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Guard Yuki Kawamura signed a two-way contract with the Memphis Grizzlies on Saturday, becoming the first Japanese player from the country’s B-League with a chance to make his National Basketball Association debut in the United States. Memphis will begin the new season Wednesday against the Utah Jazz and the 23-year-old is in line to become the fourth Japanese player to make an NBA debut after Yuta Tabuse in 2004 with the Phoenix Suns, Yuta Watanabe in 2018 with Memphis, a two-way contract at the time, and Rui Hachimura in 2019 with the Washington Wizards. A Yamaguchi Prefecture native, Kawamur…

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