While China and the Philippines are regional basketball hotbeds, Asian University Basketball League stakeholders are working ...

The most dominant women's basketball team in the world hit the hardwood for the first time at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics on Monday. But Team USA handled its first challenge with ease, defeating ...

Despite 20 points and 10 rebounds from Rui Hachimura, Japan was thoroughly outmatched in a 97-77 loss to Germany in the opening matchup of Group B play at the 2024 Paris Olympics. As expected the ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese basketball officials, fans and media hailed the selection of Rui Hachimura in the 2019 NBA Draft, saying the move will usher in a new era for the sport in Japan. Hachimura became ...

Hovasse coached the Japanese women to a silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics. As the men's basketball coach, he wants Japan to "shock the world" in Paris. TOKYO | Tom Hovasse’s voice vibrated through ...

Former Raptor Stanley Johnson recently played in the biggest game of his professional career. As the Japanese B. League’s Sixth Man of the Year, he helped take his top division team, Nagasaki Velca, ...

“No one knew who Kaine Roberts was. Luckily, my first game really put me on the map.” Kaine Roberts was speaking about his evolution as a basketball player at an outdoor terrace café in Roppongi Hills ...

The NBA-sanctioned story brand and its Japanese creative collective are building a parallel universe where swords gave way to basketballs.

Rui Hachimura, Nick Fazekas and other Japanese national team players celebrate an exhibition game victory over Germany at Saitama Super Arena on August 24, 2019. Japan and basketball have ...