NBA Japan introduced the newest member of the Phoenix Suns, Yuta Tabuse, at a press conference held in Tokyo. The following is the complete transcript, translated into English, including remarks from ...

The Suns gave themselves on Tuesday a chance to make some international basketball history. They signed Yuta Tabuse (pronounced you-TA ta-BOO-say), who will try to become the first Japanese-born ...

Two decades ago, a 5’8 point guard from the other side of the Pacific Ocean made NBA history. The Phoenix Suns signed a free agent point guard named Yuta Tabuse to their 2004 training camp roster, and ...

Like a lot of kids who grew up in the ’80s, I was an avid baseball card collector. It started with my Dad, who would tell me stories of his own baseball card collection, long since lost. He would ...

PHOENIX -- The Phoenix Suns signed Japanese guard Yuta Tabuse on Tuesday. Tabuse, who was waived after spending training camp with the Denver Nuggets last year, hopes to become the first Japanese-born ...

Following the first workout of the Phoenix Suns' rookie/free-agent camp on Saturday, each of the 15 hopefuls fighting for a spot on the club's summer league roster took turns getting measured.

PHOENIX -- A 5-foot, 9-inch point guard who mixes off-court humility with an oncourt flair for no-look, fastbreak passes is the first Japanese-born player to make an NBA roster. Yuta Tabuse was told ...

Making history: The Japanese forward, who became the second Japanese to play in NBA history following Phoenix Suns' Yuta Tabuse (2004), made his debut in 2018 with the Memphis Grizzlies. Rui Hachimura ...

Medicom Toy has immortalized Japanese basketball legend Yuta Tabuse on a 400% and 100% set of BE@RBRICKs. The first Japanese player to take the court in an NBA game, Tabsue has been playing ...

The Suns’ Yuta Tabuse is 5-9. But he’s big in Phoenix. And huge in Japan. Tabuse is Japan’s first NBA player and like his countrymen in baseball before him, he attracted a ridiculous media following – ...