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Donatas Urbonas: Nassir Little — the No. 25 pick in the 2019 NBA Draft — has signed with the Chiba Jets of Japan’s B.League for the 2025-26 season, per sources. Little played five NBA seasons with the Trail Blazers and Suns. More 👇 basketnews.com/news-227943-na…
Because Landen Lucas spent parts of his childhood in Japan where father Richard played pro basketball, he can speak the language fluently. Duran has already fielded offers for him to play in Japan, where he could make nearly $300,000, after taxes, compared to a guaranteed Development League contract of $50,000. Japan could be Plan B, but in these workouts, matched against potential first-round picks such as T.J. Leaf, John Collins and Ivan Rabb, Lucas was not thinking about playing overseas. He wants the NBA.
Some of these players take workouts with the hope of landing on a team’s summer league roster. Others are just warm bodies thrown into 3-on-3 games. “I think we know, we’re aware of it but at the same time it gives us an opportunity to be seen. Beggars can’t be choosers, I suppose,” said Emilio Duran, Lucas’s agent. “We may not be the top prize but the coaches are going to be there regardless. Every time he has an opportunity to show his talent in front of anybody, I think it’s a positive experience for everyone.”
Speaking at a news conference held on an upper floor of the gigantic Shibuya Hikarie shopping complex, the 27-year-old displayed his energetic character to reporters and TV crews, showing no signs of fatigue or jet lag from his trip to Japan. “Just give me the ball,” Sacre said with a smile, when asked what he could bring to the table for his new team. “Everything else will work itself out.”
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The Dallas Mavericks have invited point guard Yuki Togashi to their preseason training camp, according to Cloud9, his management company. The announcement was made on Tuesday, and Togashi is scheduled to travel to Dallas on Saturday. Japanese supporters expressed their excitement via Twitter. Exhibit A: “Yuki Togashi was invited (to) the last camp by the Dallas Mavericks!!” tweeted Akira Tokusatsu. “Great! I know it’s really tough but I believe he takes the chance!!”
For example the dates for the qualification round of the 2019′s World Cup are: 20-28/11/17, 19-27/2/18, 25/6-3/7/18, 17/9-25/9/18, 26/11-4/12/18 and 18/2-26-2/19. Also, Fiba decided to organize four qualification rounds for the Olympic games of 2020 in Japan.
The Kyoto Hannaryz have bolstered their roster with the addition of guard/forward Edwin Ubiles, who has spent the majority of the past two seasons in the NBA Development League.
Cartwright is the second former NBA head coach to be put in charge of a team in Japan’s professional league. Bob Hill, who coached Cartwright in 1986-87, guided the now-defunct Tokyo Apache during the 2010-11 campaign. Cartwright says he’ll be with Osaka until the end of the season and then decide what he’ll do next. “You never know,” Cartwright said. “If you had told me in January that I would be over here I would have said you are crazy. I am a basketball coach, I know that, so I’ll be coaching somewhere.”
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