{"id":822056,"date":"2026-08-27T20:24:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T20:24:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/822056\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T20:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T20:24:16","slug":"hachimura-scored-29-points-as-japan-defeated-saudi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/822056\/","title":{"rendered":"Hachimura scored 29 points as Japan defeated Saudi \u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rui Hachimura delivered a near-perfect offensive performance for Japan against Saudi Arabia in the 2027 FIBA World Cup Asian Qualifiers. <a data-ylk=\"slk:Hachimura scored 29 points as Japan defeated Saudi Arabia 106-78. The LA Clippers forward needed only 27 minutes to lead his team to the road win;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Hachimura scored 29 points as Japan defeated Saudi Arabia 106-78. The LA Clippers forward needed only 27 minutes to lead his team to the road win&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-254480-rui-hachimura-shines-in-japan-return-with-huge-29-point-night.html?utm_campaign=mrf-bn-twitterBasketNews_com&amp;utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;mrfcid=202608276a9086b503539948e799ccb4\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Hachimura scored 29 points as Japan defeated Saudi Arabia 106-78. The LA Clippers forward needed only 27 minutes to lead his team to the road win<\/a>. Hachimura shot 11-of-13 from the field. He made 8-of-9 two-pointers, 3-of-4 threes and all four of his free throws. He also added four rebounds, two assists, two steals, one block and finished with a game-high 36 efficiency rating.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rui Hachimura delivered a near-perfect offensive performance for Japan against Saudi Arabia in the 2027 FIBA World Cup&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":822057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3789],"tags":[7,559,29027,4298,4034,192,4032,251,135,4033,4031,6,1012,14512],"class_list":["post-822056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-clippers","tag-basketball","tag-clippers","tag-fiba-world-cup","tag-japan","tag-la","tag-la-clippers","tag-laclippers","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesclippers","tag-nba","tag-rui-hachimura","tag-saudi-arabia"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/117169347881489373","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822056","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=822056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/822057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}