Asked what brought him over to Japan to take a head coaching job, Donte' Hill assertively answered with one word: basketball.
Hill, 35, said that he considered Japanese basketball offered a great opportunity to take its game to the next level with the launch of the 12-club NBL for the 2013-14 season.
"This year, we have 10 foreign (head) coaches in this league and so many different styles of basketball that's being played every game," Hill said during the recently concluded All-Japan Championship in Tokyo. "So wanting to win a championship brought me here. My goal is to grow basketball, grow the Tsukuba Robots so that Japan can compete in the 2020 Olympics."
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