Yamagata Wyverns

The Yamagata Wyverns is a professional basketball team that competes in the second division of the Japanese B.League.^[1] TGI D-Rise served as a development team of the Link Tochigi Brex. TGI stands for Tochigi, Gunma and Ibaraki, three northern Kanto prefectures.

Yamagata Wyverns
Conference	East
Division	Second
Leagues	B.League
Founded	2009
History	TGI D-Rise (2009–2013) Yamagata Wyverns (2013–present)
Arena	Yamagata Prefectural General Sports Park Gymnasium
Capacity	3,976
Location	Tendo, Yamagata
Main sponsor	Vegasvegas Pachinko
President	Kazufumi Yoshimura
Head coach	Miodrag Rajković
Championships	none
Website	wyverns.jp
Home Away

Roster

Yamagata Wyverns roster
Players	Coaches
Pos. No. Nat. Name G 0 Tomoya Yamada SF 3 James Bell G/F 5 Ryunosuke Yanagawa PF 10 Kohei Takahashi SF 11 Hiromu Terasawa PF 17 Yusuke Suzuki PG 21 Takanori Tahara G 23 Shunto Murakami G 24 Dai Suzuki SF 27 Josei Maniwa (C) F/C 32 Javier Carter PG 33 Yoshiki Ishii C 40 Thomas Welsh SG 95 Rui Saito	Head coach Miodrag Rajković Assistant coach(es) Yuta Ryan Koseki Legend (C) Team captain Injured Roster Updated: March 26, 2023

Notable players

Chu scoring at the Nanyo Citizens Gymnasium

• Will Creekmore
• Anthony Elechi
• Torian Graham
• Gary Hamilton
• Stephen Hurt
• Billy Knight
• Chukwudiebere Maduabum
• Billy McShepard
• Yoshifumi Nakajima
• Justin Reynolds
• Magnum Rolle
• Seth Tarver
• Shusuke Yamamoto

TGI D-Rise players

• Paul Butorac
• Tatsunori Fujie
• Masashi Hosoya
• Yuto Otsuka
• Lamar Rice
• Noriyuki Sugasawa

Coaches

Yamagata Wyverns at Hanagasa matsuri

• Atsushi Kanazawa
• Koju Munakata
• Joe Cook
• Yuta Ryan Koseki [tl]
• Ryutaro Onodera
• Ryuji Kawai
• Sho Higashijima
• Miodrag Rajković

Arenas

• Yamagata Prefectural General Sports Park Gymnasium
• Yamagata City General Sports Center

Practice facilities

Yamanobe Citizens General Gymnasium

• Yamanobe Citizens General Gymnasium