{"id":365305,"date":"2026-04-05T20:26:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/365305\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T20:26:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T20:26:07","slug":"basketball-nz-win-the-mens-asia-cup-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/365305\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball: NZ win the men&#8217;s Asia Cup for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>picture id=&#8221;4JQLYGA_r8woov2hwfsvnavwskc6_jfif&#8221; crop=&#8221;16&#215;10&#8243; layout=&#8221;full&#8221;]New Zealand and Australia, winners of the 2026 3X3 Asia Cup in Singapore, on April 5th 2026 [Source: fiba3x3.basketball].<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand men&#8217;s 3&#215;3 basketball team have won the Asia Cup for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Te Tuhi Lewis, Christian Martin, Aidan Tonge and Josh Book were dominant on the final day of the tournament in Singapore, completing a 21-16 win over defending champions Australia in the quarter-finals then beating Japan by the same score in the semi-finals, and Korea in the final 21-15.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand finished the tournament unbeaten, having also beaten India and Qatar in pool play.<\/p>\n<p>Lewis, named tournament MVP, was outstanding in New Zealand&#8217;s five matches, averaging 8.2 points per game with his player value percentage at 45 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Martin also contributed strongly, averaging five points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Australia claimed the women&#8217;s title, with New Zealand&#8217;s team of Azure Anderson, Ella Fotu, Eva Langton and Sharne Robat finishing eighth in the 12-team competition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/radionz.us6.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=211a938dcf3e634ba2427dde9&amp;id=b3d362e693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"picture id=&#8221;4JQLYGA_r8woov2hwfsvnavwskc6_jfif&#8221; crop=&#8221;16&#215;10&#8243; layout=&#8221;full&#8221;]New Zealand and Australia, winners of the 2026 3X3 Asia Cup in Singapore, on April&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,47,111,43,139,69,49,46,44,45],"class_list":["post-365305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-audio","tag-current-affairs","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-podcasts","tag-public-radio","tag-radio-new-zealand","tag-rnz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365305","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=365305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}