Like a lot of kids who grew up in the ’80s, I was an avid baseball card collector. It started with my Dad, who would tell me stories of his own baseball card collection, long since lost. He would ...

The Phoenix Suns activated forward/center Jackson Vroman today and in doing so, waived guard Yuta Tabuse (pronounced you-TA ta-BOO-say). The Suns roster now stands at 13 players. Tabuse averaged 1.8 ...

It’s official: Yuta Tabuse is the first Japanese player to make an NBA team. The Suns put the 5-foot-9 guard on the active roster, part of the 14-man roster submitted to the NBA on Monday afternoon.

The Suns’ Yuta Tabuse is 5-9. But he’s big in Phoenix. And huge in Japan. Tabuse is Japan’s first NBA player and like his countrymen in baseball before him, he attracted a ridiculous media following – ...

Yuta Tabuse first came to the US in 2003. He spent a year playing in the NBA and he was signed by Suns in 2004. Unfortunately, he was waived after just two months. Now, this is the interesting part – ...

Making history: The Japanese forward, who became the second Japanese to play in NBA history following Phoenix Suns' Yuta Tabuse (2004), made his debut in 2018 with the Memphis Grizzlies. Rui Hachimura ...

Medicom Toy has immortalized Japanese basketball legend Yuta Tabuse on a 400% and 100% set of BE@RBRICKs. The first Japanese player to take the court in an NBA game, Tabsue has been playing ...

SANTA BARBARA – Yuta Tabuse got a taste last season. Now he wants to stick. But the diminutive guard, who became the first Japanese-born player to make it in the NBA, realizes that he has a difficult ...

Following the first workout of the Phoenix Suns' rookie/free-agent camp on Saturday, each of the 15 hopefuls fighting for a spot on the club's summer league roster took turns getting measured.

The Suns gave themselves on Tuesday a chance to make some international basketball history. They signed Yuta Tabuse (pronounced you-TA ta-BOO-say), who will try to become the first Japanese-born ...