The NZ Breakers are hopeful of having Kirk Penney back on court as early as a week on Saturday.

Kirk Penney is back after a failed bid to make the NBA but will not play in the Breakers' match against Melbourne on Thursday.

The Breakers are pledging to play their part, but forward Dillon Boucher wants fans to muck in as well.

The Burger King Breakers continue to back Kirk Penney's NBA dream.

The Breakers will be stepping straight into the cauldron when they open their ANBL campaign against the reborn Sydney Kings.

With their first game in Sydney looming large on Saturday NZ Breakers Head Coach Andrej Lemanis is taking his usual calm 'game by game' approach to the new NBL.

With Kirk Penney's status unlikely to be resolved any time soon the questions over the Breakers aren't going to go away.

The New Zealand Breakers are sweating on the return of guard CJ Bruton from injury.

The New Zealand Breakers have had an injury scare ahead of their ANBL pre-season basketball tournament in Darwin.

Tall Blacks swingman Thomas Abercrombie believes he's closing in on his dream of playing in Europe.

The NZ Breakers basketball team leave today for a hastily arranged trip to China to play in an annual pre-season tournament.