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Assistant coaches confirmed for NZ basketball teams

Updated at 6:55 am on 11 May 2012

Former internationals Pero Cameron and Paul Henare have been confirmed as assistant coaches for the national men's basketball team hoping to qualify for the London Olympics later this year.

Former Tall Blacks captain Cameron and Breakers star Henare have been retained to back up head coach Nenad Vucinic for the final Olympic qualifying tournament in Venezuela in early July.

Cameron is coaching the Saints in the NBL and Henare is coaching Hawke's Bay.

Meanwhile, Tall Ferns coach Kennedy Hamilton-Kereama will have some familiar faces around him during the women's campaign. Both Aik Ho and Dean Kinsman assisted him last year at the FIBA Oceania Championships.

The New Zealand women face an Olympic qualifying tournament at Turkey at the end of June.

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