Illness has prevented Breakers Gary Wilkinson, Dillon Boucher and Dion Prewster from training today ahead of Friday night's second finals series basketball match against the Wildcats in Perth.
In the end they didn't need him. No Abercrombie, no worries. Well, not too many.
Thomas Abercrombie could smile today in the knowledge he could be fit to play for the Breakers in the Australian NBL finals series against Perth which starts in Auckland on Thursday.
The New Zealand Breakers will shoot for back-to-back NBL titles after downing the Townsville Crocodiles 97-80 in Auckland.
History never repeats - except for the New Zealand Breakers.
If they didn't face enough challenges already, the Breakers might have to be without Cedric Jackson for Thursday night's must-win match against Townsville.
The Townsville Crocodiles have a great chance of knocking the top-seeded New Zealand Breakers out of the NBL finals after an upset 99-82 first semi-final victory in Auckland.
The Breakers might be the best team in the Australian National Basketball League but it counted for little as they were overlooked for most of the major gongs at the annual awards dinner in Melbourne last night.
The Breakers were unable to match last season's 22-6 regular season record after going down 94-71 to the Blaze on the Gold Coast tonight.
New Zealand have clinched the NBL minor premiership, but the scramble for the other finals places continues with the Queensland teams showing plenty of fight.
The Breakers all but wrapped up the NBL's minor premiership with a heart-stopping 101-99 overtime win over the Wildcats in Perth last night.
When Tom Abercrombie is in the form he showed last night he feels unstoppable, which is a good thing for the Breakers because they'll soon need him to be.
A Dillon Boucher toe injury on the eve of a crucial re-match against the Wollongong Hawks is testing the depth of the New Zealand Breakers' power forwards.
The New Zealand Breakers are playing hardball with teammate BJ Anthony and have imposed a 10-day suspension on the forward after he turned up to training hungover.
The Breakers will have to do something they haven't done for some time this week - pack their bags.
Another day, another double-digit win for the Breakers - this title defence is starting to seem rather easy.
The Breakers have their eyes on back-to-back ANBL titles but they are already in planning mode for next season and want to retain their entire squad for the next campaign.
A perfect storm of circumstances saw the Breakers return to the top of the Australian NBL after terrorising the Melbourne Tiger to the tune of a 14-point win tonight.
The New Zealand Breakers out-shot and out-rebounded the Adelaide 36ers on the way to a dominant 80-63 win in their NBL match in Auckland last night.
The New Zealand Breakers moved to equal first on the NBL ladder after a 90-79 win over the Melbourne Tigers last night.
