The Yamagata Wyverns are a Japanese professional basketball team based in Tendō, Yamagata Prefecture. The team competes in the B.League One, the second division of the B.League, as a member of the Northern Conference. The team was originally known as TGI D-Rise and served as a development team of the Link Tochigi Brex. TGI stands for Tochigi, Gunma and Ibaraki, three northern Kanto prefectures.
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Notable players
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
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