Japan’s Yuki Kawamura, a 24-year-old point guard who played in the Paris Olympics and last season for Memphis, signed an NBA contract with Chicago on Tuesday, the club announced.<\/p>\n
The Bulls, who released forward Trentyn Flowers in a related move, completed a two-way deal with Kawamura, who averaged 20.3 points, 7.7 assists and 3.3 rebounds for Japan at the Olympics.<\/p>\n
In 22 games last season for Memphis, Kawamura averaged 1.6 points in a reserve role.<\/p>\n
Kawamura played for Chicago in two pre-season games in 2025, averaging 3.0 points, 4.0 rebounds and 4.0 assists.<\/p>\n
Kawamura spent five seasons in the Japanese B League starting at age 18, averaging 16.7 points, 7.3 assists and 3.0 rebounds and taking the Most Valuable Player award in 2023.<\/p>\n
The Bulls are 17-19 and rank ninth in the NBA Eastern Conference this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japan’s Yuki Kawamura, a 24-year-old point guard who played in the Paris Olympics and last season for Memphis,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[22985,7,66174,329,736,6,1220,66175,11,24240,6718,66],"class_list":["post-521362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba-playoffs","tag-afp","tag-basketball","tag-basketball-finals","tag-chicago-bulls","tag-men","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-nba-playoff-games","tag-nba-playoffs","tag-seasons-in-american-basketball","tag-seasons-in-american-sport","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115851063680935491","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}