Breakers basketball sale: Who are the Grice brothers?

Breakers basketball sale: Who are the Grice brothers?
Leon Grice was director of Rugby New Zealand 2011, the government body established for that year's World Cup. (Image: NZME)
Pattrick Smellie
Out of the blue, two Wellington-based, Christchurch-born brothers are said to have bought the Breakers basketball franchise.Leon Grice and his younger brother, Stephen, are well known in political and business circles, have deep connections to serious American money and have a track record of adventurous entrepreneurial dabbling, assisted by an unusual mix of skills and a deep fraternal bond.Leon’s affably confident strut and square-jawed crooner looks have been a fixture in the nexus between business and government since at least the mid...

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