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FIBA exec Baumann hopes to complete JBA reform by June

TOKYO, Japan - Patrick Baumann (L), secretary general of the International Basketball Federation, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2014. Bauman said he hopes to complete the job of reforming the Japan Basketball Association by June.

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FIBA chief calls for JBA's reform by June

TOKYO, Japan - Patrick Baumann, secretary general of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2014, expressing his hope that the Japan Basketball Association will complete its reform by June to pave the way for unifying the country's basketball community split into two leagues.

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FIBA official meets Japan sports minister on JBA reform

TOKYO, Japan - Patrick Baumann (L), secretary general of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), meets with sports minister Hakubun Shimomura at the latter's office in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2014, to discuss proposed reform of Japan's basketball community. The two agreed to have sports ministry officials join a task force as observers to help lift a FIBA ban on the Japan Basketball Association's international competitions imposed for the JBA's failure to unify the domestic basketball world split into two leagues.

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Japan Basketball Association leaders to resign over sanctions

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuru Maruo, the Japan Basketball Association's acting chairman, holds a press conference in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Dec. 3, 2014, after the JBA's directors decided earlier in the day to resign following the International Basketball Federation's decision to ban Japan from international competition for the JBA's failure to merge its two competing leagues.

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JBA acting chief apologizes after failed merger results

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuru Maruo, acting president of the Japan Basketball Association, bows in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2014, a day after the JBA was banned indefinitely from playing in competitions sanctioned by the sport's world governing body FIBA.

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JBA acting chief apologizes after failed merger results

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuru Maruo, acting president of the Japan Basketball Association, hold a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2014, a day after the JBA was banned indefinitely from playing in competitions sanctioned by the sport's world governing body FIBA.

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Basketball: Mitsuya set to succeed Kawabuchi as JBA head

Combined photo shows Saburo Kawabuchi (R), chairman of the Japan Basketball Association, and Yuko Mitsuya, second-in-command of the governing body. Sources close to the matter said on March 11, 2016, that the 57-year-old former member of the Japanese women's volleyball team will succeed the 79-year-old Kawabuchi. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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JBA president Kawabuchi waves at NBL final series

Saburo Kawabuchi, president of the Japan Basketball Association, waves on May 25, 2015, at the National Basketball League's Grand Final series in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan's new pro basketball circuit to be known as "B. League"

The Japan Basketball Association announces in Tokyo on Sept. 15, 2015, that the new men's professional basketball circuit will be known as the "B. League." From L: entrepreneur and television personality Takafumi Horie, JBA Secretary General Masaaki Okawa, JBA President Saburo Kawabuchi and Yuta Tabuse, a star domestic league player who had a brief stint with the U.S. NBA's Phoenix Suns in 2004. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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FIBA exec Baumann hopes to complete JBA reform by June

TOKYO, Japan - Patrick Baumann (L), secretary general of the International Basketball Federation, attends a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2014. Bauman said he hopes to complete the job of reforming the Japan Basketball Association by June. (Kyodo)

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FIBA chief calls for JBA's reform by June

TOKYO, Japan - Patrick Baumann, secretary general of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA), speaks at a press conference in Tokyo on Dec. 18, 2014, expressing his hope that the Japan Basketball Association will complete its reform by June to pave the way for unifying the country's basketball community split into two leagues. (Kyodo)

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JBA acting chief apologizes after failed merger results

TOKYO, Japan - Mitsuru Maruo, acting president of the Japan Basketball Association, bows in apology during a press conference in Tokyo on Nov. 27, 2014, a day after the JBA was banned indefinitely from playing in competitions sanctioned by the sport's world governing body FIBA. (Kyodo)