{"id":158470,"date":"2025-09-21T09:01:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158470\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T09:01:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T09:01:14","slug":"basketball-nz-breakers-slump-to-second-straight-anbl-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/158470\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball: NZ Breakers slump to second straight ANBL loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Izaiah<\/p>\n

\nIzaiah Brockington led the scoring for the Breakers.
\nPhoto: LUKAS COCH\/PHOTOSPORT\n<\/p>\n

NZ Breakers have suffered their second loss of the new Australian NBL season, thumped 114-82 by Melbourne United.<\/p>\n

A rough to start to their new campaign, with two round-one losses, was compounded this time by their total inability to counter a dominant United side.<\/p>\n

The Breakers lost their first match of the new season to Brisbane Bullets on Friday<\/a>, while they were outplayed in that match, it was much worse against Melbourne.<\/p>\n

They certainly missed star Sam Mennenga, who was ruled out of the clash, after being concussed in the Bullets match.<\/p>\n

The Breakers were down 34-15 after the first quarter, 55-33 at halftime and 89-55 after the third quarter.<\/p>\n

United generated many of their points from pressure from their fastbreaks, after forcing rebounds and turnovers, with Dutchman Jesse Edwards the big star, scoring 22 points.<\/p>\n

American Izaiah Brockington led the Breakers scoring with 21 points, while centre Rob Baker II scored 17.<\/p>\n

They next host Perth Wildcats next Saturday.<\/p>\n

Sign up for Ng\u0101 Pitopito K\u014drero, a daily newsletter<\/a> curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n

The Breakers’ next match is against the Perth Wildcats in Auckland on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Izaiah Brockington led the scoring for the Breakers. Photo: LUKAS COCH\/PHOTOSPORT NZ Breakers have suffered their second loss…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,1590,63,726,1589,44,1591,1588,1586,1587,85],"class_list":["post-158470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-audio","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-current-affairs","tag-news","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}