Kazuo Nakamura never minces his words. And this characteristic doesn't change, even on a formal, introductory occasion.
"We'll go for the championship from year No. 1," Nakamura said at a news conference on May 4 after the bj-league championship game at Tokyo's Ariake Colosseum.
Nakamura, a former Japan women's national team head coach, leads the Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix, which has defected from the JBL and will make their debut in the new environment as an expansion club next season.