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Toronto Raptors: Yuta Watanabe and Japan face tough road in Olympics

TAMPA, FLORIDA - APRIL 21: Yuta Watanabe #18 of the Toronto Raptors (Photo by Douglas P. DeFelice/Getty Images)

The Toronto Raptors are sending a few players to the Olympic Games in Tokyo this year, and while Nick Nurse and Team Canada might have to watch the Olympics on TV like the rest of us, rising forward Yuta Watanabe will try to make his country proud when he suits up for host nation Japan.

Watanabe, who was signed to a proper NBA contract after impressing Toronto on his two-year deal, will team with Washington Wizards forward Rui Hachimura and Melbourne United guard Yudai Baba in order to lead his country to heights that they have yet to reach as a basketball power.