Basketball fans in Japan had a chance to celebrate one of their own on Monday night after the Toronto Raptors announced their signing of Yuta Watanabe to a standard NBA contract.
Because the NBA has eliminated the 50-game limit for two-way players during this season, many thought that the 26-year-old would not get a chance to be promoted to a regular signing before the end of the campaign.
But Eric Koreen, the lead Raptors writer for The Athletic, said that the move has made “more and more sense” over the last two weeks.