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Taane Samuel

Position: Forward

Height: 201cm

Born: 26 April, 1999

Junior Association: Wellington

High School: Scots College

Highest Representative Honour – Tall Blacks (Debut v India, February, 2022)

Previous NBL clubs – Manawatu Jets (2019-20) Wellington Saints (2021-present)

Averaged 16.5 points per game for the 2021 NBL Championship winning Saints team – scored 26 points in the Grand Final win against the Hawks.

Played all three games for the Tall Blacks in the February 2022 FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifying window in the Philippines averaging 8.0 points per game.

Played the 2021-22 Australian NBL season with the Brisbane Bullets.

In 2019 he represented NZ at the FIBA U23 3×3 World Cup in China playing alongside Taylor Britt, Josh Aitcheson and Sam Aruwa.

Averaged 12.1 points and 3.4 rebounds for New Zealand at the 2017 FIBA U19 World Cup in Egypt.

After high school Samuel spent a season playing in Australia and two years on a basketball scholarship in the Philippines playing for De La Salle University.

Tohi Smith-Milner

Kenneth Tuffin

Position: Small Forward

Height: 192cm

Born: 5 May, 1997

Junior Association: Wellington

High School: St Pat’s College, Silverstream

Previous NBL Clubs – Taranaki Mountain Airs (2020), Wellington Saints (2021)

A member of the Saints 2021 championship winning team. Averaged 8.5ppg shooting the 3-ball at a league high 49% (37/75). Scored a season high 17 points against Franklin Bulls in July making 5 from 5 three-pointers.

Tuffin graduated from St Pat’s in 2015 and then spent 4 years on a basketball scholarship at Far Eastern University in the Philippines.

The southpaw small forward was a starter for the Tamaraws for three-years displaying consistent scoring ability and great leadership qualities. FEU made the Philippines Universities Final Four in all of his four years on the team.

Eligible for Philippines national team 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.

Tom Vodanovich

Position: Forward

Height: 201cm

Born: 28 July, 1994

Junior Association: Wellington

High School: St Pat’s Town, Wellington

Previous NBL clubs – Southland Sharks (2018-19), Manawatu Jets (2020), Auckland Huskies (2021)

Averaged 21.7 points per game for the Auckland Huskies in 2021.

Named NBL MVP in 2021 when he averaged 21.9 points and 10.4 rebounds per game as he carried the Manawatu Jets to the 2020 Sal’s NBL Grand Final.

An NBL Championship winner with the Southland Sharks in 2018.

Played all three games for the Tall Blacks in the February 2022 FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifying window in the Philippines. He led the NZ scoring averaging 20.3 points per game.

A member of the victorious Tall Blacks team that defeated Australia in Brisbane in February 2020.

Played in the Australian NBL for the NZ Breakers in 2018-19 and more lately for the Sydney Kings (2020-22).

Played NCAA Division I at James Maddison University in Virginia where he played 120 games for the Dukes (2013-17).

Francis Wineera-Mulvihill

Position: Guard

Height: 190cm

Born: 12 November, 1999

Junior Association: Porirua

High School: St Pat’s Town, Silverstream

Previous NBL Clubs – Taranaki (2020-21)

Played 17 games for the Airs in 2021 averaging 6.6 points and 2.4 assists per game. Scored a season high 14 points against the Hawks in May.

Member of the 2021 U23 National Championship winning Porirua team – named to the Tournament Team.

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

He spent two years playing at Enderun College in the Philippines on a basketball scholarship.

Father Frank and uncle Rick played for the Saints in the 1980’s.