HISTORIC FINALS DEBUT FOR NZ BREAKERS!
The Harvey Norman NZ Breakers have clinched a berth in the playoffs of Australia’s Hummer Championship NBL for the first time – and fans can catch their first quarter-final game live on Māori Television this Thursday February 21.
Coach Andrej Lemanis’ team has finished seventh after the 30-game regular season and will play in Cairns against the Taipans in an elimination encounter starting at 9.30 PM.
A win in Cairns will result in another sudden death match this Saturday night against the third-placed Bullets, the reigning champions, in Brisbane.
The NZ Breakers remain confident of beating Cairns having won there already during this season.
“It's obviously pleasing to be there as opposed to not being, but for us it’s a case of the job not being done. We want to do well and have an impact on the playoffs, which is where we turn our attention to now,” says Lemanis.
Only Tony Ronaldson and Oscar Forman on the Breakers roster have NBL play-off experience (Ronaldson has been part of two championship-winning teams in the 1990s and Forman won with the Adelaide 36ers in 2002), but that doesn't reflect the side’s collective experience.
“Experience helps and Tony’s been invaluable all year,” says Lemanis. “Kirk Penney has played in big games all round the world as has Phill Jones and Derek Alston, so we have some experience of play-off basketball, just not in the Australian NBL.
“The one is Oscar Forman who won a championship with the Adelaide 36ers, but our guys are experienced and will go all right.”
Māori Television’s coverage of the NBL finals begin at 8.00 PM on Thursday February 21 with delayed coverage of the previous night’s game – the fifth-placed Townsville Crocodiles versus the eighth-placed Gold Coast Blaze at the Townsville Entertainment Centre.
From 9.30 PM, the channel’s commentating team (pictured) will cross live to the Cairns Convention Centre for the quarter-final elimination between the sixth-placed Cairns Taipans and the NZ Breakers.
To accommodate the playoffs, this programming may differ from the advertised schedule. The late night replay of Māori language news programme Te Kāea will screen – with English language subtitles – during the half-time break of the NZ Breakers’ game.
For more brilliant basketball action, tune into the NBL: HARVEY NORMAN NZ BREAKERS on Māori Television this Thursday February 21 from 8.00 PM.coming up ON MĀORI TELEVISION:
ROME: THE LOST CITY OF CHINA – Tuesday February 19 at 8.30 PM
International Documentary, Pakipūmeka ō te Ao: The lost city of Li-jien in China is a settlement that experts believe was once occupied by Roman legionnaires more 2,000 years ago. This documentary investigates the mystery behind its present-day residents and their link to the West.
GANG KIDS – Wednesday February 20 at 8.30 PM
New Zealand Documentary, Pakipūmeka Aotearoa: Four young New Zealanders offer candid accounts of gang life from a child’s perspective – the good times, the hard times, party times, 21sts, going to school, dealing with other people’s fear of gangs and, in each case, how and why they chose a different lifestyle for themselves.
BASSLINE – Friday February 22 at 8.30 PM
New Zealand ’s modern-day musical movement is captured in action on stage – presented by Te Awanui Reeder and Helen Crown. Tonight: Two of New Zealand’s top MCs – David Dallas and PNC – perform in this hip hop double-header from the stables of Dirty Records.
KAI ORA – Sunday February 24 at 7.00 PM
Chef Ann Thorp wraps up the second series of her fantastic food show with Karl Urban and Peter Urlich – she’s cooking ‘party kai’ and invites all her mates over to complete the programme with an all-time classic Māori waiata!
NGĀ AHUREI O TE RAUMATI – Sunday February 24 at 8.30 PM
The finale of the series featuring performances and personalities of New Zealand’s summer festivals. Tonight: Urban international arts festival AK07 showcases a new generation of Māori acting talent as well as top musicians performing alongside the best in the world.
MENDY: A QUESTION OF FAITH – Sunday February 24 at 9.00 PM
Sunday Feature, Kiriata Rātapu: Mendy is a young Brooklyn Hasid, a devout member of an ultra-orthodox Jewish sect whose life has been spent following the strict rules of his insular community. When his sexual urges push him into moral turmoil, he lives the old world in search of a new identity with two worldly friends.
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