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Rui Hachimura
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Rui Hachimura is a Japanese basketball player born on 8 February 1998 in Toyama. He was educated at Gonzaga University and was drafted by the Washington Wizards, going on to play for the Wizards and the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association. He has played as both small forward and power forward, and began his professional career in 2019.
Hachimura received the Julius Erving Award and represented Japan in the basketball tournament at the 2020 Summer Olympics. His ancestral home is listed as both Benin and Japan.
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Japan
- Active from
- 1938-10-10
- Active to
- 1985-06-15
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 2
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Key facts
- Position
- Power forward
- League
- NBA
- Born
- ( 1998-02-08 ) February 8, 1998 (age 28) , Toyama , Japan
- Listed height
- 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
- Listed weight
- 230 lb (104 kg)
- High school
- Meisei ( Sendai , Japan)
- College
- Gonzaga (2016–2019)
- Nba draft
- 2019 : 1st round, 9th overall pick
- Drafted by
- Washington Wizards
- Playing career
- 2019–present
- 2019 2023
- Washington Wizards
- 2023 present
- Los Angeles Lakers
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Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Team
- Los Angeles Lakers
- Position
- Power Forward
- Nationality
- Japan
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Japan
- Place of birth
- Toyama
- Occupation
- basketball player
- Languages spoken
- Japanese
- Sport
- basketball
- Member of team
- Los Angeles Lakers
- Position played
- small forward
- Country for sport
- Japan
- Mass
- 234
- Official website
- ruihachimura.com
- Image
- 2019 Rui Hachimura dribble (48824158846) (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 204.47
Show 8 more facts
- date of birth
- 1998-02-08
- Commons category
- Rui Hachimura
- name in native language
- 八村塁
- drafted by
- Washington Wizards
- start of work period
- 2019-00-00
- ancestral home
- Japan
- social media followers
- 237264
- name in kana
- はちむら るい
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Encyclopedic overview
Rui Hachimura (Japanese: 八村 塁, Hepburn: Hachimura Rui; Japanese: [hatɕiꜜmɯɾa ɾɯꜜi], born February 8, 1998) is a Japanese professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for the Gonzaga Bulldogs and has played for the Japan national team. He plays the power forward position. After being selected ninth overall by the Washington Wizards in the 2019 NBA draft, he was named to the NBA All-Rookie Second Team in 2020.
Born in Toyama Prefecture, Hachimura achieved success at the youth level in Japan, leading Meisei High School to three straight All-Japan High School Tournament titles and being a top player for the Japanese under-17 and under-19 national teams in FIBA competition. He joined Gonzaga in 2016 as the fifth Japanese-born men's NCAA Division I player and in 2017 became the first Japanese national to play in the NCAA Division I men's tournament. As a sophomore, he earned first-team All-WCC honors. He was named a finalist for the Naismith Player of the Year.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rui Hachimura” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.