Toyota Alvark crowned 2011/2012 Champions in the country. The team overcame the Winner of the Regular Season, Aishin in the Final series 3-1. Game 4 became decisive in the series as Toyota Alvark grabbed 83:64 win. Toyota Alvark led from the first minutes and controlled entire game increasing their lead in each quarter. They dominated down low during the game [...]
The Regular Season in JBL just ended. The most crucial game of the last round was a loss of top-ranked Aishin Sea Horses (31-11) in Kariya on Sunday night. Hosts were defeated by second ranked Toyota Alvark (29-13) 88-74. It ended at the same time the four-game winning streak of Aishin Sea Horses. It may be a crucial game in [...]
But the Toyota Alvark never backed down and succeeded in stripping the Emperor’s Cup from the four-time defending champions. Philip Ricci made a slam dunk with 17 seconds left in the final quarter, denying Aisin’s fierce comeback, as Toyota edged the SeaHorses 69-65 in the men’s final of the 87th All-Japan Championship at Yoyogi National Gymnasium on Monday afternoon. [...]
As expected, the bj-league’s sixth annual All-Star Game was a light-hearted affair. Sure, a few of the players broke a sweat, but the amount of defense played in the prime-time showcase was far from typical if the comparison involved a regular-season contest. That wasn’t the point, though; of course, the fans expected dunks, no-looked passes, and plenty of street-ball acrobatics. [...]
Carlos Dixon had an amazing evening in the last round for Fukuoka Rizing and that’s him to receive a Asia-basket.com BJ League Player of the Week award for round 24. The 30-year old swingman had the game-high 32 points adding five rebounds and five assists for Fukuoka Rizing in his team’s victory, helping them to beat Shimane SM (#6, 12-10) [...]
Isaac Sojourner, a former professional basketball player in Japan’s top league, stands about 6-8 and carries the athletic build of a prototypical American forward—long-limbed, muscular, the ideal frame for snatching rebounds or throwing down slam dunks. He was—and still is—a ballplayer of uncommon touch and variety: His mid-range jumper is satin, his footwork is fluid and fundamental, and he can [...]
James White (198-G-84, agency: Court Side, college: Cincinnati) confirmed via Twitter his return to Italy where he will be wearing the jersey of Scavolini Siviglia Pesaro. White had a terrific season in Serie A in 2010-11 with Dinamo Ford Sassari with whom he averaged 20.2ppg (league’s leading scorer), 4.9rpg, 2.3apg, moreover he scored double digit in all the games he [...]
FINAL Hamamatsu P. – Okinawa GK 82-68 Hamamatsu wins BJ League Finals beating Okinawa 82:68. They trailed by 4 points after first quarter, but they stormed back to get the 8-point lead at the halftime and eventually won the game 82-68. Hamamatsu Phoenix dominated on the defensive end, holding Okinawa GK to just 6 points in second quarter. They made [...]
After busting his ass in Japan for five months, Jeremy Tyler deserved a day off. Beginning in October 2010, under the tutelage of former NBA coach Bob Hill, Tyler suited up for Tokyo Apache in the bj league—the Basketball Japan League, the top level of pro ball in Japan. Tyler battled in practice with former Sonics center Robert Swift, and [...]
The floor itself was bouncing. Yuta Tabuse looked up and the roof was shaking, too. To the players inside the Brex Arena Utsunomiya, it felt like the whole gym was being dribbled. And violently so. Japan’s most famous basketball player was gliding through a light scrimmage on the afternoon before a game when a magnitude 9.0 earthquake slammed the country’s [...]
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