The NBA is on the mind of one Christchurch-based American basketballer.
But before McKenzie Moore heads to the US, he has a chance to help the Canterbury Rams to their first championship in decades.
"When you grow up, everybody playing basketball wants to play in the NBA, so to that opportunity I'm blessed and grateful," he says.
In just two weeks the 24-year-old is off to try his luck in NBA mini-camps, with the Brooklyn Nets and the Dallas Mavericks.
"I just need to go and be confident, show them I've done the hard work and play hard," Moore says.
Since joining the Rams in April, Moore has been a game-changer -- he's helped the side to 10 wins and just two losses as they won the regular season for the first time since 1993.
They haven't won the championship for nearly a quarter of a century, when the Rams were a big deal.
Former Tall Blacks guard and one-time NBA hopeful Mark Dickel is the Rams' coach.
"We've got a lot of players who weren't even born back in the 1980s Dutchie Rademakes era," he says. "They wouldn't even know the reference to those players."
"We've seen what they've done in the past but we are here in 2016," says Rams forward Marcel Jones.
"This is different -- we have to go out and compete."
This weekend they'll venture to Invercargill for the 'final four' play-offs, starting with Auckland's Super City Rangers on Friday night.
"We've had some luck and hopefully this week we get some and go the whole way," Dickel says.
It'd be some comeback for a team that only rejoined the league in 2014.
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