Basketball: Breakers face fine over recruitment

A question mark is hanging over Dillon Boucher's (L) contract status with the Bullets. Photo / Getty Images

The New Zealand Breakers could face a stiff fine if Australian Basketball League commissioner Chuck Harmison finds they have broken rules surrounding the way they had approached two Brisbane Bullets players.

Harmison said he was hoping to speak to both teams today to try to resolve a dispute over the Breakers' approach CJ Bruton and Dillon Boucher with a view to contracting them.

The Breakers are understood to have offered the pair contracts as they believed the players were free agents.

The Bullets said the players were still contracted to their club.

Harmison said there were clear guidelines that clubs should only approach players if they were free agents.

He said there was some debate about which players were allowed to talk with rival clubs following the Bullets' change of ownership.

The Breakers approached the pair believing they were free to talk to any club they liked.

- NZPA