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Mystro

Years ago

Will sudanese migration make help boomers?

It should never be about race, poor is poor no matter what colour your skin is.
Subsidized leagues and or teams, coaching clinics etc should be available to lower income families so those kids get the same shot as anyone else.

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Bear

Years ago

I have worked with some local Sudanese kids in a program called Midnight Basketball, along with other kids from lower socio-economic areas and it was great to see them having fun, mixing it up on and off the court with no racial issues at all, just kids having fun!

Soccer is something these kids love just as much, if not more than basketball, but for those who are taller and leaner, yes hoops is something they are adapt at and with some training and patience they will be very good at (like any kids with the necessary attributes who want to put in the hard work I guess)...

Thon Maker is very tall and has huge potential at 14-15 years old and nearly 7 feet tall already... I wonder if the age is bona fide? I am sure it has been verified so he plays in the right age group...

Kids will all catch up as they get closer to maturing, I look forward to seeing him play at Nationals for NSW next year...

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Mystro

Years ago

AussieBoomers4Eva: I agree you did say community, my bad

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Mystro

Years ago

Steven Adams half brother Warren Adams who played NZNBL and for the Tall Blacks was the one who pulled him out of Rotorua and got him away from the gangs etc, took him down to Wellington to a lady (Blossom Cameron) who had mentored him and a few other troubled kids successfully over the years. Kenny McFadden was asked by Warren Adams to get him in his basketball program as they had played together at the Saints and the rest is history and hard work.
That was a kids extended family stepping up to the plate not Basketball NZ.

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Mystro

Years ago

you would be quite happy to subsidize them playing Basketball because they may make the Boomers better or should they jump through the same hoops as every other kid?

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Mystro

Years ago

If they want to play Basketball they have the same options as any other Kid or are you trying to say that they should get "special" treatment because they may grow taller than another Kid of different heritage?

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