The NKK Sea Hawks were a Japanese

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team that played in the Japan Basketball League. They were based in Kawasaki,

Kanagawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-densest at . Its geographic area of makes it fifth-smallest. Kanag ...

Notable players

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* Yutaka Fujimoto * Manabu Fujita * Nobuo Hattori *

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* Steve Hood * Takashi Itoyama * Dana Jones * Shōji Kamata *

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* Kiyohide Kuwata * Eric McArthur * Fumihiko Moroyama * Kazufumi Sakai * Kenji Sōda * Masatomo Taniguchi * Keith Tower * Kaoru Wakabayashi * Kōji Yamamoto

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Defunct basketball teams in Japan Sports teams in Kanagawa Prefecture Basketball teams established in 1939 Basketball teams disestablished in 1999 1939 establishments in Japan 1999 disestablishments in Japan Sport in Kawasaki, Kanagawa {{Japan-sport-stub

Notable players

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