TOKYO – Japan women’s guard Mai Yamamoto has signed a rest-of-season contract with the Las Vegas Aces, the WNBA club announced Friday.<\/p>\n
Known for her shooting ability and speed, the 26-year-old from Hiroshima Prefecture could become the fifth Japanese to compete in the WNBA should she appear in the current season that began in May.<\/p>\n
Yamamoto played for Japan in 3×3 at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021 and in 5×5 at the Paris Games in 2024, when she was the key figure for her country.<\/p>\n
The Toyota Antelopes in Japan’s W League announced Yamamoto’s departure from the club in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TOKYO – Japan women’s guard Mai Yamamoto has signed a rest-of-season contract with the Las Vegas Aces, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":769820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[99,434],"class_list":["post-769819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wnba","tag-sports","tag-wnba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=769819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/769819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/769820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=769819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=769819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=769819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}