The Passlab Yamagata Wyverns is a professional basketball team that competes in the second division of the Japanese
B.League.
TGI D-Rise served as a development team of the
Link Tochigi Brex. TGI stands for
Tochigi,
Gunma
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Gunma Prefecture has a population of 1,937,626 (1 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 6,362 km2 (2,456 sq mi). Gunma Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture and Fukushima P ...
and
Ibaraki, three northern
Kanto
Kantō (Japanese)
Kanto is a simplified spelling of , a Japanese word, only omitting the diacritics.
In Japan
Kantō may refer to:
*Kantō Plain
*Kantō region
*Kantō-kai, organized crime group
*Kanto (Pokémon), a geographical region in the ' ...
prefectures.
Roster
Notable players
![Chukwudiebere Maduabum Yamagata](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c6/Chukwudiebere_Maduabum_Yamagata.png)
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Will Creekmore
Will Creekmore (born April 9, 1989) is an American professional basketball player for Saitama Broncos of the B.League, B3 League. He played college basketball for Boston University Terriers men's basketball, Boston University and Missouri State Be ...
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Anthony Elechi
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Torian Graham
Torian Graham (born March 26, 1993) is an American professional basketball player who last played for New Heroes Den Bosch of the Dutch Basketball League (DBL). He played college basketball for Arizona State Sun Devils.
College career
Graham pla ...
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Gary Hamilton
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Stephen Hurt
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Billy Knight
William R. Knight (born June 9, 1952) is an American former professional basketball player and executive. Playing with the Indiana Pacers in both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and later the National Basketball Association (NBA), he w ...
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Chukwudiebere Maduabum
Chu (born Chukwudiebere) Maduabum (born March 19, 1991), sometimes credited as "Chuk", "Chuck", or "Chu Chu", is a Nigerian professional basketball player for the Tryhoop Okayama of the B.League. He was drafted 56th overall by the Los Angeles Lake ...
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Billy McShepard
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Yoshifumi Nakajima
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Justin Reynolds
Justin Darcey Reynolds (born December 12, 1988) is an American professional basketball player who last played for the South West Slammers of the State Basketball League (SBL). He played college basketball for Texas A&M–Corpus Christi.
Colle ...
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Magnum Rolle
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Magnum may also refer to:
Businesses and organizations
* Magnum Research, a firearms maker
* Magnum Semiconductor, a spin-off of Cirrus Logic
* Magnum Photos, a photojournalist cooperative
* Magnum C ...
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Seth Tarver
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Shusuke Yamamoto
TGI D-Rise players
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Paul Butorac
Paul Butorac (born November 25, 1983) is an American former professional basketball player.
He currently coaches Lilac City Legends of the American Basketball Association
The American Basketball Association (ABA) was a major men's profess ...
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Tatsunori Fujie
is a Japanese former professional basketball player who last played for the Iwate Big Bulls of the B.League in Japan. He was selected by the Toyama Grouses with the 4th overall pick in the 2012 bj League draft. On August 16, 2016, Fujie signed ...
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Masashi Hosoya
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Yuto Otsuka
is a Japanese professional basketball player for the Altiri Chiba of the B.League in Japan. He was selected by the Miyazaki Shining Suns
The Miyazaki Shining Suns were a Japanese basketball team that played three seasons in the bj league. The ...
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Lamar Rice
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Noriyuki Sugasawa
is a Japanese professional basketball player who plays for Nagasaki Velca of the B.League in Japan. Following his college graduation, Sugasawa became a school teacher, but decided to be a professional basketball player. In 2012 he was picked up ...
Coaches
![Yamagata Wyverns](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/62/Yamagata_Wyverns.jpg)
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Atsushi Kanazawa
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Koju Munakata
is the head coach of the Haneda Vickies in the Women's Japan Basketball League.
Head coaching record
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Joe Cook
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Ryutaro Onodera
is the assistant coach of the Levanga Hokkaido in the Japanese B.League. Head coaching record
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, style="text-align:left;", 2014-15
, 52, , 12, , 40, , , , style="text-align:center;", 10t ...
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Ryuji Kawai
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Sho Higashijima
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Miodrag Rajković
Arenas
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Yamagata Prefectural General Sports Park Gymnasium
Yamagata Prefectural General Sports Park Gymnasium is an arena in Tendo, Yamagata, Japan. It is the part of :ja:山形県総合運動公園, Benibana Sports Park and the home arena of the Passlab Yamagata Wyverns of the B.League, Japan's professio ...
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Yamagata City General Sports Center
Practice facilities
Yamanobe Citizens General Gymnasium
References
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Basketball teams in Japan
Sports teams in Yamagata Prefecture
Tendō, Yamagata
Basketball teams established in 2009
2009 establishments in Japan
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