Rizing Zephyr Fukuoka

The Rizing Zephyr Fukuoka is a Japanese professional basketball team, playing in the second division of the B.League. They are based in Fukuoka Prefecture and were coached by Joe Bryant, the father of Kobe Bryant, in 2015.

Rizing Zephyr Fukuoka
Conference	West
Division	Second
Leagues	B.League
Founded	2005
History	Fukuoka Red Falcons 2005–2006 Fukuoka BB Boys 2006–2007 Rizing Fukuoka 2007–2016 Rizing Zephyr Fukuoka 2016–present
Arena	Teriha Sekisui House Arena
Capacity	5,042
Location	Fukuoka, Fukuoka
Main sponsor	Abitashion
President	Yasunori Kanda
Team manager	Jun Nakanishi
Head coach	Moncho López
Championships	B3 Champions (2016–17) B2 Champions (2017–18)
Conference titles	Western Conference Champions (2012–13)
Retired numbers	1 (11)
Website	r-zephyr.com
Home Away

Roster

Rizing Zephyr Fukuoka roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name PG 0 Takayuki Kodama F/C 5 Bryce Washington PG 7 Tomokazu Abe SF 12 Hayato Kantake PG 13 Shuki Nakata F/C 14 Gavin Ware SG 16 Tomohiro Ishii C 20 Greg Slaughter PG 23 Shunto Murakami SF 24 Hiroki Taniguchi SF 33 Toshikazu Kato PF 34 Pablo Aguilar F/C 42 Leon Watanabe CG 88 Shuki Shigetomi	Head coach Moncho López Assistant coach(es) Taiki Yoshinaga Isabel Nogueira de Lemos Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: December 14, 2022

Notable players

Former logo

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Criteria
To appear in this section a player must have either: Set a club record or won an individual award while at the club Played at least one official international match for their national team at any time Played at least one official NBA match at any time.

• Matthew Bryan-Amaning
• Kohei Aoki
• Isaiah Armwood
• Julius Ashby
• Marlyn Bryant
• Brian Butch
• Haimo Chen
• Peter Cornell
• Jermaine Dearman
• Michael Gardener
• Jordan Glynn
• Gary Hamilton
• Ivan Höger
• John Humphrey
• Eric Jacobsen
• Zane Johnson
• Jerome Jordan
• Cooper Land
• Bingo Merriex
• Kevin Palmer
• Michael Parker
• Josh Peppers
• Corey Santee
• Marcus Session
• Kazuhiro Shoji
• Greg Slaughter
• Keisuke Takabatake
• Akitomo Takeno
• Seth Tarver
• Rintaro Tokunaga

Head coaches

• Toshihiro Goto
• Carl John Neumann (2007–09)
• Tadaharu Ogawa (2009–12)
• Atsushi Kanazawa (2012–13, 2016–17)
• Mack Tuck (2013)
• Kimitoshi Sano (2013–14)
• James Duncan (2014)
• Ken Hamanaka (2014)
• Joe Bryant (2015)
• Tomohiro Moriyama (2015–16)
• Takatoshi Ishibashi (2016)
• Josep Clarós (2016, 2020–21)
• Kentaro Hori (2017)
• Ryuji Kawai (2017–18)
• Bob Nash (2018–19)
• Iurgi Caminos (2019–20)
• Eiki Umezaki (2021–22)
• Taiki Yoshinaga (2022)
• Moncho López (2022–present)

Arenas

Accions Fukuoka

• Teriha Sekisui House Arena
• Fukuoka Citizens Gymnasium
• Iizuka Daiichi Gymnasium
• Kitakyushu City General Gymnasium
• Kurume Arena
• Okawa Citizens Gymnasium
• Mizuma General Gymnasium