Yuta Watanabe doesn’t know if he’ll be back in New York next season, but he told NBA Japan that he hopes that fellow countryman Shohei Ohtani will be!
“As rumored, it would be great if he came to New York,” Watanabe told Daisuke Sugiura, according to a Google translation of the report. “I wish I knew if I would stay in New York or not, but I’m going to be an FA, so I don’t know what will happen. Am I recruiting to move to New York? Well, I really want you to come to New York!