Walter Brown

Position: Forward

Height: 190cm

Born: 23 May, 2003

Junior Association: North Canterbury

High School: St Bede’s College, Christchurch

Highest Representative Honour – Tall Blacks Debut: 2022 v Jordan

Previous NBL clubs – Canterbury Rams (2021-present)

Played 14 games for the Rams in 2022 and averaged 7.2 points and 3.3 rebounds per game.

A Development Player for the Tasmanian Jack Jumpers in the 2022-23 ANBL season – played 8 games.

Made his Tall Blacks debut against Jordan in 2022.

He has played his way through the Canterbury age-group teams. A member of Canterbury’s 2021 and 2022 U19 National Championship winning teams.

Troy Baxter Jr. (Import)

Position: Forward

Height: 206cm

Born: 5 March, 1996

High School: Oldsmar Christian High School, Florida

Previous NBL clubs – Rookie

Played NCAA Division I basketball at three colleges. Played his freshman year at Nevada – Las Vegas followed by a year at Florida Gulf Coast University.

Spent his final two years at Morgan State University where he averaged 15.5 points and 4.3 rebounds in his senior year (2020-21) where the Bears advanced to the Mid-Eastern Conference Championship game.

Played in the NBA Summer League in 2021 for the Chicago Bulls then in the G League for Windy City Bulls, Wisconsin Herd, Grand Rapids and Fort Wayne Mad Ants.

Has played in Dominican Republic, Paraguay, Lebanon and Mongolia.

Tevin Brown (Import)

Position: Wing

Height: 196cm

Born: 23 September, 1998

High School: Fairhope High School, Alabama

Previous NBL Clubs – Rookie

Brown played 45 games, averaging 8 points per game, for Fort Wayne Mad Ants in the 2022-23 NBA G League.

He is playing outside of America for the first time in his pro career.

Played 4 years at Murray State University (NCAA Division I) making 124 appearances for the Racers. Averaged 16.9 points and 5.6 rebounds per game in his senior year (2021-22). Named to the Ohio Valley Conference First Team for a third consecutive season.

Played 2 games for the Indiana Pacers in the 2022 NBA Summer League.

Taylor Britt

Position: Guard

Height: 187cm

Born: 22 September, 1996

Junior Association: Canterbury

High School: Papanui High School

Highest Representative Honour – Tall Blacks Debut: 2020

Previous NBL clubs – Canterbury Rams (2015 and 2018-present)

Averaged 12.7 points and 4.4 assists for the Rams in 2022 – scored a career high 28 points against the Saints.

Played 13 games for the NBL championship winning Perth Wildcats in 2019-20 and a further 13 games in 2020-21.

Played all 7 games for the Tall Blacks at the 2022 FIBA Asia Cup averaging 8.1 points and 4.3 assists per game.

In 2019 represented NZ at the FIBA U23 3×3 World Cup in China.

Played 58 games over two seasons at Southeast Community College (2015-17) averaging 11.2ppg.

Jared Burnett

Quinn Clinton

Position: Guard

Height: 190cm

Born: 31 January, 1999

Junior Association: Canterbury

High School: Christchurch Boys High School

Highest Honour – Junior Tall Blacks (2017)

Previous NBL clubs – Rams (2015-17)

After high school, and prior to attending St Mary’s College, California, Quinton had a season with the Breakers (2017-18) as a Development Player.

Spent four years at St Marys (2018-22), including one redshirt year, but due to injury only played 45 games for the Gaels.

An outstanding junior player Clinton represented New Zealand at the 2017 FIBA U19 World Cup in Egypt, averaging 12.1 points and 3 assists per game.

A year earlier he was a key member of the NZ team that defeated Australia to win the U18 Oceania Championship. That team included future TallBlacks Flynn Cameron, Dan Fotu, Taane Samuel and Sam Waardenburg.

Named MVP after leading Canterbury to the title at the 2017 U19 National Championships.

Max Darling

Position: Forward

Height: 196cm

Born: 30 September, 2000

Junior Association: Nelson

High School: Christ’s College

Highest Honour – Tall Blacks; Debut in 2022

Previous NBL clubs – Canterbury Rams (2017-18 and 2021-present)

In an injury disrupted campaign Darling played 11 games for the Rams in 2022 averaging 12.8 points and 5.6 rebounds per game.

Played for Neptune Constanta in the Rumanian League in 2021-22, averaged 10.4 points and 6 rebounds per game.

Previously played for Illawarra Hawks (2020-21) and Vrijednosnice Osijek (Croatia) in 2018-19 and 2019-20.

Darling was New Zealand’s leading rebounder at the 2019 FIBA U19 World Cup in Greece averaging 9.3rpg – also averaged 13.7ppg.

Louie Gordon

Position: Guard

Height: 185cm

Born: 14 November, 2005

Junior Association: Canterbury

High School: St Thomas College, Christchurch

Previous NBL clubs – Rookie

Played for the New Zealand team at the 2022 FIBA U17 Asia Cup in Kuala Lumpar, Malaysia.

Thomas Harrison

Position: Guard

Height: 196cm

Born: 25 November, 2004

Junior Association: Canterbury

High School: Christ’s College

Previous NBL clubs – Rookie

Scored 38 points in the 2023 National Secondary Schools Grand Final against Rosmini College to carry Christ’s College to its first ever national title. Named to the Tournament Team.

Harrison was also a First XI cricketer at Christ’s College.

Kaia Isaac

Position: Point Guard

Height: 185cm

Born: 16 September, 2003

High School: Hunter Sports HS, Gateshead, New South Wales

Previous NBL Clubs – Canterbury Rams (2021-present.

Played 8 games for the Rams in 2022 – scored a season high 9 points against the Tuatara.

Named to Tournament Team at 2022 U19 National Championship, helping Canterbury claim the title.

Played the 2021 season for Maitland Mustangs in the Waratah League averaging 10.5ppg.

Also in 2021 played for NSW at the Australian U20 State Championships.

Cousin of Joe Cook-Green.

Joshua Nickel

Riley Sa

Position: Guard

Height: 188cm

Born: 14 October, 2004

Junior Association: South Canterbury

High School: Ashburton College

Previous NBL clubs – Rookie

An explosive combo guard Sa ttended the 2022 Steven Adams Camp.

Galin Smith (Import)

Position: Forward
Height: 206cm
Born: 29 December, 1998
High School: Clinton High School
Previous NBL clubs – Rookie

From Clarksdale, Missouri, Smith played three years at the University of Alabama playing 94 games. Played his senior year (2020-21) at the University of Maryland where he played all 31 games for the Terrapins.

Played his rookie professional season in Sweden followed by the 2022-23 season in Finland where he averaged 16.3 points and 8.2 rebounds across 41 games for Kataja Basket. Kataja won the Finnish Cup with Smith named MVP.

Aidan Tonge

Position: Small Forward

Height: 198cm

Born: 19 July, 2002

Junior Association: Rotorua

High School: Rotorua Boys High School

Previous NBL Clubs – Rams (2021-present)

Played 11 games for the Rams in 2022.

Currently on a Basketball Scholarship at University of Canterbury.

A member of the Canterbury 2021 U19 National Championship winning team – named to the Tournament Team.

Graduated from Rotorua Boys High School in 2020.

Thomas Webley

Position: Forward

Height: 208cm

Born: 7 September, 2001

Junior Association: Canterbury

High School: Cashmere High School

Highest Honour – NZ U18 3×3 Team (2019)

Previous NBL clubs – Rams (2020)

Played 17 games for the Rams in 2020 averaging 11.3 points and 5.5 rebounds per game.

Following High school Webley has played three years (2020-23) at the University of Hartford Hawks, Connecticut (NCAA Division I)  basketball for the 2020-21 collegiate season. Made 63 appearances for the  Hawks.

Webley was named to the Tournament Team at 2019 Secondary Schools National Championships – he was the leading scorer at the Tournament averaging 31 points per game. He scored 50 points against Tauranga Boys College.

Played alongside Mitch Dance and Marvin Williams-Dunn at the FIBA U18 3×3 Asia Cup in Malaysia in August 2019.

Tautoko Wynyard

Position: Forward

Height: 208cm

Born: 9 September, 2004

Junior Association: Waitakere West Auckland

High School: Rangitoto College

Previous NBL Clubs – Rookie

Like older brother Tai he attended Rangitoto College. Left the school mid 2022 to attend Oak Hill Academy, Virginia, USA playing alongside Dontae Russo-Nance and Nic Book.

Trained with the Auckland Tuatara in 2022 but did not make an appearance.

Corey Webster

Position: Guard
Height: 185cm
Born: 29 November, 1988
Junior Association: North Harbour
High School: Westlake Boys High School
Highest Representative Honour: Tall Blacks – debut 2008
Previous NBL Clubs – Harbour Heat (2009-10), Wellington Saints (2011, 13-14, 17), Super City Rangers (2016), Franklin Bulls (2022)

Webster debuted in the NBL in 2009 when he averaged 26 points per game for the Harbour Heat. In 2022 he played nine games for the Franklin Bulls averaging 25.4 points and 6.8 assists per game.
Webster has won three NBL championships with the Saints and three ANBL championships with the New Zealand Breakers.
He joins the Rams after recently winning the African League Championship playing for Egyptian club Al Ahly Cairo.
Following the 2023 Sal’s NBL season Webster will rejoin the Perth Wildcats where last season he averaged 14.2 points per game.
Played 11 season with the Breakers totalling 236 games – he is 3rd all-time on the club’s scoring list with 2,664 career points.
Webster has played 93 games for the Tall Blacks – led the New Zealand’s scoring at both the 2014 FIBA World Cup in Spain (13.7ppg) and the 2019 FIBA World Cup in China (22.8ppg).
In 2017 he played six games for the Dallas Mavericks at the NBA Summer League.

Judd Flavell (Head Coach

Adam Morgan (Assistant Coach)

Liam Connelly (Assistant Coach)