Motivation can be a powerful emotion in sports. For the Chiba Jets Funabashi, last season's defeat in the B. League Championship final to the Alvark Tokyo has been their motivational force throughout this season. Jets shooting guard Kosuke Ishii admitted as much after Chiba's 96-85, series-clinching ...
The Shiga Lakestars have hired veteran athletic trainer Yusuke Nakayama as their performance supervisor, the team announced on Tuesday. The 36-year-old's professional experience includes working for the New York Knicks and Detroit Pistons as an intern athletic trainer early in his career. From September 2013 to ...
Jeff Ayres scored 17 points and Ryuichi Kishimoto had 16 as the Ryukyu Golden Kings topped the visiting Nagoya Diamond Dolphins 67-43 in Game 3 of their quarterfinal playoff series on Monday night. With the win, the Golden Kings advanced to the B. League Championship ...
As expected, the Chiba Jets Funabashi outplayed the Toyama Grouses on Sunday. The Jets dazzled and dominated in their B. League Championship quarterfinal series-clinching victory, winning 96-85 at Funabashi Arena. Chiba (54-8), which extended its winning streak to 10, never trailed in the second, third and ...
The Nagoya Diamond Dolphins overwhelmed the Ryukyu Golden Kings in the first quarter of Saturday's B. League Championship quarterfinal series opener. The Diamond Dolphins' 21-4 scoring spurt over the first 10 minutes paved the way for a 69-53 victory in Okinawa City. And now the pressure's ...
The Tochigi Brex were locked in at both ends of the court on Friday night. The Brex offense fired on all cylinders in Game 1 of their B. League Championship quarterfinal series against the Kawasaki Brave Thunders. Coach Ryuzo Anzai's club buried 10 of 21 ...
Niigata Albirex BB coach Kazuhiro Shoji has been in an enviable position throughout the season. Since the Albirex opener in October, Shoji hasn't had a legitimate reason to make wholesale changes to his starting lineup. Instead, the names of veteran guards Kei Igarashi and Shinsuke Kashiwagi, ...
Veteran bench boss Zeljko Pavlicevic steered Al-Ittihad to the brink of a potential deep run in the Libyan League playoffs earlier this spring. But the outbreak of violence this month in the North African nation forced the Libyan Basketball Federation on April 6 to suspend ...
The Alvark Tokyo excelled over the final two months of the regular season, elevating their play to match their impressive victory total from their title-winning 2017-18 campaign. Winning 16 of 20 games in March and April, the Alvark completed the season with a 44-16 record. Second-year ...
The race for the final two playoff spots will be determined on the final day of the regular season. Still in the hunt: The Nagoya Diamond Dolphins, Kyoto Hannaryz and Toyama Grouses. Nagoya has a 32-27 record, while Kyoto and Toyama are both 31-28 entering ...
