Japan's men's basketball team is on the right track to earn a spot at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, FIBA task force co-chairman Ingo Weiss told a news conference on Sunday.
Weiss stressed that the Japan Basketball Association has fully lived up to the expectations of the Japan 2024 task force, which was formed in the wake of the JBA's November 2014 suspension for poor governance.
One of the biggest changes to come as a result of the task force was a merger of the two top men's leagues — the National Basketball League and bj-league — into the B. League, which launched in 2016. Another was the development of the men's national team, which has not competed at the Olympics since the 1976 Games in Montreal.