Fixtures
| Date | R | Home vs Away | - |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/10 09:05 | 1 |
Bambitious Nara vs Veltex Shizuoka
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| 12/10 10:05 | 1 |
Kumamoto Volters vs Yamagata Wyverns
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| 12/10 10:05 | 1 |
Kobe Storks vs Kagoshima Rebnise
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| 12/10 10:05 | 1 |
Fukushima Fire Bonds vs Aomori Wat's
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| 12/10 10:05 | 1 |
Ehime Orange Vikings vs Rising Zephyr Fukuoka
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| 12/10 10:05 | 1 |
Iwate Big Bulls vs Yokohama Excellence
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| 12/10 10:35 | 1 |
Shinshu Brave Warriors vs Fukui Blowwinds
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| 12/12 10:05 | 1 |
Yokohama Excellence vs Bambitious Nara
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| 12/12 10:35 | 1 |
Rising Zephyr Fukuoka vs Kagoshima Rebnise
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| 12/13 04:45 | 1 |
Fukushima Fire Bonds vs Kumamoto Volters
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| 12/13 06:05 | 1 |
Yamagata Wyverns vs Shinshu Brave Warriors
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| 12/13 06:05 | 1 |
Rising Zephyr Fukuoka vs Kagoshima Rebnise
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Results
| Date | R | Home vs Away | - |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12/07 07:05 | 1 |
[7] Veltex Shizuoka vs Yokohama Excellence
[4]
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61-96 |
| 12/07 06:05 | 1 |
[7] Aomori Wat's vs Kumamoto Volters
[5]
|
70-103 |
| 12/07 06:05 | 1 |
[2] Ehime Orange Vikings vs Shinshu Brave Warriors
[3]
|
69-105 |
| 12/07 05:05 | 1 |
[6] Bambitious Nara vs Iwate Big Bulls
[5]
|
66-63 |
| 12/07 05:05 | 1 |
[6] Yamagata Wyverns vs Fukushima Fire Bonds
[1]
|
89-87 |
| 12/07 04:05 | 1 |
[3] Kagoshima Rebnise vs Fukui Blowwinds
[2] |
112-106 |
| 12/06 08:05 | 1 |
[6] Bambitious Nara vs Iwate Big Bulls
[5]
|
67-76 |
| 12/06 08:05 | 1 |
[7] Veltex Shizuoka vs Yokohama Excellence
[4]
|
68-73 |
| 12/06 06:05 | 1 |
[7] Aomori Wat's vs Kumamoto Volters
[5]
|
73-74 |
| 12/06 06:05 | 1 |
[2] Ehime Orange Vikings vs Shinshu Brave Warriors
[3]
|
81-86 |
| 12/06 06:05 | 1 |
[4] Rising Zephyr Fukuoka vs Kobe Storks
[1]
|
49-86 |
| 12/06 06:05 | 1 |
[3] Kagoshima Rebnise vs Fukui Blowwinds
[2] |
86-96 |
Teams
Aomori Wat's
Fukushima Fire Bonds
Bambitious Nara
Ehime Orange Vikings
Kumamoto Volters
Yamagata Wyverns
Rising Zephyr Fukuoka
Kobe Storks
Kagawa Five Arrows
Shinshu Brave Warriors
Sendai 89ers
Gunma Crane Thunders
Earth Friends Tokyo Z
Iwate Big Bulls
Fighting Eagles Nagoya
Koshigaya Alphas
Ibaraki Robots
Shimane Susanoo Magic
Hiroshima Dragonflies
Altiri Chiba
Kagoshima Rebnise
Veltex Shizuoka
Toyama Grouses
Shiga Lakes
Akita Northern Happinets
Saga Ballooners
Niigata Albirex
Kanazawa Samuraiz
Yokohama Excellence
Fukui Blowwinds
Ryukyu Golden Kings
Kyoto Hannaryz
San En Neo Phoenix
Osaka Evessa
Yokohama B-Corsairs
Saitama Broncos
Tokyo Cinqreves
Nagasaki Velca
Tokyo Hachioji Trains
Wikipedia - B.League
The B.League is a men's professional basketball league in Japan. The league is operated by the Japan Professional Basketball League and was formed as a result of a merger between the National Basketball League that was operated by the FIBA-affiliated Japan Basketball Association and the independently operated bj league. The merger had been mandated by FIBA as a condition to Japan having its membership resumed following suspension in November 2014. The league began play in September 2016.
History
The Japan Basketball Association was formed in 1930 and has operated Japan's top basketball leagues under various names since 1967. Throughout the history of the association, teams have been affiliated with large corporations and players have been employed by their respective owner company rather than competing as professional basketball players. In the early 1990s soccer in Japan moved away from a similar corporate structure and launched the J.League in 1993. The JBA commenced investigating the professionalization of basketball in the same year, and in 1997 lifted the ban on professional players. Despite this, the structure of the Japan Super League remained amateur in nature, with most teams remaining under the control of a corporate sponsor/owner.
In 2005 a rival bj league was launched in competition with the Super League, based on an American franchise system of professional teams. In response, the JBA re-launched the Super League as the Japan Basketball League (JBL) in 2007, but there was still a mixture of professional and corporate teams in the competition. The JBL was again rebranded as the National Basketball League in 2013. Since the establishment of the bj league in 2005, both competitions rapidly expanded the number of teams, with 45 teams participating between the two competitions in 2015.
FIBA, the international governing body for basketball, grew concerned with the division and disorganization of the sport within the country. After the JBA failed to comply with deadlines to commence reorganizing the domestic leagues, FIBA suspended Japan from international competitions in November 2014. A task force to investigate the reformation of the domestic leagues was formed and Saburō Kawabuchi was appointed co-chairman. In May 2015, upon FIBA's recommendation, Kawabuchi was appointed as president of the JBA. The merger of the two competing leagues into the B.League was announced in June 2015 and the international suspension was lifted by FIBA in August. Telecommunications company Softbank was named as the league's top sponsor for the inaugural season in March 2016.
The 2016–17 season commenced with an inaugural match between four-time JBL/NBL champions Alvark Tokyo, who finished on top of the NBL ladder in 2015–16, and four-time bj-league champions Ryukyu Golden Kings, who won the 2015–16 bj-league championship, at Yoyogi National Gymnasium on 22 September 2016. A full round of games involving all other teams commenced on September 24.
Since the 2021–22 season, the winners and runners-up of each season qualify for the East Asia Super League.