Basketball: Injury boost for Breakers

The Breakers are expected to be injury-free against the Taipans on Thursday. Photo / Kenny Rodger

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A fully fit Breakers team could suit up for the first time in 2009 on Thursday when they play the Cairns Taipans in their penultimate regular season game.

CJ Bruton started the year unable to make the team due to an ankle injury, and was not quite fully fit when Kirk Penney had to pull out of the recent road trip. But Penney says he is now fit and good to go - and hopes the rest of the team remains so. He says they have a couple of days between now and the game, and he is hoping they can return to top form.

The Breakers need to win just one of their remaining games to ensure a home game in the first round of the playoffs.

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