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Wataru Misaka (December 21, 1923 – November 20, 2019) was an American professional basketball player. A 5-foot-7-inch (1.70 m) point guard of Japanese descent, he broke a color barrier in professional basketball [1] [2] by being the first non-white player and the first player of Asian descent to play in the Basketball Association of America (BAA).
The B.League is a professional men's basketball league in Japan that began play in September 2016. [4] [5] The league is operated by the Japan Professional Basketball League and was formed as a result of a merger between the National Basketball League that was operated by the FIBA-affiliated Japan Basketball Association and the independently operated bj league.
The Yokohama B-Corsairs (横浜ビー・コルセアーズ, Yokohama Bii Koruse'a-zu) are a Japanese professional basketball team that compete in the first division of the B.League. Following the team's establishment in 2010, they participated in the Eastern Conference of the bj league for five seasons and in 2013 became the first team based in ...
BC Yenisey (Russian: БК Енисей) is a Russian professional basketball team from the city of Krasnoyarsk, Siberia. Since the 2011–12 season, Enisey plays in the VTB United League. The team colors are blue and white. Its full name is Basketball Club Enisey Krasnoyarsk Krai.
James Omura (1912–1994), Nisei, journalist, editor, and civil rights leader [5] David Ono, anchor, ABC7, Los Angeles; Roxana Saberi, reporter, mother is an immigrant from Japan; James Sakamoto (1903–1955), Nisei, journalist, columnist, editor, and boxer, founded first English-language Japanese American newspaper
The East Asia Super League was co-founded by Matt Beyer and Henry Kerins [1] as the Asia League as a response to what the founders deem as a lack of high-level international tournaments featuring basketball clubs in the region [2] also taking into account the population in the region, about 2 billion, which could be a potential market for a regional inter-club tournament.
Rex Walters played from 1993 to 2000 with the Nets, Philadelphia 76ers and Miami Heat; [3] he was the head coach for the University of San Francisco basketball team. [ 4 ] After playing basketball at Harvard University , point guard Jeremy Lin signed with the NBA's Golden State Warriors in 2010 [ 3 ] and won an NBA Championship with the Toronto ...
Guangsha is the name of the club's corporate sponsor, but to prevent confusion with the older Zhejiang Golden Bulls, many Chinese websites refer to the team as the Guangsha Lions. [1] This is to avoid the issue of having two Zhejiang clubs on the same list when team names are shown in shortform, with Guangsha becoming the "geographical ...