San-en NeoPhoenix
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San-en NeoPhoenix (三遠ネオフェニックス, San'en Neofenikkusu) is a B.League professional basketball team, based in the eastern Mikawa and Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture region of central Japan.
The team was founded in 1965 as the company team of the OSG Corporation, a Toyokawa-based machine parts manufacturer. It remained a local team in Aichi prefecture until 1995, when it first participated in the All-Japan Professional Basketball Championships. It joined the Japan Basketball League (JBL) in 1999, winning the Second Division championship in 2000. “Higashimikawa” was added to the team name in 2007, when its home stadium was moved to Toyohashi. It ended the 2007 season in third place.
From 2008, the Higashimikawa Phoenix joined the new bj league, and the following year, “Hamamatsu” was added to the team name to emphasize the compound franchise among Toyohashi, Hamamatsu, and the surrounding districts and the team was legally registered as an independent corporation under the name of “Phoenix Communications”. The team signed the noted Chinese basketball star, Sun Mingming, in 2008.[1]
In July 2015 it was announced that the team will compete in the first division of the new Japan Professional Basketball League, which will commence from October 2016.[2] Accordingly it was changed the club name to "SAN-EN NEOPHOENIX", and transferred to the home arena to Toyohashi.
Honours
- League champions: 3
- 2009
- 2010
- 2015
Current roster
Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.
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Notable players
- To appear in this section a player must have either:
- Set a club record or won an individual award as a professional player.
- Played at least one official international match for his senior national team or one NBA game at any time.
Wayne Arnold
Damone Brown
Josh Childress
Mo Charlo
Robert Dozier
Marquis Estill
Kevin Galloway
Michael Gardener
Jerald Honeycutt
Tim James
Paul Afeaki Khoury
Viacheslav Kravtsov
Hervé Lamizana
Dan Langhi
Dior Lowhorn
Cartier Martin
Sun Mingming
Scott Morrison
Stanley Ocitti
Atsuya Ota
Tim Parham
Gyno Pomare
Richard Roby
Addison Spruill
Deshawn Stephens
Jeff Webster
Wendell White
Terrance Woodbury
Elias Harris
Coaches
Kazuo Nakamura
Ryuji Kawai
Tomoya Higashino
Hiroki Fujita
Brian Rowsom
Shuto Kawachi
Branislav Vićentić
Atsushi Ōno
Arenas
Practice facilities
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/OSG_Gymnasium.png/150px-OSG_Gymnasium.png)
- OSG Gymnasium
External links
- Official website
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