BIO: Brent Charleton was born in Vancouver, British Columbia (Canada).

NBL EXPERIENCE

Brent Charleton made his NBL debut with the New Zealand Breakers at 23 years of age. He went scoreless in his first NBL game.

With the Breakers still searching for their first winning season, they chose not to re-sign Mike Chappell, the Breakers’ leading scorer from the past two seasons and appointed a new head coach Andrej Lemanis. Lemanis had played in the NBL during the 1980s and 1990s and spent the previous five seasons as a assistant coach with the Townsville Crocodiles.

Lemanis inherited a Breakers squad who had seen both its national team players, Pero Cameron (Gold Coast) and Dillon Boucher (Perth), leave for better opportunities on other NBL team’s.

Lemanis looked to build around its young turning core group, which included Aaron Olsen, Ben Pepper, Lindsay Tait and Paul Henare, who was named team captain with the departure of co-captain Pero Cameron.

Rugged defender Ben Thompson and New Zealand born Adrian Majstrovich (both via Perth) were added to the roster, as was the import duo of Rich Melzer and Brant Bailey.

The Breakers started the season poorly (1-5) and quickly made the decision to replace Bailey (18.3 points, 6.1 rebounds, and 1.9 assists) with Brian Green (18.9 points, 4.3 rebounds, 3 assists, and 1.5 steals).

Melzer (18.6 points, 7.4 rebounds, and 1.7 assists) would lead New Zealand in scoring while the Breakers continued to see strong development from young gun Aaron Olson (17.2 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 3.1 assists) and Ben Pepper (14.6 points, 10.2 rebounds, and 1.3 blocks) was a force inside the paint.

Lemanis’ first season in charge was not particularly memorable. During the season, the Breakers endured a team-worst eleven straight losses, but after making the personnel changes, the team split their final twelve games of the season and finished the regular season tenth out of eleven team’s (9-23). As a development player Charleton would see limited playing opportunities with the Breakers, appearing in only 11 games, averaging 2.8 points, 0.6 rebounds, and 0.4 assists.

2006/07
In his second year leading the Breakers, coach Andrej Lemanis kept much of the previous season’s core, with Paul Henare, Aaron Olson, Ben Pepper, Mika Vukona, and Tim Behrendorff staying on. Dillon Boucher departed for Brisbane, and Rich Melzer was released after signing with the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs. The team added Oscar Forman (via Adelaide), Adam Darragh (via West Sydney), imports Brian Wethers (via Hunter) and Carlos Powell (via NBA D-League).

Key games for the Breakers this season included their opening match on 2 November, a 118–97 home win over Melbourne, powered by Wethers’ 31 points and Powell’s 28, with Charleton adding 3 points and 1 rebound in bench minutes. On 13 December, in a historic meeting with Singapore, Powell exploded for 43 points in a 111–94 defeat, while Charleton contributed 4 points in limited time. Later in the season, Powell delivered a 50-point performance against Melbourne, with Charleton scoring 2 points and collecting 1 rebound off the bench.

On 1 January in Sydney, Wethers sustained a fractured tibial plateau during a 100–89 loss, ending his season and sparking a ten-game losing streak. Pierre Wooten was signed as cover, but New Zealand’s playoff hopes faded. In his second season as a development player, Charleton ( (2.6 points, 0.6 rebounds, 0.1 assists) continued to see limited playing opportunities with the Breakers, appearing in only 19 games.

Powell (28.2 points, 8.2 rebounds, and 4.0 assists) led the offence, with Pepper (15.9 points and 7.8 rebounds) controlling the paint, Olson (12.1 points and 2.5 assists) closing out his final season, and Forman (10.6 points and 5.2 rebounds) stretching the floor. Henare (8.8 points, 3.4 rebounds, and 4.7 assists) ran the offence, while Vukona (5.2 points and 6.2 rebounds) added energy inside. The Breakers finished 10th at 11–22, showing slight improvement from 2005/06.

2007/08
Charleton appeared in only 8 games, averaging 0.6 points, 0 rebounds, and 0.1 assists.while the Breakers finished in seventh place (16-14).

Brent Charleton played three seasons with the New Zealand Breakers. He averaged 2.2 points, 0.5 rebounds, and 0.1 assists in 38 NBL games.