Opening Game

On April 15, the highly anticipated new regular season of the Japan Professional Basketball League finally officially began.

That morning, the Tokyo Thunder continued training according to their established schedule.

At five in the afternoon, the opening ceremony for the new season officially began.

As the most luxurious arena in the entire league, the Tokyo Thunder's Times Center Arena was naturally chosen to host this year's opening ceremony.

Although the Tokyo Thunder had unfortunately been eliminated in the first round of the playoffs last season, no one dared say that Tokyo Thunder would decline because of it.

Their outstanding record of nine wins and one loss in the first ten preseason games also declared Tokyo Thunder's determination to return as kings this season.

Even in the opening ceremony's promotional video, the officials gave the Tokyo Thunder plenty of respect. In the entire five-minute video, the combined number of appearances and screen time for the Tokyo Thunder and its players absolutely exceeded that of last season's champions, the Kyoto Phoenix!

After watching the entire promotional video, Wu Yufei could not help but feel his blood boiling!

Although the Japan Professional Basketball League was only a small pond, the small group of people in this pond had never discounted their love and faith for basketball in the slightest!

Every year, they gave it their all, sweating and even bleeding for the same goal!

The opening ceremony lasted an hour, but the entire process moved along quickly.

At exactly six, the prepared Tokyo Thunder and Osaka Magic players entered their respective locker rooms to await warm-up time.

Inside the Tokyo Thunder locker room, Coach Oyama once again announced the starting lineup and tactical arrangements for the game in the shortest possible time. He then left the remaining time to the players, allowing them