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
2013.10.14
Golden Kings stunned with Satuday’s home loss [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The undefeated Ryukyu Golden Kings were waiting as the Tokyo Cinq Rêves came to town last weekend, only to wish they hadn’t as the visitors pushed and pounded Okinawa through an ov...
2013.10.13
FamilyMart opens Ryukyu Golden Kings store [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Okinawa FamilyMart has transformed one of their shops in Omoromachi, Naha, into an Okinawa basketball team Ryukyu Golden Kings paradise. The store opened on Sep. 24, and with its n...
2013.10.08
Golden Kings sweep Oita in season openers [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings opened the new Basketball Japan League campaign much as it ended last year’s, whipping out a pair of victories on the road. Okinawa nailed the Oita HeatDevi...
2013.10.07
Golden Kings ready to set BJL on fire as season begins [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, are ready for this weekend’s launch of...
2013.07.12
Newton inks new Kings contract, Yonamine leaves [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Star forward Jeff Newton has signed a new contract with the Ryukyu Golden Kings, but former team captain Tsubasa Yonamine has announced plans to move to a mainland Japan team for t...
2013.06.06
Golden Kings make it official: Isa is team’s head coach [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Tsutomu Isa is perhaps the happiest man on Okinawa, although he’s the first to concede the excitement is matched by anxiety of having a tough road ahead as the new head coach for t...
2013.05.24
Home-grown boy named Golden Kings head coach [CURRENT ISSUE Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Little more than a week after the Ryukyu Golden Kings were stunned and eliminated from the Basketball Japan League championship series, management has shaken things up by replacing...
2013.05.15
Golden Kings out after disastrous home playoff series [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
“Shock and Awe” can be the only words to describe the meltdown by the Ryukyu Golden Kings in the semi-finals of the Basketball Japan League at the hands of a team that couldn’t bea...
2013.05.09
1st round BJL playoffs send Kyoto to Okinawa [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Golden Week first round of the Basketball Japan League playoffs was one of monumental achievements for teams, but Okinawa eyes were on the Kyoto Hannaryz, expected to win over ...
Golden Kings set new regular season record [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
On paper and on the hardwoods, the Ryukyu Golden Kings are the best team in the Basketball Japan League, and they proved it again in their season finale on the road in Osaka the la...
2013.04.25
Golden Kings run roughshod over Cinq Reves [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
It was not even a level playing field as the Ryukyu Golden Kings–already the Western Conference Champions in the Basketball Japan League and with their eye on yet another lea...
2013.04.17
Golden Kings delight home fans with two-game sweep [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
With the season’s Western Conference championship already in the bag, the Ryukyu Golden Kings played relaxed in front of the home fans at Okinawa City, trashing the Gunma Crane Thu...
Golden Kings split weekend with western rival Fukuoka [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The defending Basketball Japan League champion Ryukyu Golden Kings found out what it’s like to be on the losing end of a road game against its Western Conference rival over the wee...
2013.04.03
Golden Kings sweep season’s BJL nemesis [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Sporting the best record in the Basketball Japan League, the Ryukyu Golden Kings proved why in front of the home fans in Okinawa City, finally smashing the Shimane Susanoo Magic tw...
Golden Kings continue rack up wins [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
They did it last week, and the week before that, and how this week sweeping the competition to expand the Ryukyu Golden Kings lead in the Basketball Japan League’s Western Conferen...
2013.03.20
Golden Kings fly past Chiba Jets [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The wins continue to pile up for the high flying Ryukyu Golden Kings, who are only weeks away from the playoffs with the trophy as Western Conference Champions of the Basketball Ja...
2013.03.13
Golden Kings split series with eastern foe Iwate [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Okinawa’s former coach found his first appearance against the reigning Basketball Champion Ryukyu Golden Kings more than satisfying as his squad staged a shocking come-from-behind ...
2013.03.06
Kings stay golden with challenging weekend sweep [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
The Ryukyu Golden Kings went nose-to-nose with the Eastern Conference leader in front of the home fans, and put on a great show that kept the Western Conference leader on a four-ga...
2013.03.01
Golden Kings again rolling in high gear [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
Viewing their five losses over a nine-game period as an anomaly, the Ryukyu Golden Kings ripped their closest competitor in the hotly contested Western Conference of the Basketball...
2013.02.22
Golden Kings stunned by Susanoo Magic [Ryukyu Golden Kings]
A shocking 68-67 loss to the Susanoo Magic Saturday night in Matsue got the Ryukyu Golden Kings weekend off to a terrible start, and it didn’t get any better on Sunday. Riding high...
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