Rising attendance figures across the nation and increased media attention were two byproducts of the merger that created the B. League, when the disbanded NBL, NBDL and bj-league joined forces to make this a possibility.And it was necessary to move the sports in the ...
The Kagoshima Rebnise have been behind schedule on salary payments to players and team staff for the entire season, The Japan Times has learned.Interviews with former Rebnise players paint a broad picture of the team’s financial crisis. Last week, American forward Cyrus Tate, who ...
Last week, the Japan Basketball Association and its interim men’s national team head coach Luka Pavicevic announced a 15-man squad for its upcoming exhibition series against Iran in Sapporo.Leading up to the games on Friday and Saturday, the JBA held training camps for 60-plus ...
Star guard Yuki Togashi of the Chiba Jets and twin brothers Kosuke and Joji Takeuchi of the Tochigi Brex and Alvark Tokyo, respectively, headline the 15-man national team roster for an upcoming international exhibition series against Iran, the Japan Basketball Association announced on Tuesday.Led ...
Since his appointment two years ago, Kenji Hasegawa has firmly developed the Japan men’s national team.But with the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo on the horizon, for which the team has not been guaranteed a spot, the Japan Basketball Association made a daring decision. ...
Second in a two-part seriesThroughout 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 past ...
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 ...
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 is ...
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 a ...
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 and ...
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 club ...
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 into ...
