{"id":616512,"date":"2026-04-19T05:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616512\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T05:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T05:52:12","slug":"new-zealand-national-basketball-league-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/616512\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand National Basketball League"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Posted on Sunday, April 19th, 2026<\/p>\n

Game Recap: Rams v Saints<\/p>\n

Result: Wheeler Motor Company Canterbury Rams (111) defeat Mills Albert Wellington Saints (89)<\/p>\n

After a dominant showing against the Jets, the Mills Albert Wellington Saints would be a tough team to tame for the Rams who just came off a scrappy win against the Nelson Giants last week. With a week of training under their belt, they put that time to use and developed exponentially. The reigning champions looked lost on defence as Taylor Britt did what he want and capaitlised on every gap the Saints were leaving. Tamerang Choh also produced at a high level compared to his first game of the season. The energy at the Rams’ new home court provided and Canterbury would smother the Saints, never giving them a glance at a win. Five Rams played would finish with 15+ points, with Choh leading the way with 28. Britt chipped in 8 assists to bring his season average up to 8.5. The floor general showcasing his ability.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Canterbury Rams: Tamenang Choh (28p, 8r, 3a), Walter Brown (21p, 13r, 3a), Taylor Britt (17p, 8a)

\nWellington Saints: Elijah Pepper (23p, 5r, 6a), Donte Ingram (20p, 4r, 3a), Carlin Davison (17p, 7r, 7a)<\/p>\n

Sal\u2019s NBL Box Score<\/a><\/p>\n

MVP Votes:

\nTamenang Choh (Rams) – 10

\nWalter Brown (Rams) – 8

\nElijah Pepper (Saints) – 3

\nDontae Ingram (Saints) – 3

\nTaylor Britt (Rams) – 2

\nCarlin Davison (Saints) – 2

\nTodd Withers (Rams) – 2<\/p>\n

Rapid League game:

\nResult: The Mad Butcher Canterbury Rams (17) are defeated by the Mills Albert Wellington Saints (27)<\/p>\n

The name of the game to start was defence. Both teams put an emphasis on pressuring their opposition and as such, it’d be a low scoring half. The Mills Albert Wellington Saints would take an early 8-5 lead and then hold the home team to 0 points in the second. It was a smothering effort, led by Aubrey Chunga who scored a game high 7 points in route to an easy 27-17 win.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Leading Players

\nCanterbury Rams: Brody Cooper (5p)

\nWellington Saints: Aubrey Chunga (7p, 2b), Alex Blackmore (6p, 4r)<\/p>\n

Rapid League Box Score<\/a><\/p>\n

Rapid League MVP Votes:

\nAubrey Chunga (Saints) – 10

\nHassan Munir (Saints) – 6

\nBrody Cooper (Rams) – 5

\nAlex Blackmore (Saints) – 4

\nDarius Latu (Saints) – 3

\nMana Martin (Rams) – 1

\nTony Worthington (Rams) – 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted on Sunday, April 19th, 2026 Game Recap: Rams v Saints Result: Wheeler Motor Company Canterbury Rams (111)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":616513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-616512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616512","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=616512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/616512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/616513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=616512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=616512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=616512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}