Kosuke Takeuchi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Kosuke Takeuchi

Japanese basketball player

Date of Birth: 29-Jan-1985

Place of Birth: Ōsaka, Ōsaka Prefecture, Japan

Profession: basketball player

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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About Kosuke Takeuchi

  • Kosuke Takeuchi (?? ???born January 29, 1985 in Suita, Osaka, Japan) is a Japanese professional basketball player.
  • He plays for the Link Tochigi Brex of the B.League. Takeuchi also is a member of the Japan national basketball team, playing for the team in the 2006 FIBA World Championship and both the FIBA Asia Championship 2007 and FIBA Asia Championship 2009.As a 21-year-old, Takeuchi averaged 5.4 points and 4.4 rebounds per game for the host Japanese at the 2006 FIBA World Championship.
  • Takeuchi has earned a bigger role with the Japanese team over the past four years; his best tournament performance to date was at the FIBA Asia Championship 2009, in which he averaged 13 points and a team-leading 8.2 rebounds per game.
  • Despite his performance, Japan stumbled to a disappointing tenth-place finish, its worst ever performance in 24 FIBA Asia Championship appearances.
  • He was invited to play with the Minnesota Timberwolves during the 2010 summer league in Las Vegas in 2010. Takeuchi played professionally with the Aisin Seahorses of the JBL Super League.
  • In the 2009-10 season, Takeuchi entered the month-long winter break averaging 15.4 points and 11.3 rebounds per game for the first-place Seahorses.
  • He was also named to the JBL All-Star Game as the leading power forward vote-getter for the West.

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