Dillon Boucher Joins 300 Club
2010 will be memorable for two very special players, Dillon Boucher and Phill Jones, who have given so much to the National Basketball League and their country.
Dillon Boucher played his 300th career NBL game on May 8 against a former team of his the Waikato Pistons. The eight-time NBL champion began his career back in 1994 for the Auckland Stars and has accumulated over 2500 points, 1500 rebounds and 700 steals.
His NBL awards include 2003 Kiwi Most Valuable Player, three time All-Star five selection and 2003 Most Valuable NZ Forward.
Boucher has also had major successes in the Australian League where he won a championship with the Brisbane Bullets in 2007 and was recently named 2010 ANBL Defensive Player of the Year for his season with the NZ Breakers.
Phill Jones will bring up his 300th game in when he plays the Southland Sharks on Tuesday night’s quarterfinal.
Jones began his career for the Nelson Giants back in 1993 and has played all of his 16 seasons with them, apart from 1999 when he played for the Otago Nuggets.
The Reefton Kid has scored over 5,500 points with a career average of just under 19 points per game. During that span, Jones has shot the ball at nearly 40% from beyond the arc, also adding over 1000 rebounds, 700 assists and nearly 500 steals.
Jones won championships with the Giants (1994,1998), is a six-time Best New Zealand Guard Winner, Two time most outstanding guard, Four time NZ MVP and won last year’s Most Valuable Player.
It is hard to forget that both Jones and Boucher were key members in the Tall Blacks side that came fourth in the 2002 World Championships in Indianapolis and have had the opportunity to represent their country in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
Now there will be three players from that 2002 Tall Blacks World Championships Side that have amassed at least 300 NBL games (Pero Cameron 307).
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