Opal Hardy-Pearce, left, and mum Harriet Hardy will play together for Taranaki. But Harriet Hardy will play alongside daughter Opal in the Taranaki Thunder’s D-league basketball team in national four-day competition starting in Auckland on Thursday. Opal played for the Thunder during the team’s championship-winning season and when she and a friend dragged Harriet along to the trials, she thought it was a joke. “I guess that the joke is on me now as I’m playing in the team,” she laughed. Taranaki Thunder D-League draw: Thursday, August 12: Taranaki Thunder v Northland, 2pm; Friday, August 13: Taranaki Thunder v Auckland, 1pm; Saturday, August 14: Taranaki v Harbour Cyclones, 9am; Sunday, August 15: Play offs from 9am; D-League final, 3pm (Sky Sport 8)

Source: Stuff August 11, 2021 03:33 UTC