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Mika Vukona retires after winning 152nd cap in Tall Blacks loss to Australia – Stuff.co.nz
The depleted Tall Blacks were well beaten by Australia’s young rookies, but skipper Mika Vukona left the court a champion.
Tall Blacks great Mika Vukona has called time on his 16-year international basketball career after New Zealand’s Asia Cup qualifying series loss to Australia on Saturday night.
The 38-year-old chalked up his 152nd test – placing him fourth on the Tall Blacks’ most-capped chart – in a 81-52 defeat to the Australian Boomers rookie retinue at the FIBA 2021 Asia Cup Qualifier event in Cairns.
Brisbane-based Vukona was called into the Tall Blacks by his coach Pero Cameron his good friend and former…
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