Link Tochigi Brex point guard Yuta Tabuse and Rera Kamuy Hokkaido sharpshooter Takehiko Orimo headline the 22-player roster for the Japan men's national basketball team's training camp this week, the Japan Basketball Association announced on Tuesday.
Tabuse, the first Japanese to play in the NBA, gives the team added experience at the point. In recent years, he has been somewhat of a basketball outsider, however, while playing in the American Basketball Association, briefly in the NBA and then in the NBA Development League before joining Tochigi for the 2008-09 season.
Tabuse, 28, now has a chance to establish himself as the clear-cut leader of Team Japan.
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