The Rizing Zephyr Fukuoka are a Japanese

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team, playing in the second division of the B.League. They are based in

Fukuoka Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Fukuoka Prefecture has a population of 5,109,323 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,986 Square kilometre, km2 (1,925 sq mi). Fukuoka Prefecture borders S ...

and were coached by

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, the father of Kobe Bryant, in 2015.

Roster

Notable players

Head coaches

* Toshihiro Goto * Carl John Neumann (2007–09) * Tadaharu Ogawa (2009–12) * Atsushi Kanazawa (2012–13, 2016-17) * Mack Tuck (2013) * Kimitoshi Sano (2013-14) * James Duncan (2014) * Ken Hamanaka (2014) *

(2015) * Tomohiro Moriyama (2015-16) * Takatoshi Ishibashi (2016) * Josep Clarós (2016, 2020-21) * Kentaro Hori (2017) * Ryuji Kawai (2017-18) * Bob Nash (2018-19) * Iurgi Caminos (2019-20) * Eiki Umezaki (2021-22) * Taiki Yoshinaga (2022) * Moncho López (2022-present)

Arenas

* Teriha Sekisui House Arena * Fukuoka Citizens Gymnasium * Iizuka Daiichi Gymnasium * Kitakyushu City General Gymnasium * Kurume Arena * Okawa Citizens Gymnasium * Mizuma General Gymnasium

References

Rizing Fukuoka
at Asia-basket.com
Team website
* Basketball teams in Japan Basketball teams　established in 2005 Sports teams in Fukuoka Prefecture 2005 establishments in Japan {{Asia-basketball-team-stub