NBA Japan Video games 2022 offered by Rakuten & Nissan: By the Numbers

September 30, 2022

Rui Hachimura wearing Wizards warmups poses proudly with arms outstretched in front of Tokyo Tower

Wizards ahead Rui Hachimura poses by the Tokyo Tower because the workforce sightsees previous to the NBA Japan Video games 2022.

TOKYO — The NBA Japan Video games 2022 Introduced by Rakuten and Nissan will function the reigning NBA champion Golden State Warriors and the Washington Wizards enjoying two preseason video games on Friday, Sept. 30 at 7 p.m. JST and Sunday, Oct. 2 at 2 p.m. JST at Saitama Tremendous Enviornment.  The video games will air stay in Japan on NBA Rakuten, the NBA Rakuten YouTube channel and Rakuten TV, and within the U.S. on NBA TV and NBC Sports activities Washington.

Along with the 2 video games, NBA Japan Video games Saturday Evening 2022 Introduced by Rakuten & Nissan, which might be held Saturday, Oct. 1 at 5 p.m. at Saitama Tremendous Enviornment, will rejoice the sport of basketball and showcase the convergence of the NBA and in style tradition for a novel fan expertise.

Under is a take a look at information and figures about The NBA Japan Video games 2022 Introduced by Rakuten & Nissan:

1 – The NBA Japan Video games 2022 Introduced by Rakuten and Nissan will mark the first journey to Japan for each the Warriors and the Wizards.

2 – The Warriors will grow to be the second reigning NBA champion to play in Japan, after the then reigning champion Toronto Raptors performed in The NBA Japan Video games 2019.

3Three NBA legends – Richard Hamilton, Tim Hardaway and Dikembe Mutombo – will take part in NBA Japan Video games Saturday Evening 2022 Introduced by Rakuten & Nissan.

6 – Warriors and Wizards coaching camp rosters function a mixed six worldwide gamers from six nations:

  • Warriors (2): Jonathan Kuminga (Democratic Republic of the Congo) and Andrew Wiggins (Canada).
  • Wizards (4): Deni Avdija (Israel), Rui Hachimura (Japan), Kristaps Porziņģis (Latvia) and Makur Maker (South Sudan; ties to Australia).

9 – Rui Hachimura grew to become the primary Japanese participant ever chosen within the first spherical of the NBA Draft when he was drafted ninth total by the Wizards in 2019.

15 – This yr’s NBA Japan Video games and the encircling occasions are being supported by a file 15 advertising companions: Rakuten, Nissan, 2K, American Specific, Fellaz, Hennessy, Hokka, Instyle Group, NEC, Nike, Saitama Tremendous Enviornment, SAP, ServiceNow, Solar Chlorella, and Tissot.

16 – The NBA Japan Video games 2022 Introduced by Rakuten and Nissan would be the NBA’s 15th and 16th video games in Japan.  The NBA’s first regular-season recreation performed exterior of the U.S. was held in Japan in 1990 and marked the primary regular-season recreation performed exterior of North America by a U.S. sports activities league.

20 – Since 2010, greater than 20 present and former NBA gamers have visited Japan to take part in fan occasions, lead basketball clinics for youth, and proceed to develop the sport within the nation, together with the Warriors’ Stephen Curry and Draymond Inexperienced, and the Wizards’ Bradley Beal.

22 – There are a mixed 22 All-Star appearances among the many gamers collaborating in The NBA Japan Video games 2022 Introduced by Rakuten and Nissan: Beal (3), Curry (8), Inexperienced (4), Porziņģis (1), Klay Thompson (5) and Wiggins (1).

22 – The Warriors (10) and the Wizards (12) have performed a mixed 22 video games exterior of North America heading into The NBA Japan Video games 2022 Introduced by Rakuten and Nissan.

30 – On Sept. 29, the NBA and Particular Olympics Nippon hosted greater than 30 Particular Olympics athletes for an NBA Cares Particular Olympics Clinic that includes Warriors gamers and coaches.

34 – The NBA’s presence in Japan dates again 34 years as NBA video games and programming have been on-the-air in Japan because the 1988-89 season.

60 – On Sept. 28, the NBA hosted a Her Time to Play clinic at Minato Sports activities Heart, which supplied 60 younger feminine gamers with the chance to study from former WNBA gamers Monica Rogers and Katrina Hibbert and Japanese Girls’s Nationwide Staff participant Naho Miyoshi.

75 – Japanese American Wataru Misaka grew to become the primary individual of coloration to play within the NBA 75 years in the past as a member of the New York Knicks in 1947.

150 – On Oct. 1, the Wizards will pack and supply round 150 faculty provide kits to youth from a neighborhood orphanage in Tokyo. 

200 – The NBA Japan Video games 2022 Introduced by Rakuten and Nissan will attain followers in additional than 200 nations and territories world wide on tv, digital media and social media.

700 – Formally licensed NBA merchandise is accessible at greater than 700 retail shops throughout the nation and thru NBAStore.jp, the official on-line NBA retailer in Japan.

55,400 – Greater than 55,400 followers attended The NBA Japan Video games 2019, which featured two sold-out crowds, and the primary NBA Fan Evening at Saitama Tremendous Enviornment.

1,600,000 Greater than 1.6 million followers from Japan comply with the NBA’s international and localized social media accounts throughout Fb, Twitter, LINE and TikTok.

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