Japan star Rui Hachimura said Saturday he is ready to step away from the national team if the Japan Basketball Association ...

This summer, the Los Angeles Lakers were well-represented in the Olympic Games in Paris as LeBron James and Anthony Davis led ...

Los Angeles Lakers guard D'Angelo Russell is interested in playing for the Lithuania national team but would need to get ...

The Tokyo Olympics were supposed to showcase Japan ... who has an American father; basketballer Rui Hachimura, who carried the national flag in the opening ceremony and has a Beninese father ...

And perhaps the most talented Japanese player in history has not yet indicated if he will be available for the Olympics next year. Rui Hachimura, a forward with the Los Angeles Lakers in the ...

Japan star Rui Hachimura said Saturday he is ready to step away from the national team if the Japan Basketball Association ...

Of course plenty can change between now and 2028 when the next Olympics take place, so the possibility of Russell suiting up for Lithuania could come to fruition. Lithuania failed to qualify for ...

Rui Hachimura, right ... matter suggest that Hachimura has been unhappy with games Japan played at home, including a pre-Paris Olympics game against South Korea in early July.

Born in Toyama to a Japanese mother and Beninese father, Rui Hachimura has become one of the stars of his homeland's basketball team. Having been initially interested in baseball, Hachimura finally ...