, with red...