San-en NeoPhoenix
San-en NeoPhoenix logo
LeaguesB.League
Founded1965; 59 years ago (1965)
HistoryOSG
OSG Higashimikawa
Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix
San-en NeoPhoenix
ArenaToyohashi City General Gymnasium
LocationThe eastern Mikawa, Aichi and Shizuoka
Team colorsRed, White
   
Head coachAtsushi Ōno
Championships3
Retired numbers1 (3)
Websitewww.neophoenix.jp
Third jersey
Team colours
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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

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. No. Nat. Name Ht. Age
G 0 Philippines Thirdy Ravena 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) 27 – (1996-12-17)17 December 1996
F 1 United States Yante Maten 2.01 m (6 ft 7 in) 27 – (1996-08-14)14 August 1996
F 4 United States Coty Clarke 2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) 31 – (1992-07-04)4 July 1992
G 5 Japan Sota Oura 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) 26 – (1997-12-23)23 December 1997
C 8 Japan Atsuya Ota 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in) 39 – (1984-06-04)4 June 1984
G 11 Japan Hisashi Moriguchi 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) 24 – (1999-09-14)14 September 1999
F 14 Japan Kosuke Kanamaru 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 35 – (1989-03-08)8 March 1989
F 15 Japan Tatsumi Yu 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) 22 – (2001-07-09)9 July 2001
F/C 23 United States David Dudzinski 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in) 31 – (1992-05-26)26 May 1992
G 24 Japan Ryusei Sasaki 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) 27 – (1996-05-02)2 May 1996
G 29 Japan Kazuki Hosokawa 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) 26 – (1997-11-17)17 November 1997
G 32 Japan Morihisa Yamauchi 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) 34 – (1990-03-23)23 March 1990
Head coach

Japan Atsushi Ōno

Assistant coach(es)

Japan Hiroyuki Maeda
Japan Taishiro Shimizu

Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Injured Injured
Updated: 22 December 2022

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.

Coaches

Arenas

Practice facilities

OSG Gymnasium

External links

Notes

  1. ^ "MING 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. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
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