What Rui Hachimura and Yuta Watanabe helped begin ... While the road to becoming a full-time NBA player is steep for both, what they represent is already larger than the game.

Yuta Watanabe, now with the B1 club Chiba Jets ... The Hong Kong program director said that Kawamura, among the few Asian players in the NBA, has only a 1 cm height difference from him.

The Phoenix Suns fired Mike Budenholzer after going 36-46 in his first season. ESPN's Stephen A. Smith says Mat Ishbia risks ...

Budenholzer was supposed to be the difference for the NBA’s first $400-million team ... t play one second in the league this season — Yuta Watanabe, Keita Bates-Diop, Chimezie Metu and Nassir ...

He has appeared in two games, but still hasn't scored his first points in the NBA ... is the second Japanese player in Grizzlies’ history, joining Yuta Watanabe who played 38 games for ...

“Yuta Watanabe is one of the best players in this league, seeing as though he can guard ... “Hopefully I can make it to the NBA,” Watanabe said. “But it is the highest level of basketball in the world ...

Yuta has proven to be one of the best ... 78 games for the Portland Trail Blazers this past season. Watanabe ranked among the top-5 players in 3-point percentage (44.4) last season with the ...