The Japan Basketball Association has changed its alleged goal so many times, it¡¯s difficult to remember the original target.
Nearly a decade ago, there was real talk about a JBA-backed pro league.
Here¡¯s what bj-league commissioner Toshimitsu Kawachi told the Foreign Sportswriters Association of Japan in October 2005 before the renegade upstart circuit began its first season: ¡°In 2007, the JBL will also become a pro league. What I am thinking now is, ¡®Can we collaborate?¡¯ ¡±
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