On the Money: Tall Blacks, Neal Barclay, cockroaches, Andrew Reding, Wayne Brown and more...

Well at least that extra legroom on their flight paid off for the Tall Blacks. (Image: David Rowland/Photosport)

Sat, 01 Mar 2025

On the Money is our weekly newsletter of general frippery from the worlds of business and government.OTM is not quite sure why the Tall Blacks couldn’t have just made the lives of their fellow passengers a little easier by stumping up a few extra dollars for more legroom on their recent Air New Zealand flight from Hong Kong to Auckland. The flight was carrying the Tall Blacks and the Philippines’ basketball team to NZ after their showdown in Manila.OTM is also not sure what the justification was for Air NZ staff to then go arou...

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