Bambitious Nara

The Bambitious Nara (バンビシャス奈良, Banbishasu Nara) are a Japanese professional basketball team based in Nara, Japan. They compete in the Western Conference of the Second Division of the B.League.^[1] The team's name is a combination of the phrase "be ambitious" and the name of the character Bambi from Felix Salten's 1923 novel.^[2]

Bambitious Nara
Conference	Western
Division	Second
Leagues	B.League
Founded	2013
Arena	Rohto Arena Nara
Capacity	3,000
Location	Nara, Japan
Main sponsor	Rohto Pharmaceutical
Head coach	Haruyuki Ishibashi
Website	bambitious.jp
Home Away

Roster

Bambitious Nara roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name G/F 0 Christian James SF 3 Soichiro Fujitaka (C) SG 7 Masaya Komaki SF 8 Takuya Komoda PG 9 Shinpei Itabashi G/F 11 Keitaro Takaoka PG 13 Naoki Uto (C) PG 14 Tomoya Yanagawa PG 18 Naoyuki Fujisawa PF 19 Jeremiah Wilson C 22 Cheikh Mbodj G 29 Kaito Nakazawa F/C 33 Keiuke Mimori	Head coach Haruyuki Ishibashi Assistant coach(es) Kanjiro Tome Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: 20 December 2022

Notable players

2016-17 Team

• Jamar Abrams
• Ruben Boykin
• Joseph E. Chapman [de]
• Josh Dollard
• Gary Hamilton
• Charles Hinkle
• Adrian Moss
• Tshilidzi Nephawe
• Andy Ogide
• Josh Ritchart
• Tatsuya Suzuki [tl]
• Wesley Witherspoon
• Terrance Woodbury

Coaches

• Koto Toyama
• Ryutaro Onodera
• Kohei Eto
• Željko Pavličević
• Haruyuki Ishibashi
• Chris Thomas
• Takeo Mabashi
• Fernando Calero Gil

Arenas

Jtekt Arena

• Naraden Arena
• Jtekt Arena Nara
• Kingyo Square
• Gojo City Ueno Park Gymnasium
• Tenri City General Gymnasium