A troubling trend is one of the hallmarks of the 2014-15 Japan men’s pro basketball season. Qualified, experienced coaches are being shown the door at an alarming rate and, by and large, are being replaced by younger, often inexperienced (and cheaper) head coaches. This ...
Rui “Louis” Hachimura is the next big thing coming out of Japan, and many are already paying attention to the 16-year-old basketball player’s post-high school career. In fact, Hachimura, who was born to a Japanese mother and a father from Benin, has publicly stated ...
FIBA secretary general Patrick Baumann repeatedly stated that the Japan Basketball Association’s “lack of vision” is a fundamental problem stunting the sport’s development throughout the nation. During a Thursday morning news conference, Baumann spoke with an authoritative tone about serious issues facing the Japan ...
Patrick Baumann, the secretary general of the International Basketball Federation, indicated Wednesday he would like to settle the issues that resulted in the Japan Basketball Association’s indefinite international ban within six months. Baumann, who met with Japanese Olympic Committee chairman Tsunekazu Takeda, will establish ...
The chaotic situation surrounding Japan basketball seems to only continue to get worse. Mitsuru Maruo, the acting president of the Japan Basketball Association, said on Wednesday that all of the JBA’s 25 board members were going to “eventually” leave the board. A week after ...
It was something everyone expected to happen, so there shouldn’t have been any surprise whatsoever. That, however, did nothing to lessen the gravity of the situation. The Japan Basketball Association was informed on Wednesday that it’d been suspended by FIBA, the sport’s world governing ...
Although nearly a month passed since FIBA’s Oct. 31 deadline for the Japan Basketball Association to present a merger plan for the bj-league and the NBL, among other demands, basketball’s world governing body delivered the expected news. On Wednesday, the JBA, one of FIBA’s ...
The Japan Basketball Association still awaits a ruling from FIBA after an Oct. 31 deadline set by basketball’s world governing body for a merger plan between the 22-team bj-league and 13-team NBL was not reached. FIBA has delayed issuing a ruling. Then on Thursday, ...
Despite facing an expected suspension from FIBA, Japan Basketball Association acting president Mitsuru Maruo insisted that the country’s governing body would not stop trying to address and fix its problems, including the unification of the nation’s two men’s top leagues. Such strong words. But ...
Japan Basketball Association president Yasuhiko Fukatsu announced his resignation from the helm during a Tokyo news conference on Thursday with the sport’s national governing body likely to face a ban from FIBA. Fukatsu said that during a JBA board meeting on the same day ...
Toshimitsu Kawachi, the bj-league commissioner, said that the organizing committee for a unified professional basketball league in Japan has discussed things “constructively.” But he also said, “we don’t know what’s going to happen.” It sounds like the future is still cloudy. But one thing ...
Bob Hill hasn’t coached a game in Japan since March 10, 2011. A lot has changed since then, but a lot hasn’t; for instance, Japan basketball’s systemic dysfunction. And unbeknownst to the basketball world at the time, that night’s home contest against the Akita ...
