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Speaker 1: Times that are changing on the sports fields of this country.

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Speaker 1: In just over a year's time, basketball is going to

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Speaker 1: take the top spot in high schools participations, up sixty

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Speaker 1: one percent in the last twenty five years. The number

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Speaker 1: so high that basketball in New Zealand a now reckons

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Speaker 1: were about five hundred courts short school sport in New Zealand.

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Speaker 1: Boss Mike summrules, Well, it's Mike Bey, good morning to you.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Hike.

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Speaker 1: Is it the US thing? Watch the NBA? Want to

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Speaker 1: be like you know whoever?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, look at I think it could be. I think

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Speaker 2: you know, you look at the youth today and the

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Speaker 2: access to those types of streaming opportunities, and you watch

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Speaker 2: the NBA and on why wouldn't you want to go there?

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Speaker 1: It's also to be fair, it's communal. You can play

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Speaker 1: it seriously or for fun. It's pick up, it's organized,

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Speaker 1: it's men, it's women, it's everything. It's the complete sport

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Speaker 1: if you think about it, isn't it?

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Speaker 2: I agree? Yeah? I think Basketball are doing a great

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Speaker 2: job to make to get basketball accessible at their hoops

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Speaker 2: and schools programs. It's working really well and the numbers

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Speaker 2: are showing it.

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Speaker 1: And it's cheap to participate and you need some shoes,

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Speaker 1: maybe a ball, and that's you done.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it as pure as form absolutely, you know, just

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Speaker 2: just get hope. And they're doing really well. They're getting

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Speaker 2: hoops around the country. I think the costs to seem

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Speaker 2: to build as you get more formal with your participation.

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Speaker 2: But that's a problem for every sport.

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Speaker 1: How does this get organized When schools or sports or

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Speaker 1: groups see something unfolding i e. A popularity, who triggers

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Speaker 1: the stuff that needs to happen to make it grow

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Speaker 1: even more, i e. Courts and facilities.

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Speaker 2: I think that's a that's a big council conversation. Schools

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Speaker 2: have got great facilities and they can cater for the

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Speaker 2: smaller games, but when you look at the national competitions,

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Speaker 2: be it school sport or youth sport, they're getting bigger

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Speaker 2: and bigger, and the facilities that we have are absolutely

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Speaker 2: maxed out. And you add more sports on top, because

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Speaker 2: I mean basketball is having a great time right now

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Speaker 2: that volleyball are doing exactly the team are trying to

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Speaker 2: use the same court space, and these big conversations and

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Speaker 2: sport for our planners and well, I think we know

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Speaker 2: how important sport is in the lives of everybody, not

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Speaker 2: just you, and we want we want, we want these

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Speaker 2: games to be played indoors, that seems and it's hard

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Speaker 2: to come by.

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Speaker 1: And good that we're out in exercise and given the

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Speaker 1: health servo we just did and half of us don't

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Speaker 1: even exercise, so we get out and do something productive

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Speaker 1: for ourselves. That's no bad things. Appreciate it. Mike Mike

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Speaker 1: summerl school Sport, New Zealand CEO. I was selected for

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Speaker 1: the first five basketball team at Lynwood High School at

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Speaker 1: in form three. It was unheard of at the time.

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Speaker 1: And further, did you have an early growth spurt or

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Speaker 1: something I knew that was coming. And further, I was, indeed, yes,

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Speaker 1: the smallest person on the team, but I was a

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Speaker 1: shooting guard from outside. I was I was three point Hosking.

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Speaker 1: They called me Stephan Hosking. That was actually before Stephan

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Speaker 1: was even heard of. That's how long we go or

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