Waiver of the contract!Officially announced his retirement from the NBA!Goodbye, the only yellow player
Voluntarily waived the $2.65 million player option in the final year of his current contract, Yuta Watanabe announced that he would leave the NBA and return to play in the Japanese league.
Yuta Watanabe was an NBA draft pick, but he never gave up, from the Development League to a two-way contract to a non-guaranteed contract and finally to a full-time contract, his career is a very good inspirational movie.
From '18 to '24, Yuta Watanabe's NBA career spanned six years, a length of time that was enough to beat many players in seconds, including the Grizzlies, Raptors, Nets and Suns.
He played in nine of his 213 games throughout his career, averaging 4.2 points and 2.3 rebounds in 13.3 minutes per game, shooting 42.6 percent and 37 percent from the field.
Probably knowing that Yuta Watanabe decided to retire from the NBA this season, the Suns deliberately sent him back to the Grizzlies, where his dream began, before the trade deadline this year.
So Yuta Watanabe was able to start his NBA career with the Grizzlies and end his NBA career with the Grizzlies, so that he had a beginning and an end.
It is worth mentioning that although Hachimura is also Japanese, and he is stronger and more famous, he is a mixed-race player after all.
Yuta Watanabe is a serious yellow NBA player, so it can be seen that he is more recognized than Hachimura in the Japanese and even Asian fan base.
By the way, after Yuta Watanabe returns to play in the Japanese league, then he will not only play international competitions such as the Olympics and the World Cup with the national team, but also have time to play Asian events.
Then on February 20 next year, the Chinese men's basketball team will face the Japanese men's basketball team in the Asian preliminary rematch, and it is possible to see Yuta Watanabe in battle.
In the Asian preliminaries some time ago this year, the Chinese men's basketball team lost to the Japanese men's basketball team away with a relatively new lineup.
Wait until next year's rematch, we will definitely go all out, not fight for steamed buns, and we can't lose to the Japanese men's basketball team in front of our parents and fellow villagers.
The Japanese men's basketball team is bound to take advantage of the victory and continue to defend its new Asian hegemony, and with the help of Yuta Watanabe, it will naturally be able to increase confidence.
In addition to being a yellow race, Yuta Watanabe is also more popular with Japanese fans because he is happy to participate in national team competitions and will play whenever he has the opportunity.
Unlike Hachimura, who did not participate in the World Cup last year, he waited until the Japanese men's basketball team got the ticket to the Paris Olympics before he took the initiative to say that he wanted to return to the national team.
Having the same nationality does not mean that you are all the way!