The Saga Ballooners, a new B. League third-division team, have hired Takayuki Yasuda as an assistant coach, it was announced on Wednesday.
Yasuda spent the past three seasons as the head coach for the Kumamoto Volters, a B2 club. In his three seasons at the helm, the Volters compiled a 130-50 record. Former New Zealand men¡¯s national team bench boss Nenad Vucinic was hired as Kumamoto¡¯s new head coach last week.
Yasuda, meanwhile, joins Saga sideline supervisor Luis Guil Torres¡¯ staff. The 47-year-old Spaniard¡¯s hiring was announced late last month.
¡°We will do our best together ... so that we can show our aggressive, dynamic and attractive basketball to everyone in Saga,¡± Torres said in a statement.
New addition
The SeaHorses Mikawa on Friday announced that veteran shooting guard Takuya Kawamura, a prolific scorer during the JBL and NBL eras, has agreed to a deal for the upcoming season.
Kawamura, 33, averaged 15.6 points in 59 games for the Yokohama B-Corsairs last season, his third with the team.
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