{"id":266435,"date":"2022-03-15T10:31:16","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T09:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=266435"},"modified":"2022-03-15T10:31:16","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T09:31:16","slug":"warriors-wizards-to-play-2-game-preseason-slate-in-japan-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/warriors-wizards-to-play-2-game-preseason-slate-in-japan-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors, Wizards to play 2-game preseason slate in Japan in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Basketball Association (NBA) and Rakuten Group, Inc. today announced that the Golden State Warriors and the Washington Wizards will play two preseason games in Japan in 2022.\u00a0 The NBA Japan Games 2022 Presented by Rakuten will take place Friday, Sept. 30 and Sunday, Oct. 2 at Saitama Super Arena and will mark the league\u2019s 15<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0and 16<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0games in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made today at a press conference in Tokyo by Rakuten Chairman and CEO Mickey Mikitani, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and NBA Asia Managing Director Scott Levy.\u00a0 Silver and Levy participated via live video conference.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the games will go on sale at a later date.\u00a0 Fans can register their interest in tickets and gain access to presale information\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nba.rakuten.co.jp\/special\/nbajapangames2022.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The six-time NBA champion Warriors currently feature two-time NBA MVP Stephen Curry, five-time NBA All-Star Klay Thompson, and 2017 NBA Defensive Player of the Year and four-time NBA All-Star Draymond Green.\u00a0 The Wizards currently feature three-time NBA All-Star Bradley Beal, 2018 NBA All-Star Kristaps Porzi\u0146\u0123is and 2020 NBA All-Rookie Second Team member Rui Hachimura, who in 2019 became the first Japanese player in league history to be selected in the first round of the NBA Draft.\u00a0 The Warriors and Wizards will both be making their first visits to Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Golden State will take on Washington at Saitama Super Arena in Tokyo for the NBA&#8217;s 15th and 16th games in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":224573,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[15725],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-266435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","typology-comunicato"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/07\/NBA-Logo-75.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266435"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=266435"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=266435"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=266435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}