NBA Yamura and Watanabe first Japanese player confrontation December 15 at 15:03
With NBA = American professional basketball, Wizards, who belongs to Atsushi Yamura, and Yuzuru Watanabe, Grizzlies, played for the first time in the NBA.
In the 14th game at Memphis, the home of Grizzlies, Wizards Yamura was the starting player, and Grizzlies Watanabe was the start from the bench.
Yamura scored 4 goals, such as scoring in the 1st quarter, dribbling and scoring, and once fell to the bench.
In the second quarter, Watanabe played in 1 minute and in 4 minutes, Yamura participated in 4 minutes, and two Japanese players participated in the same game for the first time in the NBA.
Immediately after the two players joined together, Yamura made a dribbling with a ball near Grizzlies' goal, while Watanabe took on the defense and Yamura won the score without breaking this defense. I couldn't list them.
Watanabe went down to the bench in the middle of the second quarter, returned to the fourth quarter again, played 7 minutes, the highest number of the season, and marked 3 rebounds.
On the other hand, Hachimura played 28 minutes 40 seconds and marked 10 points and 4 rebounds. The game was won by Grizzlies 128 vs 111.
After the match, Yamura and Watanabe exchanged each other's uniforms and celebrated their best.