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Breakers centre Rob Loe will join his team-mates in Melbourne several weeks ahead of schedule to prepare for NBL 2021.
Mother Nature keeps to no-one’s schedule and in the case of the arrival of Breakers big man Rob Loe’s first baby, the timeline has been reset firmly in the team’s favour. Loe’s wife, Kelly, had their first baby boy in Auckland several weeks ahead of schedule, which means the experienced centre will be able to join his Breakers team-mates in Melbourne in plenty of time to play a full part in the team s NBL pre-season campaign.
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Tom Abercrombie s family will be in Melbourne as the Breakers look to make players as comfortable as possible.
It may sound incongruous given what they’re about to step into, but Breakers coach Dan Shamir feels a comforting sense of assurance about the group he will assemble in Australia on Sunday to pursue an NBL championship like no other. In many ways the Auckland-based Australian NBL club will take a large step outside their comfort zone as they spend what will be at least the first half of the season based in Melbourne and playing all their games on that side of the Tasman.