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the grizzlies signed a new japanese backcourt star, and he almost helped the japanese team defeat the french team in the olympics?

2024-09-08

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the memphis grizzlies officially announced that the team has signed four players who were previously free agents. these four players are armando bacot, yuki kawamura, miye oni and mãozinha pereira. they also have the opportunity to use the upcoming training camp and preseason games to fight for their place on the team.

among them, the backcourt player yuki kawamura from japan was born in may 2001. he is 23 years old, 173cm tall and weighs 72kg. he is an undrafted player in the 2023 nba draft. yuki kawamura has been playing in the japanese b league in the previous seasons. he played 56 times for yokohama b-corsairs last season, averaging 30.6 minutes per game, averaging 20.9 points, 3 rebounds, 8 assists, 1.1 steals, 0.3 blocks, 3.3 turnovers and 1.6 fouls, shooting 41.7%, 31.9% from three-point range and 86.5% from free throws. yuki kawamura's personal performance last season was indeed quite good. he showed quite good personal scoring ability and good passing and organizational skills. he was also selected for the japanese b league's all-star team for two consecutive years last season. however, his yokohama pirates did not perform well and eventually ranked only 19th among all the teams in the b league (a total of 24 teams). in fact, kawamura yuki was also the mvp and best rookie of the japanese b league in the 2022-23 season.