MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan – Call this the season of “next man up.” With so many stars from last year either transferred or graduated, new players have ventured to Japan from other locales or have moved ...

Notwithstanding the fact that they are currently on a three-game winning streak, the Minnesota Timberwolves are not having the 2025-26 NBA season that they were hoping for. They are sixth in the ...

VILLENEUVE-D’ASCQ, France (AP) — The Paris Olympics are over early for Japan’s Rui Hachimura. Japan’s basketball federation said in a statement Friday morning that Hachimura will sit out its game ...

Japan has now lost all three of its games in the opening stages of the Olympics. They fell to Brazil 102-84 on Friday. This was Brazil's first win of the tournament. Neither team is likely to make it ...

Project B, the new women's and men's basketball league, will make a stop in Tokyo in April 2027. Tokyo is the first city the organization has officially announced. Its tournament will be one of seven ...

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

Already one of the biggest players on the court. Cleveland Cavaliers star Jarrett Allen was big in Japan during Game 4 of the 2025 NBA Finals. The event took place in Tokyo alongside Japanese pro ...

In recent years, Japan has started to solidify its place on the global basketball map. The steady ascent began with Rui Hachimura making waves as a lottery pick and has since been sustained by the ...

NEW DELHI: Being away from home never gets easier. Every day, you stand in front of the mirror, wondering what your family is doing. The pain doesn’t fade, it quietly settles in. Your mother’s warmth ...

CAMP ZAMA, Japan – It was just a three-minute scrimmage, but when 9-year-old Quentin Sykes sank a buzzer beater to seal his team's 4-0 win, the entire Youth Center here erupted like he’d just clenched ...

The event took place in Tokyo alongside Japanese pro hooper Keisei Tominaga. Allen and Tominaga watched Game 4 of the ongoing championship series between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers ...