The is a men's professional

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...

club based in

Tokorozawa is a city located in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 344,194 in 163,675 households and a population density of 4800 persons per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Tokorozawa is located in the ce ...

Saitama Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Saitama Prefecture has a population of 7,338,536 (1 January 2020) and has a geographic area of 3,797 km2 (1,466 sq mi). Saitama Prefecture borders Tochigi Prefecture ...

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. It calls the whole prefecture home and its main home arenas are Tokorozawa Municipal Gymnasium and

Saitama Super Arena is a multi-purpose indoor arena located in Chūō-ku, Saitama, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. It opened preliminarily on May 5, 2000, and then was officially opened on September 1 of the same year. Its maximum spectator capacity is 36,500, making i ...

in Chūō-ku, Saitama City. It competes in the B.League.

History

*1982: founded as an amateur basketball club. *1983: The nickname Broncos taken from

Santa Clara University Santa Clara University is a private Jesuit university in Santa Clara, California. Established in 1851, Santa Clara University is the oldest operating institution of higher learning in California. The university's campus surrounds the historic Mis ...

. *1987: Promoted to Japan Basketball League division 1. *1991: Club renamed to *1996: The company club was dissolved. *1997: Restarts as a community-based club . From a lower-tier . *1998: Renamed . Promoted to the JBL division 2. *1999: The league reorganisation put the team to the new JBL. *2000: Adds

Saitama City is the capital and the most populous city of Saitama Prefecture, Japan. Its area incorporates the former cities of Urawa, Ōmiya, Yono and Iwatsuki. It is a city designated by government ordinance. Being in the Greater Tokyo Area and lyin ...

to its hometowns. Renamed

hiragana is a Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' literally means "flowing" or "simple" kana ("simple" originally as contrast ...

. *2002-03, 2004-05: Wins the premiership in two-peat. *2005: Quits the JBL. Renamed

kanji are the logographic Chinese characters taken from the Chinese family of scripts, Chinese script and used in the writing of Japanese language, Japanese. They were made a major part of the Japanese writing system during the time of Old Japanese ...

. Competes in the bj league as an inaugural member.

Roster

Notable players

:To appear in this section a player must have either: * Set a club record or won an individual award as a professional player. * Played at least one official international match for his senior national team or one

NBA The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a professional basketball league in North America. The league is composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada) and is one of the major professional sports leagues in the United St ...

game at any time.

Coaches

Tokyo Service Enterprise Super Cruiser - FHI 17S Saitama Broncos

* Tomoya Higashino * Charles Johnson * Kenji Yamane * David Benoit *

Masato Fukushima is the assistant coach of the Passlab Yamagata Wyverns. Head coaching record , - , style="text-align:left;", Mitsubishi Electric , style="text-align:left;", 2002-03 , 21, , 9, , 12, , , , style="text-align:center;", 5th, , , -, , -, , -, ...

* Bob Nash * Dean Murray * Natalie Nakase *

Tracy Williams Tracy Williams is an American professional wrestler currently wrestling for Ring of Honor (ROH) where he is a former ROH World Tag Team Champion with Foundation teammate Rhett Titus. He is also a former ROH World Television Champion. Prior t ...

Takatoshi Ishibashi is the Head coach of the Tokyo Hachioji Bee Trains in the Japanese B.League. He played college basketball for Hokkai Gakuen University. He was selected by the Toyama Grouses with the 14th overall pick in the :ja:Bjリーグドラフト指名選� ...

* Kazuaki Shimoji *

Ryutaro Onodera is the assistant coach of the Levanga Hokkaido in the Japanese B.League. Head coaching record , - , style="text-align:left;", Bambitious Nara , style="text-align:left;", 2014-15 , 52, , 12, , 40, , , , style="text-align:center;", 10t ...

* Collier St. Clair * Thomas Roijakkers *

John Saintignon John Saintignon (born 1965 in Tucson, Arizona) is the former CEO of Interscholastic Licensing Company (ILC). Partnered with Reebok Team, a provider of high quality athletic goods, ILC provides schools, foundations, organizations, federations and i ...

Arenas

* Urawa Komaba Gymnasium * Tokorozawa Municipal Gymnasium *

Josai University is a private university in Sakado, Saitama, Japan, established in 1965. The predecessor of the school, Jōsai Gakuen Middle School, later Jōsai High School, was founded in 1918. The university is operated by the Josai University Educational Corp ...

* Fukaya Big Turtle * Kasukabe City General Gymnasium * Cosmos Arena Fukiage * Shiki Citizens Gymnasium

References

* :ja:埼玉ブロンコス as 2007-06-06T02:55:59 by S-8500

External links

Official (Japanese)
Basketball teams in Japan Sports teams in Saitama (city) Basketball teams established in 1982 1982 establishments in Japan {{Asia-basketball-team-stub