Our basketball team, led by head coach Choo Il-seung, will play two warm-up matches against Japan next month in preparation for the preliminary round of the Paris Olympics in August and the Hangzhou Asian Games in September.The Korea Basketball Association announced that it will hold a men’s national basketball team evaluation match between Korea and Japan at Jamsil Student Gymnasium in Seoul on the 22nd and 23rd of next month.The men’s basketball match between Korea and Japan is the first in five years since the two warm-up matches in Japan in June 2018, and South Korea recorded one win and one loss against Japan at that time.In the previous match between Korea and Japan, South Korea is leading with 41 wins and 16 losses, especially since the semifinals of the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, with 9 wins and 2 losses in the last 11 games.