{"id":306013,"date":"2026-02-28T05:29:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/306013\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T05:29:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T05:29:09","slug":"nz-breakers-to-part-ways-with-coach-petteri-koponen-after-missing-nbl-playoffs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/306013\/","title":{"rendered":"NZ Breakers to part ways with coach Petteri Koponen after missing NBL playoffs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI want to thank the club, the players, and the fans for embracing me. I am proud of the culture we\u2019ve built, and I leave with the highest respect for this club.\u201d<\/p>\n

The news comes after Breakers\u2019 President of Basketball Operations, Dillon Boucher announced plans are in place for a massive overhaul<\/a> in order to make the club a championship contender.<\/p>\n

\u201cPetteri is a young coach on the rise and we support his desire to pursue opportunities closer to home,\u201d Boucher said.<\/p>\n

\u201cProfessional coaching at this level demands immense sacrifice, especially half a world away from home. We\u2019ve reached a mutual agreement that the time is right for Petteri to pursue his next professional challenge.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe departs with his mana higher than ever and will always hold a permanent place within our Breakers wh\u0101nau.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Breakers say a global search will now take place to find a coach to \u201cbuild upon the high-performance culture, and capable of taking the club to the top of the NBL rankings\u201d.<\/p>\n

Only three players \u2013 including import Parker Jackson-Cartwright, and Tall Blacks duo Ruben Te Rangi and Izayah Le\u2019Afa – are contracted for next season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI want to thank the club, the players, and the fans for embracing me. I am proud of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,45621,3392,18836,1320,1566,18321,1866,1437,106,58141,167335,6501,166446,111,139,69,5202,167334,110707,1870,40249,213,61,1955,1533,102,80],"class_list":["post-306013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-announcing","tag-breakers","tag-club","tag-coach","tag-contract","tag-extension","tag-find","tag-global","tag-head","tag-incumbent","tag-koponen","tag-missing","tag-nbl","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-part","tag-petteri","tag-playoffs","tag-search","tag-seeking","tag-sports","tag-to","tag-ways","tag-will","tag-with","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306013","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=306013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}