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Levanga Hokkaido

Professional basketball team in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan

Levanga Hokkaido

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Professional basketball team in Sapporo, Hokkaido Prefecture, Japan

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historyRera Kamuy Hokkaido
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Levanga Hokkaido
arenaHokkai Kitayell
capacity8,000
locationSapporo, Hokkaido, Japan
colorsChartreuse and Sapphire
presidentTakehiko Orimo
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Basketball Club Hokkaido Levanga Hokkaido | vice-presidents =

Levanga Hokkaido is a Japanese professional basketball team based in the city of Sapporo on the island of Hokkaido. The club was founded in 2006 as Rera Kamuy Hokkaido, this name comes from the language of the Ainu, an ethnic group indigenous to Hokkaido, and means "god of the winds". The franchise changed its name twice in 2011; the first when the club's parent company was kicked out of the league due to financial woes in the season. The team ended the season with a league-backed management group and a new moniker, calling itself Basketball Club Hokkaido. And finally, took its current name Levanga Hokkaido, in August 2011.

The team debuted in the Japan Basketball League in the 2007–2008 season and is one of only three teams in the league not owned by a major Japanese manufacturing company.

Levanga plays its home games mainly at the Hokkai Kitayell, but, as the team represents the entire Hokkaido Prefecture, also plays some home-games at the Asahikawa City General Gymnasium, Otaru City Gymnasium, Hakodate Arena, Obihiro City General Gymnasium & Kushiro Shitsugen no Kaze Arena.

The club was 200 million yen in debt in March 2017, but has since paid it off.

Honours

Continental

  • ABA Club Championship
    • Runner-up: 2008

Roster

JPN Ryutaro Onodera JPNFuminori Aiura JPNTomohiro Takeda


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.

  • ENG Chris Ayer

  • CAN Jordan Bachynski

  • USA Joevan Catron

  • USA Brian Fitzpatrick

  • JPN Makoto Kato (fr)

  • GER Tilo Klette

  • USA Jai Lewis

  • SWE Christian Maråker

  • JPN Keijuro Matsui

  • USA Daniel Miller

  • USA Tyler Newton

  • JPN Takehiko Orimo

  • CAN Chad Posthumus

  • PHI Dwight Ramos

  • USA Justin Reynolds

  • JPN Ryōta Sakurai

  • JPN Kohei Sekino

  • USA Jahmar Thorpe

  • USA Jerome Tillman

  • CAN Marc Trasolini

  • USA Jameel Watkins

  • USA Thomas Welsh

  • USA Greg Whittington

  • JPN Daiji Yamada

Coaches

  • Tomoya Higashino
  • Joe Bryant (2010–11)
  • Yoshinori Kaneta
  • Torsten Loibl
  • Scott Berry
  • Juan Manuel Hurtado Pérez (2013–14)
  • Kota Mizuno
  • José Neto
  • Tomohide Utsumi
  • Yuta Miyanaga
  • Kenichi Sako

Average regular season home game attendance

Practice facilities

Kaminishi Village

References

References

  1. Kane Kumagai, Translated by Yongdeok Cho (Noir). (2006). "Ainu for Beginners". UniLang.
  2. (2011). "Name change". japantimes.
  3. Hokkaido Shimbun. (6 August 2015). "債務超過解消と本拠地確保 NBL北海道、新L1部入りの鍵".
  4. Yomiuri Shimbun. (3 March 2017). "レバンガ、2億円債務超過 B1資格継続審議".
  5. (22 November 2018). "株式会社レバンガ北海道(第8期)決算報告について".
  6. (21 January 2020). "レバンガ北海道公式練習場契約発表会見実施のご報告".
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