![[Basketball]Rui Hachimura, Yuta Watanabe and other “strongest members” are candidates for the Paris Olympics training camp](https://i1.wp.com/newsdig.ismcdn.jp/mwimgs/1/e/1200w/img_1efeba40e75dcc6fa159d453a09d383297739.jpg?w=1200&resize=1200,675&ssl=1 "[Basketball]Rui Hachimura, Yuta Watanabe and other “strongest members” are candidates for the Paris Olympics training camp")
On the 26th, the Japan Basketball Association announced the 16 candidates for the Japanese men’s national team for the Paris Olympics, including Rui Hachimura (26) of the NBA Los Angeles Lakers and Yuta Watanabe (29), who played for the Grizzlies and other teams this season.
Japan, which has qualified for the Olympics on its own for the first time in 48 years, is gearing up with its strongest team for the Paris Olympics, which will begin on July 26. They will play practice matches against South Korea on July 5 and 7.
[16 candidates for the Japanese men’s national basketball team]
Yuki Togashi (30, Chiba Jets/PG)
Akira Jacobs (20, University of Hawaii/SF)
Yuki Kawamura (23, Yokohama BC/PG)
Shin Hiejima (33, Utsunomiya Brex/SG)
Kai Teves (25, Alvark Tokyo/PG)
Rui Hachimura (26, Lakers/PF)
Yuta Watanabe (29, Grizzlies/SF)
Kanechika Ren (21, Chiba Jets/SF)
Yudai Baba (28, Nagasaki Velca/SF)
Josh Hawkinson (29, SR Shibuya/C・PF)
Hiroki Tominaga (23, Freelance/SG)
Takanari Sasaki (28, San-en/PG)
Tobio Watanabe (25, Ryukyu/C)
Soichiro Inoue (25, Koshigaya/PF)
Hirotaka Yoshii (26, Alvark Tokyo/SF)
Hiroya Kawamada (26, Shiga Lakes/C)
Source: Japanese