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Ira Brown of Team Japan looks on during the Men s Pool Round match between Latvia and Japan on Sunday at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. It s an honor to be Japanese, he said.
TOKYO They call him downtown Ira Brown.
His three pointers got him the nickname. For years he s played professional basketball in Japan. But he never dreamed he d get to the Olympic stage. Not in a million years, he said, shaking his head and laughing.
Let alone playing for his adopted country, in a sport that debuted at the Olympics for the first time in Tokyo. Three-on-three basketball is a ten-minute game. Three players on each team compete to 21 or to whichever team has the most points at the ten minute mark. It s a lot like the pick up games you d play in your driveway.
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