[6] In August 2014, Ili joined the New Zealand Breakers of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL) as a development player for the 2014–15 season.

[8] In March 2015, he became a championship-winning player with the Breakers after they defeated the Cairns Taipans in the NBL Grand Final series.

[17] For the season, Ili was named the NBL Most Improved Player after averaging 9.2 points, 3.1 assists and 2.9 rebounds in 21.5 minutes per game.

On 19 June 2019, Ili requested a release from the final year of his contract with the Breakers in order to pursue more minutes at another NBL club.

[29] Despite a 0–3 start for Melbourne to begin the 2019–20 season, Ili helped the team recover to a 4–4 record after round 6.

[31] Ili was moved into the starting line-up during United's 2–1 semi-final series loss to the Sydney Kings.

[44] Ili made his debut in the New Zealand National Basketball League (NZNBL) in 2012 with the championship-winning Auckland Pirates.

[48] However, he appeared in just 10 games after he was suspended indefinitely by the team in late May following a fight outside a bar in New Plymouth that he and teammates Reuben Te Rangi and Leon Henry were involved in.

[49] The trio were stood down by the team for the second half of the season, and in June, all three pleaded guilty to attacking bar staff.

Ili received a four-month sentence of community detention and was ordered to pay reparation of $750 to one victim and $500 to the other.

[52] The Sharks welcomed back Ili for the 2015 season[53] and he subsequently began to show his athletic prowess.

[59] He helped the Saints reach the grand final, where they defeated the Super City Rangers 94–82 to win the championship.

[60] Ili appeared in 19 games for the Saints in 2016, averaging career highs in points (14.8) and assists (5.5), to go with 3.4 rebounds and 1.1 steals.

[70] In the Saints' season opener on 27 April, Ili recorded game highs of 32 points and 10 assists in a 113–108 loss to the Southland Sharks.

[73] He helped the Saints reach the grand final,[74] where they lost 98–96 loss to the Sharks, despite Ili's game-high 27 points.

[85] He joined the Sandringham Sabres of the NBL1 South for the 2022 season[86] and won league MVP and Defensive Player of the Year.

[91] In June 2015, Ili was named in a 22-man Tall Blacks squad to trial and be considered for selection for the Oceania Series against Australia in August.

[92] A month later, he was named in the final squad ahead of the team's European tour,[93] going on to play in Game 2 of New Zealand's Oceania Series against Australia.

[96] It was later discovered that Ili had played through a stress fracture in his back on the Tall Blacks' tour through China, Europe and the Philippines.

[97] On 12 July 2017, Ili was invited to a six-day Tall Blacks camp in Auckland, ahead of a final 12-man roster being named to travel to the FIBA Asia Cup in Lebanon, via preparation matches in China.

[98] Ili went on to average a team-high 15.5 points, 5.8 assists and 2.2 rebounds for the Tall Blacks during the FIBA Asia Cup, and was subsequently named to the tournament's All-Star Five.

[99] In November 2017 and February 2018, Ili represented the Tall Blacks during the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup qualifiers.

[111] In March 2016, Ili married Morgan Roberts, a former Oregon Tech University basketball scholarship holder.