Denhym Brooke

Club: Taranaki Mountainairs
Position: Forward
Height: 2.03m
Born: 7 July, 1996
Junior Association: North Harbour
High School: Rangitoto College
Highest Representative Honour: NZ U18 Team (2013)

Previous NBL Clubs Super City Rangers (2019)

Following high school Brooke spent four years at college in Hawaii. Initially he attended BYU Hawaii and then transferred to Hawaii at Hilo (both NCAA Division II colleges).
In his senior year at Hilo (2018-19) he averaged 6.9 points, 3.2 rebounds and led the team in blocks with 1.6 per game.

Mitchell Dance

Club: Taranaki Mountainairs
Position: Forward
Height: 1.86m
Born: 22 June, 2001
Junior Association: Hibiscus Coast/Harbour
High School: Rosmini College
Highest Representative Honour: NZ U18 Men 2018

Previous NBL Clubs – Taranaki Mountain Airs (2019)

Mitch played a key role in Rosmini College winning Schick Secondary Schools National championships in 2017 and 2018. He was selected MVP at both championships.

Top scored for New Zealand at the FIBA U17 World Cup in Argentina averaging 15.6 points per game.

In 2019 he played for NZ U18 Men at the FIBA 3×3 Asia Cup in Malaysia.
He has won multiple National age-group titles, firstly with Hibiscus Coast and then Harbour.

Carlin Davison

Club: Taranaki Mountain Airs
Position: Guard
Height: 1.96m
Born: 21 August, 2003
Junior Association: Taranaki
High School: New Plymouth Boys High School

Highest Representative Honour: Named to the NZ Team to contest the 2020 FIBA U16 Asia Cup but event cancelled.

Previous NBL clubs – Rookie

Named to the New Zealand team to attend the 2019 FIBA U16 Asian Championship in Beirut, Lebanon – unfortunately this tournament was subsequently cancelled.

Aged 16 he is the youngest player in the 2020 NBL.

Zach Easthope

Club: Taranaki Mountain Airs
Position: Forward
Height: 2.03m
Born: 1 May, 1995
Junior Association: Tauranga City
High School: Rotorua Boys HS
Highest Representative Honour: U20 NZ Team (2014)

Easthope replaced draft pick Will Heather in the Taranaki squad.
He played for the New Zealand U20 Team in 2014 alongside Tall Blacks Tohi Smith-Milner, Izayah Le’afa, Finn Delany and Jack Salt.

Easthope is consistent ranked in the Top 5 amongst New Zealand 3×3 players. He is a regular on the Quest Tour and has played in numerous domestic and international events.

Plays for Auckland University where he is studying Geography.

Baxter Fenwick

Club: Taranaki Mountain Airs
Position: Forward
Height: 1.98m
Born: 28 December, 1999
Junior Association: Taranaki
High School: New Plymouth Boys High School

Fenwick is studying Marketing at Victoria University, Wellington.

Marcel Jones

Club: Taranaki Mountain Airs
Position: Forward
Height: 2.03m
Born: 2 September, 1985
High School: Mater Dei High School, Santa Ana, California

Previous NBL Clubs – Manawatu Jets (2009 and 2012-13), Wellington Saints (2010), Canterbury Rams (2014, 2016 & 2017), Super City Rangers (2018), Southern Huskies (2019)

A naturalised American Jones graduated from Oregon State University in 2008.

In addition to playing in New Zealand Jones has played in Australia, Germany, Finland, Hungary, United Kingdom, Syria, Bosnia, Romania, Italy, Turkey, Kosovo, Slovenia, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia.

In 2019 he averaged 20.5 points and 11.2 rebounds for the Southern Huskies.

In total he has played 121 games in the NBL spread over 9 seasons with 5 different clubs.

Francis Mulvihill

Club: Taranaki Mountain Airs
Position: Guard
Height: 1.92m
Born: 12 November, 1999
Junior Association: Wellington
High School: St Pat’s Town, Silverstream

Mulvihill played age-group representative basketball for Wellington and Porirua.

He has spent the last 18 months playing at Enderun College in the Philippines on a basketball scholarship.

Joseph Nunag

Club: Taranaki Mountain Airs
Position: Guard
Height: 1.78m
Born: 10 April, 1997
Junior Association: North Harbour
High School: Rangitoto College

In his final year at Rangitoto in 2014 he played on the team that finished third at Secondary School Nationals playing alongside Tai Wynyard and Isaac Davidson.

Nunag becomes the third member of the Taranaki team to have played university basketball in the Philippines. He headed to Far Eastern University, in Manilla, in 2015 and has played the last four years for the Tamaraws.

Oscar Robertson

Club: Taranaki Mountain Airs
Position: Guard
Height: 1.98m
Born: 14 June, 2000
Junior Association: Taranaki
High School: New Plymouth Boys High School
Highest Representative Honour: NZ U18 Team (2017)

Previous NBL Clubs – Taranaki Mountainairs (2018 and 2019)

Robertson played 18 games for the Mountainairs in 2019 before heading to Regis University, Denver (NCAA Division II) for his freshman season in 2019-20.

Played at the 2017 FIBA U17 Oceania Championships in Guam alongside Tom Higgins and Kruz Perrott-Hunt.

Derone Raukawa

Club: Taranaki Mountain Airs
Position: Guard
Height: 1.82m
Born: 24 July, 1994
Junior Association: Tauranga City
High Schools: Otumoetai College/Rosmini College/Rangitoto College
Highest Representative Honour: Tall Blacks – Debut in 2016 (Appearances 21)

Previous NBL Clubs – Waikato Pistons (2013), Manawatu Jets (2014-2015), Southland Sharks (2016-2018), Taranaki Mountain Airs (2019)

Averaged 10.0 points per game for the Tall Blacks at the 2017 FIBA Asia Cup in Lebanon and was also a member of the bronze medal winning team at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

Averaged 9.0 points and 3.3 assists per game for the NBL Championship winning Sharks in 2018.
Raukawa’s season with the Airs was badly disrupted due to injury – he played 13 games averaging 17.2 points per game.

Shane Temara

Club: Taranaki Mountain Airs
Position: Forward
Height: 2.03m
Born: 12 October, 1995
Junior Association: N/A
High School: West Genesee High School, Camillus, New York

Previous NBL Clubs – Wellington Saints (2018), Manawatu Jets (2019)

Played 18 games for the Jets in 2019 averaging 10.1 points and 7.2 rebounds per game.

From Syracuse N.Y., Temara graduated from the University of North Texas in 2018.

Mum Christine was a Syracuse University Hall of Famer (1980-84) before playing six years in Europe.

Kenneth Tuffin

Club: Taranaki Mountain Airs
Position: Small Forward
Height: 1.94m
Born: 5 May, 1997
Junior Association: Wellington
High School: St Pat’s College, Silverstream

Previous NBL Clubs – Rookie

Tuffin graduated from St Pat’s in 2015 and has spent the past 4 years on a basketball scholarship at Far Eastern University in the Philippines.
The southpaw small forward has been a starter for the Tamaraws for the past three-years displaying consistent scoring ability and great leadership qualities. FEU have made the Philippines Universities Final Four in all of his four years on the team.
He is in the Philippines national team wider training squad – eligible for national selection as his mother was born in the Philippines.

He was Head Boy at St Pat’s in 2015 playing First XV Rugby and First XI Cricket as well as basketball, his favoured sport.

Tai Wynyard

Club: Taranaki Mountain Airs
Position: Forward
Height: 2.06m
Born: 2 May, 1998
Junior Association: Waitakere West Auckland
High School: Rangitoto College
Highest Representative Honour: Tall Blacks – Debut in 2014 (Appearances 15)

Previous NBL Clubs – Super City Rangers (2014 and 2015), Southland Sharks (2019)

Debuted for the Tall Blacks in 2014 as a 16-year old against South Korea.

After high school attended the University of Kentucky for two years.

Led the NZ scoring (14.3ppg) and rebounding (9.8rpg) at the 2017 FIBA U19 World Cup in Egypt – he was Top 10 at the tournament in both categories.

Averaged 4.1 points and 3.2 rebounds for the Southland Sharks last season and then played for the Cairns Taipans as a Development Player in 2019-20.

Won the 2015 FIBA 3×3 U18 World Cup playing alongside Matt Freeman, Sam Timmins and Nikau McCullough.

Doug Courtney

Club: Taranaki Mountain Airs
Position: Head Coach

Josh Paurini

Club: Taranaki Mountain Airs
Position: Assistant Coach