Basketball is the No 1 "second sport" in the world and Hawke's Bay is bracing for a boom in the code.
"Netball acquired a bit of explosion with extra courts at the Hawke's Bay Regional Sports Park [in Hastings] so if we gain four to five indoor courts we'd be the same," says outgoing Basketball Hawke's Bay general manager Paul Trass.
"We've got every facility we can get in the Bay and we're booked to the gunnel," says Trass of a code that uses the Pettigrew-Green Arena, Rodney Green Centennial Hall, Hastings Sports Centre, Flax Rock and eight other school gym and halls in the province to stage games in a week.
The code hasn't sold the 3-on-3 format here as such but "it'll be scary if it pushes on".
Trass says when the Cricket World Cup was on earlier this year they lost Centennial Hall but still had a 22 per cent growth in the sport.