9 days ago
Takumu Kawamura is returning to his native ******* an and will once again play for first-division club Sanfrecce Hiroshima.
The 26-year-old ******* anese midfielder joined Salzburg from there in the summer of 2024. Due to several injuries, Kawamura only managed to play eight matches in the following two seasons.
Takumu Kawamura had a difficult time with us due to various circumstances and unfortunately saw very little playing time. He completed the current pre-season training without any problems and is now returning to his former club in good physical condition. We wish him all the best, good health, and every success!
Marcus Mann
#kawamura #returning #time
The 26-year-old ******* anese midfielder joined Salzburg from there in the summer of 2024. Due to several injuries, Kawamura only managed to play eight matches in the following two seasons.
Takumu Kawamura had a difficult time with us due to various circumstances and unfortunately saw very little playing time. He completed the current pre-season training without any problems and is now returning to his former club in good physical condition. We wish him all the best, good health, and every success!
Marcus Mann
#kawamura #returning #time
21 days ago
Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle — and, it seems, almost the full roster — went to Las Vegas to watch their Summer League squad compete.
Carlisle joined the ESPN broadcast during their opener to discuss the coming season, and he has been struck with the performance of Yuki Kawamura, a 25-year-old 5-foot-7 guard from ******* an who has 40 games of NBA experience over two seasons.
"He's an easy guy to like," Carlisle said. "He just kind of explodes into the game. When the coach points to him on the bench, he just flies up to the scorer's table, and then stuff just happens.
"He really knows how to play. He's seeing things before they happen. He has a great sense for how to draw contact and put the defense in jail. He goes hard."
Kawamura has averaged 10 points and 3.5 ******* ists in two Summer League games. The Pacers have games scheduled for Monday and Wednesday.
Carlisle joined the ESPN broadcast during their opener to discuss the coming season, and he has been struck with the performance of Yuki Kawamura, a 25-year-old 5-foot-7 guard from ******* an who has 40 games of NBA experience over two seasons.
"He's an easy guy to like," Carlisle said. "He just kind of explodes into the game. When the coach points to him on the bench, he just flies up to the scorer's table, and then stuff just happens.
"He really knows how to play. He's seeing things before they happen. He has a great sense for how to draw contact and put the defense in jail. He goes hard."
Kawamura has averaged 10 points and 3.5 ******* ists in two Summer League games. The Pacers have games scheduled for Monday and Wednesday.
21 days ago
Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle — and, it seems, almost the full roster — went to Las Vegas to watch their Summer League squad compete.
Carlisle joined the ESPN broadcast during their opener to discuss the coming season, and he has been struck with the performance of Yuki Kawamura, a 25-year-old 5-foot-7 guard from ***** an who has 40 games of NBA experience over two seasons.
"He's an easy guy to like," Carlisle said. "He just kind of explodes into the game. When the coach points to him on the bench, he just flies up to the scorer's table, and then stuff just happens.
"He really knows how to play. He's seeing things before they happen. He has a great sense for how to draw contact and put the defense in jail. He goes hard."
Kawamura has averaged 10 points and 3.5 ***** ists in two Summer League games. The Pacers have games scheduled for Monday and Wednesday.
Carlisle joined the ESPN broadcast during their opener to discuss the coming season, and he has been struck with the performance of Yuki Kawamura, a 25-year-old 5-foot-7 guard from ***** an who has 40 games of NBA experience over two seasons.
"He's an easy guy to like," Carlisle said. "He just kind of explodes into the game. When the coach points to him on the bench, he just flies up to the scorer's table, and then stuff just happens.
"He really knows how to play. He's seeing things before they happen. He has a great sense for how to draw contact and put the defense in jail. He goes hard."
Kawamura has averaged 10 points and 3.5 ***** ists in two Summer League games. The Pacers have games scheduled for Monday and Wednesday.
23 days ago
Center Rienk Mast posted 16 points and 11 rebounds and swingman Taevion Kinsey added 16 points to lead the Pacers to a 99-93 win over the Cavaliers at the Pavilion in Las Vegas on Friday in the first NBA Summer League game of the season for both teams.
Forward Jalen Slawson added 15 points, six rebounds, five ***** ists and five blocks for the Pacers. Guard Taelon Peter scored 13 points and forward Keion Brooks Jr. added 11. Guard Meleek Thomas and forward Nae'Qwan Tomlin led the Cavaliers with 20 points each. Guard Malakhi Branham added 15 points.
The Pacers and Cavs both had a brutal first quarter with evident jitters as both struggled to make shots and take care of the basketball. Cleveland led 14-11 after the first quarter as the Pacers got a few buckets from center Rienk Mast but little else.
But the the Pacers combined for 64 points in the middle two quarters, outscoring Cleveland 32-15 in the third to take a sizable lead heading into the fourth. A big part of what sparked the revival was the play of point guards Braden Smith and Yuki Kawamura, and the fact that the Pacers didn't have a problem putting both on the floor at the same time. That obviously made them small in the backcourt as Smith is just 5 foot 10 and Kawamura is 5-7, but they're both so good at passing the ball and getting it ahead that they made the pace of the game work for them.
Smith finished with just five points on 1 of 8 shooting including 1 of 5 from 3 but he had eight rebounds, four ***** ists and three steals. Kawamura had eight points on 3 of 5 shooting and four ***** ists, but their impacts went beyond just the counting stats as they raised the level for everyone else on the floor. As ***** istant coach Johnny Carpenter said about Kawamura before leaving for his job in Milwaukee, Kawamura and Smith both force everyone around them to move more when they're on the floor and them being around got everyone else organized and also running hard up and down the floor looking for opportunities. Kawamura was plus-4 in his time on the floor though Smith was minus-5.
Forward Jalen Slawson added 15 points, six rebounds, five ***** ists and five blocks for the Pacers. Guard Taelon Peter scored 13 points and forward Keion Brooks Jr. added 11. Guard Meleek Thomas and forward Nae'Qwan Tomlin led the Cavaliers with 20 points each. Guard Malakhi Branham added 15 points.
The Pacers and Cavs both had a brutal first quarter with evident jitters as both struggled to make shots and take care of the basketball. Cleveland led 14-11 after the first quarter as the Pacers got a few buckets from center Rienk Mast but little else.
But the the Pacers combined for 64 points in the middle two quarters, outscoring Cleveland 32-15 in the third to take a sizable lead heading into the fourth. A big part of what sparked the revival was the play of point guards Braden Smith and Yuki Kawamura, and the fact that the Pacers didn't have a problem putting both on the floor at the same time. That obviously made them small in the backcourt as Smith is just 5 foot 10 and Kawamura is 5-7, but they're both so good at passing the ball and getting it ahead that they made the pace of the game work for them.
Smith finished with just five points on 1 of 8 shooting including 1 of 5 from 3 but he had eight rebounds, four ***** ists and three steals. Kawamura had eight points on 3 of 5 shooting and four ***** ists, but their impacts went beyond just the counting stats as they raised the level for everyone else on the floor. As ***** istant coach Johnny Carpenter said about Kawamura before leaving for his job in Milwaukee, Kawamura and Smith both force everyone around them to move more when they're on the floor and them being around got everyone else organized and also running hard up and down the floor looking for opportunities. Kawamura was plus-4 in his time on the floor though Smith was minus-5.
26 days ago
INDIANAPOLIS — Johnny Carpenter has seen what this looks like up close.
He's seen the vision, the no-look, behind-the-back passes, the dazzling handle and the tenacious on-the-ball defense. He's seen the way a 5-foot-7 point guard who also happens to be a national hero in his homeland can engage and embolden a team of much larger men and electrify arenas.
"I got to experience Yukimania," Carpenter, Pacers ******* istant coach and head coach of their NBA Summer League team, said after practice Tuesday.
Indeed, Carpenter was an ******* istant coach on the Memphis Grizzlies staff in the 2024-25 season when Pacers Summer League point guard Yuki Kawamura played his first season in the United States after displaying his magic on the international stage in the 2024 Olympics in Paris with ******* an. The ******* anese went 0-3 in group play but they took Victor Wembanyama and eventual silver medalist France to overtime and Kawamura was a big reason why. In those three games he averaged 20.3 points and 7.7 ******* ists per game and he posted 29 points, seven rebounds and six ******* ists against France in a game when the opposing superstar was nearly 2 feet taller than him.
Less than a month after the Olympics ended, Kawamura signed an Exhibit 10 contract with the Grizzlies. During training camp, they converted it to a two-way deal. He played just 93 NBA minutes as a rookie, but fans still pleaded for him to get on the floor because he was so productive when he was there, averaging 13.9 points and 7.4 ******* ists per 36 minutes. Meanwhile in the G League with the Memphis Hustle, he averaged 12.7 points and 8.4 highlight-reel level ******* ists per game.
He's seen the vision, the no-look, behind-the-back passes, the dazzling handle and the tenacious on-the-ball defense. He's seen the way a 5-foot-7 point guard who also happens to be a national hero in his homeland can engage and embolden a team of much larger men and electrify arenas.
"I got to experience Yukimania," Carpenter, Pacers ******* istant coach and head coach of their NBA Summer League team, said after practice Tuesday.
Indeed, Carpenter was an ******* istant coach on the Memphis Grizzlies staff in the 2024-25 season when Pacers Summer League point guard Yuki Kawamura played his first season in the United States after displaying his magic on the international stage in the 2024 Olympics in Paris with ******* an. The ******* anese went 0-3 in group play but they took Victor Wembanyama and eventual silver medalist France to overtime and Kawamura was a big reason why. In those three games he averaged 20.3 points and 7.7 ******* ists per game and he posted 29 points, seven rebounds and six ******* ists against France in a game when the opposing superstar was nearly 2 feet taller than him.
Less than a month after the Olympics ended, Kawamura signed an Exhibit 10 contract with the Grizzlies. During training camp, they converted it to a two-way deal. He played just 93 NBA minutes as a rookie, but fans still pleaded for him to get on the floor because he was so productive when he was there, averaging 13.9 points and 7.4 ******* ists per 36 minutes. Meanwhile in the G League with the Memphis Hustle, he averaged 12.7 points and 8.4 highlight-reel level ******* ists per game.
1 month ago
INDIANAPOLIS -- Purdue All-American, Westfield High School star and second-round draft pick Braden Smith will lead the Pacers ' NBA Summer League team when it heads to Las Vegas to start play on July 10.
The Pacers released their Summer League roster on social media Tuesday. It does not include any players currently or expected to be on a standard contract, but it does include Smith, two players who were on two-way contracts last season and four more players who were part of the **** lesville Boom last season.
Guard Taelon Peter and Jalen Slawson were the players on two-way contracts with the Pacers. The four Boom players are Fort Wayne native Keion Brooks Jr., guard Cameron Hildreth , forward Gabe McGolthan and swingman MJ Iraldi. Point guard Yuki Kawamura , formerly a two-way contract with the Chicago Bulls , is on the roster as are two other players from other G League teams in swingman Taevion Kinsey of the Santa Cruz Warriors and forward/center Alex Reese of the Rip City Remix. Also included are undrafted rookies Keba Keita of BYU, Tamin Lipsey of Iowa State, Rienk Mast of Nebraska, Koacie Reeves Jr. of Georgia Tech and Jalen Warley of Gonzaga.
This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: Braden Smith leads Pacers' NBA Summer League roster
The Pacers released their Summer League roster on social media Tuesday. It does not include any players currently or expected to be on a standard contract, but it does include Smith, two players who were on two-way contracts last season and four more players who were part of the **** lesville Boom last season.
Guard Taelon Peter and Jalen Slawson were the players on two-way contracts with the Pacers. The four Boom players are Fort Wayne native Keion Brooks Jr., guard Cameron Hildreth , forward Gabe McGolthan and swingman MJ Iraldi. Point guard Yuki Kawamura , formerly a two-way contract with the Chicago Bulls , is on the roster as are two other players from other G League teams in swingman Taevion Kinsey of the Santa Cruz Warriors and forward/center Alex Reese of the Rip City Remix. Also included are undrafted rookies Keba Keita of BYU, Tamin Lipsey of Iowa State, Rienk Mast of Nebraska, Koacie Reeves Jr. of Georgia Tech and Jalen Warley of Gonzaga.
This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: Braden Smith leads Pacers' NBA Summer League roster
