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Rui Hachimura
Hachimura with the Washington Wizards in 2022
No. 28 – Los Angeles Lakers
Position
Power forward
League
NBA
Personal information
Born
(1998-02-08) February 8, 1998 (age 26) Toyama, Japan
Listed height
6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)
Listed weight
230 lb (104 kg)
Career information
High school
Meisei (Sendai, Japan)
College
Gonzaga (2016–2019)
NBA draft
2019: 1st round, 9th overall pick
Selected by the Washington Wizards
Playing career
2019–present
Career history
2019–2023
Washington Wizards
2023–present
Los Angeles Lakers
Career highlights and awards
NBA In-Season Tournament champion (2023)
NBA All-Rookie Second Team (2020)
Consensus first-team All-American (2019)
Julius Erving Award (2019)
WCC Player of the Year (2019)
2× First-team All-WCC (2018, 2019)
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com
Medals
Men's basketball
Representing Japan
FIBA Asia Under-16 Championship
2013 Iran
Japan
Rui Hachimura (Japanese: 八村 塁, Hepburn: Hachimura Rui, 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 both the small forward and power forward positions.[1] 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.[2]
^"Rui Hachimura". Gonzaga University Athletics. Retrieved November 22, 2018.
^Woodburn, Peter (March 19, 2019). "Rui Hachimura named Naismith Player of the Year finalist". The Slipper Still Fits. SB Nation. Retrieved March 22, 2019.
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Williamsom headline 2019-20 Kia All-Rookie First Team Tyler Herro, RuiHachimura voted to Second Team". NBA.com. September 15, 2020. Retrieved September...
by the Japanese Olympic Committee, together with basketball player RuiHachimura. Susaki also studies in the Sport science faculty at Waseda University...
history. Okayama was the only player from Japan drafted in the NBA until RuiHachimura was selected in the 2019 NBA draft. Okayama practiced judo at junior...
Kendrick Nunn and three future second-round picks LA Lakers acquired RuiHachimura February 9, 2023: Atlanta Hawks to Portland Trail Blazers (four-team...
Williamsom headline 2019-20 Kia All-Rookie First Team Tyler Herro, RuiHachimura voted to Second Team". NBA.com. September 15, 2020. Retrieved September...
second-round draft picks, to the Washington Wizards in exchange for RuiHachimura. Nunn made his Wizards debut two days later, recording 12 points, four...
and only got five points combined from starters D'Angelo Russell and RuiHachimura. This is the ninth playoff meeting between these two teams, with the...
Alongside other front office moves, the Wizards selected Japanese player RuiHachimura with their 9th pick in the 2019 NBA draft, as well as acquiring the...
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Hakata Ep 89, 95–96 Tsukasa Saito Ep 10–11, 14–17 Kenta Maeda Ep 45 RuiHachimura Ep 13–14 Yu Tamura Ep 25–26 Chiemi Buruzon Ep 29–30 Eiichiro Funakoshi...
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2021-06-10. "Japan's new NBA hopeful Tominaga Keisei in the footsteps of RuiHachimura". Olympics. Retrieved 2021-06-10. Nagatsuka, Kaz (2019-01-12). "Scoring...
3-steal outing in a 98–45 loss to USA, outperforming Japanese NBA players RuiHachimura and Yuta Watanabe who had four and nine points, respectively. Baba played...
Lakers acquired D'Angelo Russell, Malik Beasley, Jarred Vanderbilt, and RuiHachimura before the trade deadline. After playing in a bit shy of 28 minutes...
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