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Speaker 1: How about this. We had our business with the basketball

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Speaker 1: So the New Zealand Basketball League suspended the Indian Panthers

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Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. They were an expansion side.

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Speaker 1: They ran into all sorts of allegations and problems. The

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Speaker 1: CEO of the team is Pavin Batish, who is will

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Speaker 1: us a very good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Mike, I sort of.

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Speaker 1: I don't even know where to start. How can it's

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Speaker 1: all gone so wrong?

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Speaker 2: Look, let me start like just saying, you know, give

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Speaker 2: a big apology to the basketball community, to you know,

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Speaker 2: the Commission, the league and in fact the other clubs,

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Speaker 2: because everyone's been really supportive over the period of time.

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Speaker 2: We've only been going for about eight weeks and it's

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Speaker 2: been a difficult time. We've made them, we've made some mistakes,

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Speaker 2: and you know, a good thing about what's happened is that,

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Speaker 2: you know, the Commission has given us the opportunity to

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Speaker 2: rectify some of those things that we've that we've missed on,

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Speaker 2: and you know what we need to do is we

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Speaker 2: need to get back to the philosophy, the original philosophy

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Speaker 2: of what we were about, which is about developing Indian players,

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Speaker 2: Indian basketball players, giving them the opportunity to play in

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Speaker 2: a mature league like the you know, the New Zealand

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Speaker 2: MBL and play against good players. And that's what we

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Speaker 2: need to get back to. And then what will happen

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Speaker 2: as a result of that is that, you know, the

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Speaker 2: community ties will naturally happen because you know, as we

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Speaker 2: saw in Palmerston, there is a there is a you know,

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Speaker 2: a real opportunity with local communities where our players and

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Speaker 2: the Palmerston players were invited to an Indian gurudwara for

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Speaker 2: dinner and embraced and there was cultural activity at halftime.

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Speaker 2: Those are the things that we can bring, but they're

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Speaker 2: almost like a secondary thing that we need to do.

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Speaker 2: And what went wrong is that we didn't stick to

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Speaker 2: our philosophy of what we should have done, and we

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Speaker 2: made in the stakes, be it a financial or whatever.

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Speaker 2: But we've been given the opportunity to fix loads.

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Speaker 1: When you do, will you be back? And when you

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Speaker 1: are back, is it sorted once and for all one.

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Speaker 2: When we come back, we're going to be much stronger

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Speaker 2: because the pot the positivity around what we can do

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Speaker 2: and what we can deliver is enormous. The opportunities that

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Speaker 2: we have are enormous and that's what we need to

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Speaker 2: deliver on. So those mistakes, you know that the best

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Speaker 2: thing you can do, as I'm sure some philosopher said,

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Speaker 2: is learn from your mistake, put those correct and move forward.

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Speaker 2: And that's what we intend to do. I know.

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Speaker 1: All I can do is wish you the very best

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Speaker 1: with it. Pavin Bettish strange story, though, wasn't it for

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Speaker 1: the way. It's one of those stories that came out

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Speaker 1: of nowhere and he thought, what the hell was going

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