The Niigata Albirex BB and Saitama Broncos have provided a decade-long case study: different ways of doing business.
Their records speak for themselves.
As the two charter members of the bj-league, formed as a six-team circuit for the 2005-06 season, they were once viewed as the renegade clubs in Japan basketball after breaking away from the archaic, rigid ways of the JBL and its overseer, the Japan Basketball Association.
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