Rogers (39) is one of six men on the board which will set the direction of the league, due to enter its 28th season next year.
Rogers is joined on the board by Wellington Rugby Union communications manager Sam Rossiter-Stead, who is chairman, Nelson Giants manager Steve Fitchett, Waikato Basketball Council president Don Jefferies, Basketball New Zealand board member Barry Wilson and Sky Television chief executive John Fellet.
Rossiter-Stead has been appointed as an independent by BBNZ and Wilson is representing BBNZ, while Fellet has been appointed as an independent by the franchises.
The new board will operate the NBL under licence from BBNZ but will contract the administration of the league back to the national body.
Returning the decision-making balance on the NBL board to the franchises was a key finding of an off-season review of the NBL, with owners and general managers buying into the change in September.
Rogers said the board had not yet formally met but would soon. He said the board would set the direction and agenda for the league and where it wants to head.
"We want to be the premier league in the country and help develop Tall Blacks of the future," Rogers said.
The board would look at the big-picture issues for the league.
He said the job would have to make him take off his Nuggets hat during meetings, and look at the league's bigger issues.
He said the first thing was to get the 2009 season set in and organised. A league would definitely go ahead and all 10 teams had indicated they would be there.
Three of four teams were struggling to commit but that happened every year, Rogers said.
Rogers had told the Otago Daily Times earlier this week the Nuggets were one of those teams and had six weeks to secure funding for next season.
The new board has in-depth basketball, business, financial and marketing experience, BBNZ chief executive Dale Stephens said.
Preparations for the 10-team league, to run in the same March-to-June window as the 2008 season, were moving forward, with naming rights sponsorship and television deals in the works, and the 2009 draw to be released within a month.
• The Cairns Taipans confirmed their status as the New Zealand Breakers' bogey team in 2008 with a 101-92 overtime win in their Australian NBL match in Cairns on Wednesday night, NZPA reported.
The Breakers, who trailed for much of the contest at the Cairns Convention Centre, levelled the scores 89-89 with a late charge in the dying minutes but were no match for the home side in the extra 5min period.
Led by centre Ian Crosswhite, who scored 19 points and hauled in 10 rebounds, the Taipans drew clear with a 12-3 run to beat the Breakers for the second time this month.
