Yudai Baba flew over to start his career in the United States last year with an anything-could-happen mentality.
Yet high expectations for his first G League season soon gave way to the realization that the Toyama native would have a lot to learn.
“I was in a completely new environment, so I went over there trying to prepare myself as much as I could,” Baba, who played for the Texas Legends in the 2019-20 season, told The Japan Times in a recent online interview. “But as I participated in the training camp of the (Dallas) Mavericks and played in a few preseason games, I thought I’d be given playing minutes in the G League.”