All 47 clubs of the NBL, NBDL and bj-league, including expansion teams for the 2015-16 season, are scheduled to join the new men's basketball league in Japan in 2016. The Japan 2024 Task Force made the announcement in Tokyo on Tuesday.
With six teams, including all of the NBL's corporate clubs, such as the Toyota Alvark and Toshiba Brave Thunders, submitting their application documents to the task force on the day, a total of 46 teams have completed the process.
The Tokyo Marine Nichido Big Blue are the only team that has not turned in its paperwork. But task force officials said that the NBDL club was likely to follow the others soon. The application period will close at the end of this month.