Yuta Tabuse always watches NBA games, even when he's at a dinner table. And the sought-after dream has not changed at all since then.

News photoYuta Tabuse is in Japan this week working with young players at a basketball clinic. Tabuse, who has played in the NBA, still keeps his pro hoops dreams alive in the NBDL.

The 25-year-old guard said he wants to return to the stage that he has once stepped upon. Tabuse, playing for the Phoenix Suns, became the first Japanese-born player to ever appear in an NBA game.