Yeah, Japan is starting its very own pro basketball league. Hoping to follow the success of the Japanese soccer league, and to cash in on the NBA debut of Yuta Tabuse, the new league will start its inaugural season in November 2005 with six teams.
As for the name of the new organization? Well, since baseball already got NPB (Nippon Professional Baseball), and soccer got J League (The "J" stands for "Japan," duh), they've elected to put the sport first.
BJ-League.
Yeah. Even after years of the international community making fun of the English used in Japan for things like sports drinks, travel magazines and god only knows how many t-shirts, they still haven't thought about checking these names with someone who actually speaks English.
Of course, there is something really uplifting about cheering for the Nippon Ham Fighters, so maybe it ain't so bad.
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