{"id":1972,"date":"2021-08-25T18:21:30","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T18:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2021-12-06T23:55:04","modified_gmt":"2021-12-06T23:55:04","slug":"tpos-podcast-episode-12-jr-sakuragi-the-american-star-of-japanese-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/tpos-podcast-episode-12-jr-sakuragi-the-american-star-of-japanese-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"TPOS Podcast Episode 12 \u2013 JR Sakuragi (\u201cThe American Star Of Japanese Basketball\u201d)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"TPOS Podcast Episode 12 \u2013 JR Sakuragi (\u201cThe American Star Of Japanese Basketball\u201d)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-08-25T18:21:30+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT35M52S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"\nIn this episode, we speak with J.R. Sakuragi, a professional basketball player who has thrived is his adopted homeland of Japan. J.R. first gained fame as J.R. Henderson, in his native Bakersfield, California, and at UCLA where he helped the Bruins ...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/JR-Sakuragi-FINAL_.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"65.7\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6542\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1972-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/JR-Sakuragi-FINAL_.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/JR-Sakuragi-FINAL_.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/JR-Sakuragi-FINAL_.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/JR-Sakuragi-FINAL_.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/?powerpress_pinw=1972-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/JR-Sakuragi-FINAL_.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"JR-Sakuragi-FINAL_.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 35:52 &#8212; 65.7MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/subscribe-to-podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this episode, we speak with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/jr.sakuragi\/?hl=en\">J.R. Sakuragi<\/a>, a professional basketball player who has thrived is his adopted homeland of Japan. J.R. first gained fame as J.R. Henderson, in his native Bakersfield, California, and at UCLA where he helped the Bruins win the 1995 NCAA men\u2019s basketball championship. Upon graduation, J.R. was drafted into the NBA, where he played for the Vancouver Grizzlies. But after 1999-2000 season was cut short due to conflict between NBA owners and players, J.R.&nbsp;&nbsp;traveled to Japan to continue his career. It was there that J.R.&nbsp;found a home away from home, becoming a bona fide star on several championship teams, and becoming a naturalized Japanese citizen. All told, J.R. played over 700 games spanning 19 seasons, and scored nearly 11,000 points. So, listen in to J.R. tell us about his international basketball journey, about his experiences becoming affectionately known as \u201cMr. SeaHorses\u201d, about his views of the two professional leagues that existed in Japan up until 2014, and about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiba.basketball\">FIBA<\/a> sanctions that were placed on Japan which helped usher in a new professional league and a new age of basketball in the land of the rising sun.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div itemscope itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/AudioObject\"><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"TPOS Podcast Episode 12 \u2013 JR Sakuragi (\u201cThe American Star Of Japanese Basketball\u201d)\" \/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2021-08-25T18:21:30+00:00\" \/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\" \/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT35M52S\" \/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"\nIn this episode, we speak with J.R. Sakuragi, a professional basketball player who has thrived is his adopted homeland of Japan. J.R. first gained fame as J.R. Henderson, in his native Bakersfield, California, and at UCLA where he helped the Bruins ...\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/JR-Sakuragi-FINAL_.mp3\" \/><meta itemprop=\"contentSize\" content=\"65.7\" \/><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_6543\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1972-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/JR-Sakuragi-FINAL_.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/JR-Sakuragi-FINAL_.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/JR-Sakuragi-FINAL_.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/JR-Sakuragi-FINAL_.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/?powerpress_pinw=1972-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/powerofsports\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/JR-Sakuragi-FINAL_.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"JR-Sakuragi-FINAL_.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Duration: 35:52 &#8212; 65.7MB)<\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/subscribe-to-podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"More\" rel=\"nofollow\">More<\/a><\/p><p>In this episode, we speak with J.R. Sakuragi, a professional basketball player who has thrived is his adopted homeland of Japan. J.R. first gained fame as J.R. Henderson, in his native Bakersfield, California, and at UCLA where he helped the Bruins win the 1995 NCAA men\u2019s basketball championship. Upon graduation, J.R. was drafted into the&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/tpos-podcast-episode-12-jr-sakuragi-the-american-star-of-japanese-basketball\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TPOS Podcast Episode 12 \u2013 JR Sakuragi (\u201cThe American Star Of Japanese Basketball\u201d)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[145,84],"tags":[173,91,172,89,164,171,169,170,168],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletes","category-the-power-of-sports-podcast","tag-b-league","tag-basketball","tag-bjleague","tag-japan","tag-japanese-basketball","tag-jbl","tag-jr-henderson","tag-jr-sakuragi","tag-pro-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2026,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions\/2026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aaronlmiller.com\/alm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}