Past
Basketball didnt reach New Zealand until the early 1900s. By the mid-1930s men’s and women’s indoor basketball associations had been set up in the main cities. The first national indoor basketball tournament was held in Wellington in 1938
Present
New Zealand has one professional basketball team, the New Zealand Breakers, who compete in the Australian National Basketball League (ANBL) In 2001, they defeated Australia in a three-game series to qualify for the 2002 FIBA World Championship in Indianapolis. At the tournament they finished fourth.
Future
I think people that are in the nba might stop playing in the nba and go to the nbl basketball team hopefully for the nz breakers