Yuta Watanabe is moving on from the NBA. After a tumultuous year with the Suns and Grizzlies, Watanabe will return to his native Japan to continue his basketball career. The six-year NBA veteran ...

Grizzlies forward Yuta Watanabe is leaving the team and heading to play in Japan, per Bleacher Report. Watanabe had played six seasons in the NBA. The forward is from Japan, and had become the ...

National Basketball Association player Yuta Watanabe announced April 20 he will return to Japan next year to play in the professional B. League. Watanabe, 29, played for the Memphis Grizzlies ...

Rui Hachimura and Yuta Watanabe slam-dunked through the glass ceiling for Japanese basketball players to make it to the NBA. Now, they have inspired a succession of young Japanese hoopsters to ...

Born in Yokohama, Japan, Yuta Watanabe is an emerging star who is currently playing in the B.League. He is the current player for Chiba Jets Funabashi and is playing at the small forward position.

He is following in the footsteps of Los Angeles Lakers star Rui Hachimura, former Grizzlies forward Yuta Watanabe, and Yuta Tabuse, the pioneering 5-foot-9 point guard who played four games for the ...

PETALING JAYA: It will be an emotional outing for Jeremy Gan and his charges Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino in the ongoing Japan Open in Yokohama. It will be the top mixed pair’s last ...

Mixed doubles shuttlers Chen Tang Jie-Toh Ee Wei kept alive their hopes of reaching the last four of the World Tour Finals with a stunning win over Japan's world No. 2 Yuta Watanabe-Arisa Higashino.