San-en NeoPhoenix

San-en NeoPhoenix
San-en NeoPhoenix
Leagues	B.League
Founded	1965; 59 years ago
History	OSG; OSG Higashimikawa; Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix; San-en NeoPhoenix
Arena	Toyohashi City General Gymnasium
Location	The eastern Mikawa, Aichi and Shizuoka
Team colors	Red, White;
Head coach	Atsushi Ōno
Championships	3
Retired numbers	1 (3)
Website	www.neophoenix.jp

The San-en NeoPhoenix (三遠ネオフェニックス, San'en Neofenikkusu) are a Japanese professional basketball team based in the eastern Mikawa and Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture region of central Japan, that competes in the B.League.

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, the team announced its participation in the inaugural season of Japan's professional basketball league which debuted in 2016, competing in the first division.^[2] Prior to joining the league, the club accordingly changed its name to "San-en NeoPhoenix", and began playing their home games in Toyohashi.

Honours

League champions: 3
- 2009
- 2010
- 2015

Current roster

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San-en NeoPhoenix roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Age
G	0	Thirdy Ravena	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)	27 – (1996-12-17)17 December 1996
F	1	Yante Maten	2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	28 – (1996-08-14)14 August 1996
F	4	Coty Clarke	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)	32 – (1992-07-04)4 July 1992
G	5	Sota Oura	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)	26 – (1997-12-23)23 December 1997
C	8	Atsuya Ota	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	40 – (1984-06-04)4 June 1984
G	11	Hisashi Moriguchi	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)	25 – (1999-09-14)14 September 1999
F	14	Kosuke Kanamaru	1.92 m (6 ft 4 in)	35 – (1989-03-08)8 March 1989
F	15	Tatsumi Yu	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)	23 – (2001-07-09)9 July 2001
F/C	23	David Dudzinski	2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)	32 – (1992-05-26)26 May 1992
G	24	Ryusei Sasaki	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)	28 – (1996-05-02)2 May 1996
G	29	Kazuki Hosokawa	1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)	27 – (1997-11-17)17 November 1997
G	32	Morihisa Yamauchi	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)	34 – (1990-03-23)23 March 1990

Head coach

Atsushi Ōno

Assistant coach(es)

Hiroyuki Maeda
Taishiro Shimizu

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Roster

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

Official website

Notes

^ "MING MING SUN basketball profile". AFP. 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-11.
^ "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.

[1] "MING MING SUN basketball profile". AFP. 2009. Retrieved 2009-03-11.

[Nishinomiya-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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