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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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Mihailo Vasic (9), of Serbia, shoots under pressure from Ira Brown, of Japan, during a men’s 3-on-3 basketball game at the 2020 Summer Olympics on July 26 in Tokyo. (AP Photo)
Serbia notched a thumping victory over host nation Japan on Monday to remain undefeated in the Olympic men’s 3x3 basketball tournament.
The top-seeded Serbian squad, led by Dusan Domovic Bulut, improved to 5-0 in the round-robin stage of the sport’s Olympic debut.
Japan slid to 1-4 after several narrow losses in the tournament, now in its third day at the Aomi Urban Sports Park in Tokyo. We’re missing opportunities. We’re not competing like we know how, said Japan’s Ira Brown, who was held to just one point in his team’s 11-21 loss.