NZ Breakers majority owner Marc Mitchell at Queenstown’s Ayrburn last weekQueenstown's clearly on the radar of the New Zealand Breakers basketball franchise’s new majority owner. Kiwi-American businessman and lawyer Marc Mitchell last year bought the Auckland-based franchise along with several Kiwi investors and pledged to enhance its ‘‘NZness’’. Now Auckland-based, ‘‘I’ve been coming to NZ for over 20 years because my wife is a citizen,’’ he says. ‘‘Our family, our kids, we’ve skied here, we’ve been here in wintertime, summertime, every version of everything’’. As to whether he’s bought property here, ‘‘not yet, but we’ll see, we always enjoy our time in this region’’.

Source: Otago Daily Times February 14, 2026 15:51 UTC