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Corey Webster and Casey Frank had big games in the Tall Black 11 point loss to the Boomers.

The Oklahoma City Thunder clearly have big plans for their Kiwi rookie Steven Adams, making him one of the highest paid athletes in New Zealand sport.

Wellington Saints Basketball is searching for expressions of interest for three job positions for the 2014 Bartercard National Basketball League season to join their winning culture.

Guard Corey Webster led the Tall Blacks with 16 points as they ended their eight-game China tour with an 83-70 win over the local Liaoning club side at Zhongshan on China's south coast. A pair of three-pointers from Webster late in the third quarter helped prise the Kiwis from their rivals' grasp, after they had seen a 13-point lead dwindle to just two soon after halftime.

With Dwight Howard gone and Kobe Bryant injured, Pau Gasol is eager to reassert himself as a leader of the Los Angeles Lakers. Gasol said that he wants, knees allowing, to be the dominant player of old who helped Bryant and Co. win back-to-back NBA titles in 2009 and 2010.

Same scoreline, different result for the Tall Blacks. Skipper Mika Vukona slotted a free throw in the dying seconds as New Zealand edged Cameroon 63-62 in China last night. It was the same score as two days earlier, when China pipped the Kiwis on the final buzzer, but this time the basketball gods were smiling at them as Vukona nailed one of two free-throw attempts with seconds remaining to secure the win in Shenzhen.

Nenad Vucinic's young Tall Blacks team got a tough introduction to international basketball, falling 79-67 to China in Yinchuan, northern China.

Sixteen-year-old Wellington schoolboy Izayah Mauriohooho Le'afa is the bolter in Nenad Vucinic's 13-strong Tall Blacks squad to tour China.

A Wellington Saints invitation team has beaten the Philippines national team 100-96.

The Southland Sharks have advanced to the franchise’s first NBL grand final by stunning hot favourites the Wellington Saints 81-66 at Pettigrew Green Arena.

The NBL'S lucky charm, Lindsay Tait, has declared himself fit and ready as he lines up a seventh championship in Napier this weekend. The 31-year-old point guard is gunning for his fourth straight title, having won in 2010 and 2011 with the Wellington Saints and last year with the now-defunct Auckland Pirates.

The seedings for the Hawkes Bay Final Four have been selected and the Saints will face the Southland Sharks for the second time in eight days.