{"id":157903,"date":"2025-11-28T11:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T11:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/157903\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T11:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T11:32:08","slug":"how-to-watch-squads-more-australia-v-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/157903\/","title":{"rendered":"How to watch, squads &#038; more: Australia v New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s the Australian Boomers taking on the New Zealand Tall Blacks, with Tasmania and Wellington hosting a pair of World Cup Qualifiers this weekend. <\/p>\n<p>The games<br \/>\u200dFriday, November 28, 2025 \u2013 7:30pm AEDT \u2013 MyState Bank Arena, Hobart<br \/>Monday, December 1, 2025 \u2013 5:00pm AEDT \u2013 TSB Arena, Wellington<\/p>\n<p>How to watch<br \/>\u200dBoth games will be available live on ESPN. <\/p>\n<p>How to follow<br \/>\u200dThe NBL will cover all games via its social media channels, as well as providing preview and review shows before and after each of the fixtures. <\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\/en\/events\/fiba-basketball-world-cup-2027-asian-qualifiers\/games\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> Live scores &amp; stats<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tickets<br \/>\u200dTickets for the Australia\/New Zealand clash in Hobart are available via <a href=\"https:\/\/premier.ticketek.com.au\/shows\/show.aspx?sh=TASBOOM25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ticketek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the game in Wellington are available via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ticketmaster.co.nz\/event\/24006330B67D3274?fbclid=IwY2xjawNBVuVleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFvNjg2RzhYOGRITjhCQndOAR6KfwkNMSeJoUPVaxTyZ0veklv2T7gjl77AT-7VQpXT6a9Z1MFHv1_ZaICz_g_aem_4OwiVdmkA2gHNcBFMFRUxA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ticketmaster<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The group <\/p>\n<p>Group A<br \/>\u200dAustralia<br \/>Guam<br \/>New Zealand<br \/>Philippines<\/p>\n<p>What it means<br \/>\u200dAustralia and New Zealand face off in Group A of the FIBA World Cup Asia Qualifiers, joined by the Philippines and Guam. <\/p>\n<p>The teams will play two games each across this weekend, before further games at the end of February, then in July to round out the first group stage.<\/p>\n<p>Across four groups, the top three teams from each will advance to the second round. <\/p>\n<p>In all, eight teams from the Asia Qualifiers (including hosts Qatar automatically qualifying) will proceed to the FIBA World Cup in Qatar, which begins in August, 2027. <\/p>\n<p>The squads<\/p>\n<p>Australia<br \/>\u200dAlex Ducas<br \/>Angus Glover<br \/>Ben Ayre<br \/>Dash Daniels<br \/>Elijah Pepper<br \/>Jack White<br \/>Jaylin Galloway<br \/>Jordan Hunter<br \/>Josh Bannan<br \/>Keanu Pinder<br \/>Nick Kay<br \/>Owen Foxwell (injured &#8211; replaced by Ayre)<br \/>William Hickey<br \/>Will Magnay (injured &#8211; replaced by Pinder)<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand<br \/>\u200dCarlin Davison<br \/>Finn Delany<br \/>Flynn Cameron<br \/>Izayah Le\u2019afa<br \/>Max Darling<br \/>Mojave King<br \/>Sam Mennenga<br \/>Shea Ili (injured &#8211; replaced by Murray)<br \/>Taine Murray<br \/>Taylor Britt<br \/>Tohi Smith-Milner<br \/>Tyrell Harrison<br \/>Yanni Wetzell<\/p>\n<p>The coach<br \/>\u200dMelbourne United coach Dean Vickerman will take the reins of the Boomers\u2019 squad in Adam Caporn\u2019s absence.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1764329528_272_690bcc0056be21e70a98dcf8_Updated NBL26 banner.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the Australian Boomers taking on the New Zealand Tall Blacks, with Tasmania and Wellington hosting a pair&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":157904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,139,69,213],"class_list":{"0":"post-157903","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-new-zealand","9":"tag-newzealand","10":"tag-nz","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}