Yuta Tabuse

Yuta Tabuse (Japanese田 卧 勇 太, Tabuse Yuta, born October 5, 1980 in Yokohama, Japan) is a Japanese basketball player at the position of point guard.

Career

As early as high school times Yuta Tabuse was a star in Japan and led his school team to three national championships. His career began in Tokyo in the Toyota Alvarks, for which he played until 2003. After this time, he should be the first Japanese should hire in the North American professional league NBA.

Tabuse played for the Summer League team the Dallas Mavericks and then traveled to training camp with the Denver Nuggets. Since he could not convince the leaders of the team, he was removed out of the squad. His next stop was the ABA team Long Beach Jam, with whom he won the ABA championship this year and a statistic of 11.3 points, 2.4 rebounds and a Teambestleistung of 6.3 assists per game in 18 games came. After this successful season Tabuse tried again in the NBA, this time with the Phoenix Suns. In his first season game he came up with seven points against the Atlanta Hawks on November 3, 2004, but he was dropped from the squad on 16 December 2004 and played the rest of the season back in Long Beach.

In 2005 he started his third attempt, in which he finally did prevail, and signed with the Los Angeles Clippers, but which swept him after training camp out of the squad. In the Summer League 2006 he again played for the Dallas Mavericks.

Special Abilities

Although Yuta Tabuse with 1.75 m and 75 kg and is wonderfully small and slight for a professional basketball player, he has the ability to pull through his quickness and good ball handling to the basket and score points. His coach at the Sun's Mike D'Antoni was convinced of his abilities as a playmaker, but the pressure to perform was in a team like Phoenix probably too big for Tabuse.

• Basketball players (Japan)
• Japanese
• Born in 1980
• Man