The three-time Olympian will be on the mic calling all the action when men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams loaded with the finest Indigenous talent in the country take on New Zealand\u2019s Poitukohu Maori Aotearoa in a NAIDOC Week double-header at Cairns Basketball Association.<\/p>\n
George, who recently announced she\u2019d fallen pregnant, will commentate the games alongside former Cairns Taipans\u2019 stalwart Alex Loughton and said the event held deep personal meaning.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m married into an Indigenous family,\u201d George, whose husband Kailou is a Torres Strait Islander, said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy daughter Pearl and baby to be are of Indigenous heritage and so I\u2019ll do everything I can to make sure they\u2019ve got an understanding of their identity and who they are and the history of Indigenous culture here in Australia.\u201d<\/p>\n
George said the games were bigger than basketball and pointed to the likes of Shaneice Swain, the McDowell-White siblings and Taryn Bond as examples of the depth of Indigenous talent in the sport.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese games bring a level of platform,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s really important that games like this happen, just to make sure the next generation of Indigenous kids can see, \u2018Hey, I can do this too, I can be this too\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt also brings an element of celebrating culture, which I think is so incredibly important and special.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The three-time Olympian will be on the mic calling all the action when men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams loaded…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784092,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-784091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=784091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784091\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=784091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=784091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=784091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}