Yuta Tabuse's return to his own country was a stunning surprise for Japanese hoop fans.
It was a veritable bolt out of the blue for himself, too.
A few days after the Link Tochigi Brex, a newly-promoted Japan Basketball League top-division club, signed the ex-Phoenix Suns guard, Tabuse, 27, revealed his honest thoughts on the move publicly for the first time.
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