Ryukyu Golden Kings
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bj-League’s 10th season brings new excit… [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
By Jun Ikemura The Basketball Japan League –of which the Ryukyu Golden Kings are the reigning champions—is celebrating its 10th anniversary ...Read More
Golden Kings needed overtime to score fi… [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings finally put a mark in the win column of the young basketball season, struggling but succeeding in outlasting the Aki...Read More
Golden Kings ready to set BJL on fire as… [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
By Jun Ikemura Fired up! – That’s the best term to describe the Ryukyu Golden Kings, who with four pre-season wins already under their belt...Read More
2015.10.12
Golden Kings split weekend games with Shiga Lakestars [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings were facing the Shiga Lakestars in a pair of TKbj-League season 2015-16 second round games in Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, where the Kings ruled the Saturday’s m...
2015.10.05
Golden Kings trounces Hiroshima in season opening games [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings played its first pair of TKbj-League 2015-16 regular season games at the Asaminami-ku Sports Center in Hiroshima against the Hiroshima Lighting, an expansio...
2015.09.23
Kings split weekend games against Hitachi Sun Rockers [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings faced the Hitachi Sun Rockers Tokyo, one of the top teams in the other Japanese basketball pro-league, NBL, in the last pair of the basketball TKbj-League p...
2015.09.07
Golden Kings are ready to go! [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
As the two Japanese pro-basketball leagues, TKbj-League and Japan Basketball League are preparing to merge into one league from season 2016 – 2017, the upcoming season 2015-2016 wi...
2015.09.04
Kings contracts new center/forward Evan Ravenel [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Golden Kings announced that the team has contracted a new center/forward player Evan Ravenel on Aug. 25th. 25-year-old Florida native Ravenel who will carry number 30 on his...
2015.07.10
Golden Kings building up 2015-2016 season team [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Preparing for the upcoming TKbj-League 2015-2016 season, the Ryukyu Golden Kings announced Jul. 3 that the team has retained nine players from its last season squad. The nine who h...
Kings’ Namizato becomes free agent [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
TKbj -League pro basketball team Ryukyu Golden Kings announced that the team’s contract with Narito Namizato has expired on June 30th. Namizato took up a challenge to play in the U...
2015.05.15
Phoenix push Golden Kings out of playoffs [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
It was sheer disappointment for the Okinawa fans as they watched their beloved Golden Kings struggle before losing twice to the Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix in the Basketball Ja...
2015.05.05
Mini-playoff win lets Golden Kings escape to play again [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings are headed to the second round of the Basketball Japan League playoffs, but only after sweating past a first game loss, a second game win and then a playoff...
Draelon Burns wins TK bj-Legue “Best 6th Man Award” [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Pro basketball TK bj-League announced April 30th the recipients of its annual awards for the season 2014-15. Draelon Burns of the Ryukyu Golden Kings received the award called the ...
2015.04.29
Golden Kings split final weekend series [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
There were some good moments and some not-so-good moments as the Ryukyu Golden Kings took the Basketball Japan League season down to the wire, delighting the home fans on Saturday ...
2015.04.27
Okinawa City becomes Golden King’s official hometown [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings and Okinawa City held a joint press conference Monday morning to announce that Okinawa City would become the Golden Kings’ official hometown. The team was r...
2015.04.22
Golden Kings do it again – now looking at playoffs [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Nara Bambitious were the victims of record, falling to the Ryukyu Golden Kings as they powered their way to another 40-game season, and there are still a couple of games to go ...
Golden Kings preparing for playoffs, home finale [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings are a game out of first place in the Basketball Japan League’s Western Conference, trailing the red-hot Kyoto Hannaryz as the season winds down later this m...
2015.04.10
Golden Kings bounce back on road [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Stung by a loss as the Basketball Japan League moves toward the wire and behind by a game in the Western Conference, the Ryukyu Golden Kings moved into Fukuoka seeking to redeem th...
2015.04.01
Golden Kings stumble Saturday, redeem themselves Sunday [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
“We lost a game that we should have won” is how Okinawa head coach Tsutomu Isa summed up a stunning home court loss to the high-flying Kyoto Hannaryz in the opening game of their s...
2015.03.25
Golden Kings slip to 2nd after being stunned by Oita [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings were riding high in the Basketball Japan League’s Western Conference after an easy series opener against the Oita HeatDevils, but encountered a fired up squ...
2015.03.18
Golden Kings power-sweep another series [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Basketball Japan League season is moving to its final weeks, and in the Western Conference Ryukyu Golden Kings are not taking any guff from anyone, despite having a couple of i...
2015.03.11
Golden Kings split with Osaka in tough weekend [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The powerhouse Western Conference leading Ryukyu Golden Kings found themselves in trouble in front of the home crowd as the Osaka Evessa threatened Saturday and then pounded the Ok...
2015.03.03
Golden Kings crush ailing Five Arrows [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Being on the road was no handicap as the Ryukyu Golden Kings invaded Takamatsu, where the Okinawa squad crushed the Takamatsu Five Arrows on both ends of the double-header. Okinawa...
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