page_title: New Zealand Breakers
section_title: Arena history
hierarchical_section_title: New Zealand Breakers / Arena history
caption_attribution_description: English: Spark Arena at night
context_page_description: The New Zealand Breakers are a New Zealand professional basketball team based in Auckland. The Breakers compete in the National Basketball League and play their home games at Spark Arena. The team was founded in 2003 by three Waikato businessmen, Dallas Fisher, Michael Redman and Keith Ward, and remains the only team in the league to compete from New Zealand. The team was bought by Liz and Paul Blackwell in 2005. The couple owned the team until February 2018, when a consortium headed by former NBA player Matt Walsh became the majority shareholders via a newly-formed company called Breakers Basketball Ltd.
  The Breakers are one of two teams from outside of Australia to have competed in the NBL. In 2011, the Breakers won their first NBL Championship and successfully defended it in 2012 and 2013. They re-claimed the title in 2015 before finishing as runners-up in 2016.
context_section_description: North Shore Events Centre (2003–2018)
  Westpac Centre (2003–2004)
  Queens Wharf Events Centre (2003)
  Mystery Creek Events Centre (2003)
  The Trusts Arena (2004–2006)
  Spark Arena (2012–present)
caption: Spark Arena, 2017
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