Pearce gives Jets player Brandon Jenkins some advice during an NBL game in 2015. ThenMiles Pearce spent most of his career with the Manawatu Jets but he came south for two years and made a big impression for the now defunct Otago Nuggets. Otago Nuggets centre Miles Pearce scores against the Bay Hawks at the Lion Foundation Arena in Dunedin in 2007. Pearce played 35 games for the Nuggets. NowThe 38-year-old retired from playing about "five or six years ago" and is now coaching and working for the Jets.

Source: Otago Daily Times January 12, 2017 17:24 UTC