New Zealand Basketball pre game celebration appreciation

[Truth200]

I see a lot of people dappin up Malta in this thread... As a Maori who lives and has always lived in NZ I gotta say most of what he's saying isn't accurate.

First off, it's an honour to do the haka, any version. Most NZ sports teams perform it to show respect to the Maori warriors of past. And as someone mentioned it is always lead by someone of Maori descent. It's not a case of stealing culture, but that culture being embraced and the haka is one of the most important things to 99% of Kiwis, regardless of race.

And before this thread gets sidetracked any further I'll add this as a last point, in NZ we currently have our own political party with seats in parliament reserved only for Maori so we always have a voice, and if anyone can show me another government who has admitted wrong-doings to its indigenous people and paid reparations of almost $1 billion dollars I'd love to see it.

On topic: I wish we were even a little bit more competitive, NZ basketball needs all the help it can get

Thank you for clarifying.

 

[All Women Are Queens]

Why are people saying d rose looked shook? He always looks like that.

 

[Truth200]

You'll just have to excuse the ignorance of people like Malta. Here in America, being perpetually upset about dumb shyt like this is a national past time. Most normal people would watch that dance and consider it to be a sign of appreciation and respect towards New Zealand's indigenous groups. Others are just looking to inject race into something in order to be breed racial resentment.

Exactly...

 

[same damn lo sweater]

cool how this site has all types of posters from everywhere. when the malaysian plane went down, there was a pilot dropping info in higher learning

 

[El Bombi]

I applaud the USA players for keeping a straight face.

I would've been to then




I wish KD and LeBron was there for this moment.

 

[dreskii]

AS a person who lived in NZ im and at the same time with the american view of the Haka

Edit: didnt see the discussion on the second page, As a Pacific Islander Growing up In New Zealand i can Also vouch that the Government has done alot for not only the Maori's but also All the Pacific island people(Samoans/Fijian's/Tongans etc)

and if youre wondering why nobody steps to the Haka, last person to do so this happened to him in the very first moment of the game



And this too, too bad the IRB knew shyt was brewing and was threating both teams with harsh penalty's if it went more over than this

haha i'm from Australia -- and when I saw Willie Mason laugh during the haka i knew it was over for him that day.



this is the hardest haka i've ever seen though. NZ soldiers performing the Haka for their fallen comrades in afghanistan.




sidenote.. if i was an alien and i came to invade earth.. and was met with the haka... i'd get right the fukk out of here.


also my two cents on NZ attitudes to their indigenous culture..

compared to AU they're miles ahead.. most Kiwi's I know who live here can even say common phrases in Maori but i literally know nobody who can say things like hello, how are you, sorry in an Aboriginal dialect

 

[ExodusNirvana]

This is pretty cool IMO

 

[intruder]

Only on the Coli could this turn into a race thread

This is the United States, breh. Everything gets spun into a race debate somehow. That's one ting i learned very quickly since living here. No matter the topic they will somehow find an underlying racial connotation (FLOABW) to it.
Sh!t is hilarious how creative they get to make everything a race issue

 

[intruder]

THis is about to be an all-time great GIF on the coli

 

[bzb]

kiwis came out crunk! all....... like they was about to catch some bodies.

rose look like he might've been a lil shook. dude was like....

da beard was confused on some...are going to play ball or is this sparta...

manimal watching like........fukk all that yellin. toss the ball






so the kiwis came out hard like 8ball & mjg and showed they no kool-aid in their veins. they was ready for war....



...but what was the final score after all that yellin and flexin...... ....

 

[unit321]

Well, if you want to see some awful dancing, watch this video.

 

[El Bombi]

Everybody faces

Rudy Gay

Kyrie Irving

Stephen Curry


Derozan

 

[Roadie pipeher]

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[So UnThotful]

kiwis came out crunk! all....... like they was about to catch some bodies.

rose look like he might've been a lil shook. dude was like....

da beard was confused on some...are going to play ball or is this sparta...

manimal watching like........fukk all that yellin. toss the ball






so the kiwis came out hard like 8ball & mjg and showed they no kool-aid in their veins. they was ready for war....



...but what was the final score after all that yellin and flexin...... ....

Lets see the score when Yall play us in Rugby in november . Basketball is like the 4th biggest sport In NZ

 

[42 Monks]

what the fukk is a rugby?