Last season, Rui Hachimura helped save the Lakers.
Now the 6-foot-8, 230-pound forward is hoping to help save Earth — even though he’s in concussion protocol with the Lakers — by dunking an approaching meteorite into oblivion.
Or something like that. The details of Hachimura’s heroic endeavor will be revealed Saturday when a cartoon version of the Japanese basketball star appears on the anime series “Crayon Shin-chan,” in an episode with a title that translates to “The Adventures of Buri Buri Zaemon: Space Dunk Edition.”
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Hachimura provides his own voice for his character on the popular Japanese series, which debuted in 1992 and has aired more than 1,000 episodes.