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Yokohama B-Corsairs win Japan’s BJ title
The Yokohama B-Corsairs’ 101-90 win over the Fukuoka Rizing marked a couple of firsts in Japanese basketball. The…
Zeljko Pavlicevic leaves Susanoo
Zeljko Pavlicevic has left Shimane Susanoo Magic of the Japanese BJ-League after three years in charge of the team. The Croatian guided the Magic to the Western Conference playoff semi-finals…
Mike Anderson inks with Akita Happinets
Mike Anderson (201 cm, VCU’08) has reached a deal with the Akita Northern Happinets from the Japanese BJ League. Anderson started this season in the D-League where he averaged 6.3…
Eric Walton signs in Japan
Eric Walton (204 cm, San Jose State’04) has signed in Japan with Shinshu Brave Warriors Nagano from the BJ League. Walton has not played overseas since the 2009/2010 season when…
Ricky Woods moves to Tokyo Cinq Reves
Ricky Woods (194 cm, Southeastern Louisiana’06) is joining Tokyo Cinq Reves from Japan’s BJ League. He started the 2012-13 season playing for the Miyazaki Shining Suns, which is also from…
Jamal Holden added by Sitra Club
The Sitra Club from Bahrain’s Premier League has added Jamal Holden (206 cm, UALR’04) to their roster. Holden started the 2012-13 season playing for the Samaheej basketball team, also from…
Michael Fey signs in Japan
Michael Fey (213 cm, UCLA’06) has signed in Japan with BJ League team Shinshu Brave Warriors Nagano. Fey started this season in Hungary, where he played for Falco-Szova and averaged…
Bill Cartwright to coach in Japan
Former NBA player and coach Bill Cartwright has been hired as coach of the Osaka Evessa in Japan’s BJ league. Cartwright coached the Chicago Bulls from 2001-2003. Osaka announced Tuesday…
Maurice Hargrow signs in Japan
Maurice Hargrow (193 cm, Minnesota’06) has signed in Japan with BJ League team Sendai 89ers. Hargrow already played in Japan last season when he averaged 21.6 ppg, 6.3 rpg and…
Verdell Jones signs with Oita Devils
Verdell Jones (195 cm, Indiana’12) has signed in Japan with BJ League team Oita Heat Devils. Jones started the season in Greece with Peristeri GS Athens, where he only played…
Thomas Granado inks with Oita
Thomas Granado (208 cm, Concordia Irvine ’12) has signed on with the Oita Heat Devils (Japan-BJ League). He was most recently with the Gunma Crane Thunders (Japan-BJ League), where he…
Wayne Oliver signs with Saitima
Wayne Oliver (201 cm, Cameron’03) has signed with Japanese BJ League team Saitima Broncos. Wayne Oliver sat out last season but before that played in China (Heilongjiang), Syria (Al Hurriyeh…
LaShawn Malloy signs with Yokohama
LaShawn Malloy (209 cm, New Orleans’06) has signed with Japanese BJ League team Yokohoma B-Corsairs for the rest of the season. Malloy is a veteran. He has previously played in…
Marquise Gray released by Niigata Albirex
Marquise Gray (206 cm, Michigan State’09) has been released by Niigata Albirex (Japan-BJ League), where he carried a 7.4ppg average through the first seven games of the 2012-13 season. Last…
Kazuya Hatano joins Shimane Magic
Kazuya Hatano (192 cm) has moved from the Oita Heat Devils to the Shimane Susanoo Magic, both of the Japan BJ League. In the first 16 games of the season…
Taj Finger signs with Niigata Albirex
Taj Finger (205 cm, Stanford’08) has signed with Niigata Albirex (Japan-BJ League). He’s moving to the new club from Oita Heat Devils, also of the BJ League in Japan, where…
Jermaine Dixon signs in Japan
Jermaine Dixon (191 cm, Pittsburgh’10) has signed in Japan with BJ League team Gunma Crane Thunders. Dixon started the season in the German Pro A where he averaged 14.5 ppg…
Dan Fitzgerald signs in Japan
Dan Fitzgerald (206 cm, Marquette’08) has signed in the Japanese BJ League with Akita Northern Happinets. Fitzgerald started the season in Argentian with Obras. Last season he already played in…
Anthony Mason signs in Japan
Anthony Mason (201 cm, St.John’s’10) has signed in Japan with BJ League team Akita Northern Happinets. Mason played in the D-League and Bahrain last season and started this season in…
Brandon Cole signs on with Toyama Grouses
Brandon Cole (203 cm, Xavier’07) has agreed to join the Toyama Grouses (Japan-BJ League) for the 2012-13 season. He most had signed to play for Ceara State (Brazil-NBB), but has…
Dennis Carr replaces Ilija Milutinovic at Tokyo Cinq Reves
Dennis Carr (201 cm, Embry Riddle’03) replaces Serbian Ilija Milutinovic (211 cm) at Japanese team Tokyo Cinq Reves. Carr last played in Taiwan and before that he was active in…
Darren Fenn signs with Hitachi Sunrockers
Darren Fenn (208 cm, Canisius’01) has signed in Japan with the Hitachi Sunrockers from the JBL. The last seven seasons Darren Fenn played in the German Bundesliga for several top-teams.…
Dion Harris signs in Japan
Dion Harris (190 cm, Michigan’07) has signed in Japan with the Akiat Northern Happinets of the BJ League. Last season Harris split his time between Venezuela and the German Pro…
FIBA Asia Cup: Iran denies host Japan title
Host squad Japan found themselves up by four points in the finals of the FIBA Asia Cup held yesterday in Tokyo, Japan, with a minute and a half left in…
FIBA Asia Cup: Iran – Japan in Finals today
The FIBA Asia Cup finals are set and not surprisingly it’s a rematch of the last game of the qualifying round between Iran and host Japan. In the first contest,…
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