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Kirk Penney

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Born
1980 (43 years old)

Birth Place

North Shore

Position
Shooting Guard

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1.96 m (6 ft 4 in)

Weight
100Kg

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Kirk Samuel Penney (born 23 November 1980) is a New Zealand professional basketball player for the New Zealand Breakers of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL). During an outstanding college career with the University of Wisconsin, Penney helped the Badgers to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen in his senior year and two Big 10 conference titles, and was twice named all-conference. He represented New Zealand at the Sydney Olympics and averaged 16.9 points at the World Championships at Indianapolis in 2002. He became the second Kiwi in the NBA when he appeared briefly for the Miami Heat in 2003, and has since played professionally in Spain, the NBA Development League, Israel, Lithuania, Germany and Turkey. He was also named New Zealand NBL Rookie of the Year in 1998 when he helped North Harbour to the grand final.