SAN-EN NeoPhoenix

SAN-EN NEOPHOENIX
Leagues B.League
Founded 1965
Arena Toyohashi City General Gymnasium
Location The eastern Mikawa, Aichi and Shizuoka
Team colors Red, White
         
Head coach Hiroki Fujita
Championships 2
Website https://www.neophoenix.jp/
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SAN-EN NEOPHOENIX (三遠ネオフェニックス) 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

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

SAN-EN NEOPHOENIX roster
Players Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name
PG 1 Japan Shinnosuke Ohishi
PF 2 United States Robert Dozier
SG 3 Japan Masahiro Oguchi
C 8 Japan Atsuya Ota
SG 11 Japan Shingo Okada
PG 15 Japan Tatsuya Suzuki
C 44 Canada Scott Morrison
SF 45 Japan Junki Kano
SG 73 Japan Shuto Tawatari
Head coach

Japan Hiroki Fujita

Assistant coach(es)

Japan Shuto Kawachi

Japan Seiichirou Kage


Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Injured

Updated: 13 July 2017

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.

Notes

  1. "CMING MING SUN basketball profile". AFP. 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-11.
  2. "JPBLの「1部~3部階層分け発表記者会見」について" [Regarding the JPBL's "Division 1-3 Assignment Press Conference"] (in Japanese). Nishinomiya Storks. 30 July 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
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