Basketball: New Tall Blacks

Ben Hill, son of former national team legend Stan, and United States based college student Jeremiah Trueman are the new faces in the Tall Blacks to play Australia.

Hill, 27, and Trueman, 19, join what is otherwise an experienced international roster of 14 that will be further cut by two before the return games against the Boomers and the build-up to the World Championships in August.

The squad to play Australia next week in Napier is: Dillon Boucher (Auckland/Brisbane), Craig Bradshaw (Winthrop University USA), Pero Cameron (Banvitspor), Mark Dickel (Lokomotiv Rostov), Casey Frank (Auckland/Wollongong), Paul Henare (Hawkes Bay/Breakers), Phill Jones (Cantu, Italy/Nelson), Aaron Olson (NZ Breakers), Kirk Penney (Maccabi Tel Aviv), Tony Rampton (Taranaki/Wollongong), Mika Vukona (Nelson/Breakers), Jeremiah Trueman (San Diego Christian College), Ben Hill (Waikat), Paora Winitana (Hawkes Bay).