Second in a two-part series Throughout its rocky 11-season history, mismanagement was often at the heart of the bj-league’s biggest problems. The league grew so fast (from six to eight to 10 to 12 to 13 to . . . eventually 24 teams this ...
Swiss IOC member Patrick Baumann on Friday was elected president of SportAccord, an umbrella group of more than 90 Olympic and non-Olympic sports federations. Baumann, the secretary general of FIBA, basketball’s world governing body, defeated Russia’s Anna Arzhanova 55-25 in Friday’s vote. Arzhanova heads ...
The Kanazawa Samuraiz are a solid team in the final year of the bj-league’s 11-season existence. They also happen to be a brand new team. Their 26-20 record through Sunday has been impressive, especially considering the fact that the entire landscape of Japanese basketball ...
Yuko Mitsuya is set to succeed Saburo Kawabuchi as chairman of the Japan Basketball Association, sources said Friday. Mitsuya, 57, is currently second-in-command to the 79-year-old Kawabuchi, who hinted last May that he would step down after one year on the job. Mitsuya won ...
With the Olympic men’s basketball qualifying tournaments set for July, Japan national head coach Kenji Hasegawa assembled 27 players from the NBL, bj-league and college ranks for a two-day training camp that started Monday. Most of the players were still fatigued from regular-season games ...
Japan hasn’t really appeared on the global map in basketball’s conventional five-man game. But when it comes to the 3×3 game, which basketball governing body FIBA is keen to promote worldwide, Japan is playing significant role. FIBA has run the World Tour circuit, the ...
Japanese basketball marked an unprecedented dark year in 2015 as its national governing body was suspended by FIBA. It was a tough penalty handed down in November 2014. But now its leaders are attempting to take advantage of the chance to develop the sport ...
Serbia’s legendary basketball coach Ranko Zeravica, who with the former Yugoslavia won the 1970 FIBA World Championship, has died on Thursday at age 84, state-run RTS television reported. Zeravica, whose coaching carrier spanned over 50 years and who contributed significantly to the development of ...
There is no one-size-fits-all formula — no magic pill exists — for the Japan Basketball Association to create a new men’s pro hoop circuit that will become an instant success. The sheer size of the B. League, the 45-team, three-division league is a real ...
Lithuania beat Serbia 67-64 on Friday to advance to the final of the FIBA European Basketball Championship and clinch a slot at next year’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. In its second consecutive final, Lithuania will play Spain on Sunday after ending Serbia’s unbeaten ...
Sharp-shooter Keijuro Matsui nailed four 3-point shots and scored 18 points in the second quarter alone to boost the Japan men’s team to a 75-61 victory over the Czech Republic on Sunday at Yoyogi National Gymnasium Annex. Team Japan wrapped up the three-game exhibition ...
On Friday, the Japan men’s national team played its first official international contest since FIBA’s suspension of the Japan Basketball Association was officially lifted last Sunday. The result? Japan fell 68-66 to the Czech Republic in an exhibition match at Chiba Port Arena. Japan ...
