Latest on Lakers forward's injury (August 2) Japan's national basketball team has consistently represented the Land of the Rising Sun in international competitions. The basketball team of Japan is ...

Japan men's national basketball team head coach Tom Hovasse said Tuesday he is aiming for Olympic qualification and a quarterfinal berth at the 2028 Los Angeles Games following his reappointment to ...

Japan’s national basketball team capitalized on its speed, stamina and strength in three-point shoots to gain a berth in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Japan defeated Cape Verde 80-71 at the ...

The Japan Basketball Association said Friday that Tom Hovasse will stay as head coach of the men's national team.

he was invited to try out for Japan’s national team. “When I moved back to Japan (in 2016), that’s what got me to all the places I’ve been to,” he said. “To be able to represent that basketball — ...

(Kyodo) TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A total of 22 basketball teams have been approved as the first batch of franchises to join Japan's new top ... the North America-based National Basketball Association ...

Elderly people in Japan love Ohtani,” Tokyo resident Tatsuo Shinke said. “It’s my mother. And all my mother’s friends." ...

For the first time in almost seventy years, women's baseball is getting a league of their own. The women's professional ...

Japan’s performance at the Basketball World Cup earned the team a berth at the Paris Olympics, sparking a national euphoria that sports officials hope has spread to a certain player in Los Angeles.

"Couldn't have had a better ending," Bird said in a postgame interview, then nodded toward Taurasi, her longtime national team running ... The U.S. and Japan were the first countries in history to ...

The athletes were selected by the USA Basketball Women’s National Team ... Group C features Belgium, Japan, Puerto Rico and Spain. Following the preliminary round, teams will be seeded, and ...

Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes and the rest of the ownership group of the Kansas City Current, which plays in ...