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The are a Japanese professional basketball team that participates in the Eastern Conference of the bj league. In 2013 they became the first team based in the Kanto region of Japan to win the league title. From October 2016 they will compete in the first division of the new professional basketball league. ==History== The B-Corsairs entered the league in the 2011-2012 season as one of four expansion teams, seeing the league grow from 16 to 20 teams. In their first season they finished in second place in the Eastern Conference, led by league MVP Justin Burrell. Former NBA player Reggie Geary won the coach of the year award.〔 In the playoff series they finished third overall,〔 losing the Eastern Conference Final to the Hamamatsu Higashimikawa Phoenix but defeating the Kyoto Hannaryz in the playoff for third. The following season the B-Corsairs won the 2012-13 bj-league title, defeating Rizing Fukuoka in the championship game.〔 After again finishing second in the Eastern Conference, they overcame conference leader Niigata Albirex BB in the Eastern Conference Final, with Draelon Burns scoring in the final second of the game. With the victory, Geary became the first foreign-born coach to win a title in the bj-league.〔 Team captain Masayuki Kabaya was named playoff MVP. The club's initial success came at a financial cost. In the off-season following their championship success, it was reported that the club was in financial difficulty and the ownership changed. Geary left the club to join the Chiba Jets and the B-Corsairs' import players also signed with other clubs within Japan.〔 Geary's assistant Michael Katsuhisa became head coach〔 and Taketo Aoki retired as a player to become an assistant coach. Import players Wayne Marshall, Marquise Gray and Omar Reed joined the club.〔 The 2013-14 season started reasonably well for the club, which was in playoff contention with a 16-17 record, but it slumped at the end of the year and finished with a 24-28 record, missing out on the playoffs for the first time. Katsuhisa remained as head coach for the 2014-15 season and the team was again led by Kabaya and Marshall. Dzaflo Larkai, Carl Hall and Warren Niles were added as import players. Kenji Yamada was named captain although Kabaya remained with the team. The club struggled throughout the season however, with Marshall missing a quarter of the season due to injury.〔 They finished to 10th place in the Eastern Conference with an 18-34 win-loss record.〔 At the end of the 2014-15 season Katsuhia left the club and Aoki became the head coach.〔 Marshall left the club and was replaced by Jordan Henriquez. Cory Johnson and Emanuel Willis were also added to the roster, although Willis was released six games into the season. Yamada continued in the role of team captain for the second season. Satoshi Hisayama, who had been at the club since its beginning in 2011 but was released at the end of the 2014-15 season, returned to the club at the end of October to replace Willis. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yokohama B-Corsairs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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