The Shiga Lakestars made a bold move this week, acquiring Masashi Joho from the Tokyo Apache for forward Reina Itakura.
The veteran shooting guard gives them a player with championship experience and a never-back-down attitude.
Joho has played in each of the four bj-league championship games, and he's made positive contributions for all of those teams — the Osaka Evessa in the team's title-winning 2005-06 and 2006-07 seasons and the two-time runnerup Apache over the past two seasons — on both ends of the floor.