{"id":661678,"date":"2026-05-10T11:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/661678\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T11:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T11:00:14","slug":"new-zealand-national-basketball-league-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/661678\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand National Basketball League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Website-Thumbnail-1.png\" class=\"img-responsive\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Posted on Sunday, May 10th, 2026<\/p>\n<p>                        GAME RECAP: SAINTS VS BULLS<\/p>\n<p>Result: Mills Albert Wellington Saints (126) defeat Franklin Bulls (88)<\/p>\n<p>Wellington Saints delivered a dominant performance at Te Rauparaha Arena, powering past the Franklin Bulls 126-88 after taking control early and never looking back. Elijah Pepper and Donte Ingram led the charge offensively, with Ingram finishing with 26 points, while Carlin Davison, Akech Aliir and Aubrey Chunga added a series of highlight plays throughout the night.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin Bulls continued to compete through the final quarter with contributions from Jace Carter, Carter Whitt and Payton Hughes, but the Saints\u2019 pace and scoring firepower proved too much.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\nLeading Players<\/p>\n<p>Wellington Saints: Donte Ingram (26p, 3r, 4a), Elijah Pepper (23p, 6r, 6a)<\/p>\n<p>Franklin Bulls:\u00a0 Jace Carter (32, 9r, 2a), Carter Whitt (19p, 10a, 4s)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fibalivestats.dcd.shared.geniussports.com\/u\/NZN\/2785431\/bs.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sal\u2019s NBL Box Score<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MVP Votes:<\/p>\n<p>Elijah Pepper (Wellington Saints) &#8211; 9<\/p>\n<p>Donte Ingram (Wellington Saints) &#8211; 8<\/p>\n<p>Jace Carter (Franklin Bulls) &#8211; 7<\/p>\n<p>Carter Whitt (Franklin Bulls) &#8211; 2<\/p>\n<p>Carlin Davison (Wellington Saints) &#8211; 2<\/p>\n<p>Izayah Le&#8217;Afa (Wellington Saints) &#8211; 2<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rapid League game:<\/p>\n<p>Result: Mills Albert Pathways Wellington Saints (33) defeat Oilhub.com Franklin Bulls (32)<\/p>\n<p>The Wellington Saints held on for hard-fought win over the Franklin Bulls in a tightly contested Rapid League matchup at Te Rauparaha Arena. Both teams traded momentum throughout before the Saints made the key late plays to secure the one-point victory.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leading Players<\/p>\n<p>Wellington Saints: Hassan Munir (12p, 4r, 2a) Aubrey Chunga (9p, 3r, 3a)<\/p>\n<p>Franklin Bulls: Brody Perry (9p, 3r 1s), Payton Hughes (7p, 1r, 3a)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fibalivestats.dcd.shared.geniussports.com\/u\/NZN\/2785558\/bs.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rapid League Box Score<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rapid League MVP Votes:<\/p>\n<p>Hassin Munir (Wellington Saints) &#8211; 10<\/p>\n<p>Aubrey Chunga (Wellington Saints) &#8211; 7<\/p>\n<p>Payton Hughes (Franklin Bulls) &#8211; 5<\/p>\n<p>Sam Gold (Wellington Saints) &#8211; 4<\/p>\n<p>Brody Perry (Franklin Bulls) &#8211; 4<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted on Sunday, May 10th, 2026 GAME RECAP: SAINTS VS BULLS Result: Mills Albert Wellington Saints (126) defeat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-661678","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\/661678","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=661678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}