With an optimistic outlook, the 3x3 PREMIER.EXE begins its fourth season on Saturday.
What's more, the new season tips off with the hope of gaining more recognition and attention after the sport was recently added to the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games by the International Olympic Committee.
"There's been 460 (3x3) tournaments, from fun, amateur-level ones to top-level ones, from Hokkaido to Okinawa, in the last three years," league commissioner Takaaki Nakamura said during a news conference on Friday in Tokyo. "As the game has been included in the Olympics now, we would like to accelerate promoting (our league)."