Takuya Nakayama (born July 24, 1994) is a Japanese professional basketball player who plays for the Akita Northern Happinets of the B.League in Japan. He wears #17 because his mother, Yuko was born on the 17th day of the month. On April 22, 2017, Nakayama made the longest shot of the B.League at first quarter buzzer beater. On December 30, 2017, he hit another longest shot of the league at the third quarter buzzer beater.
He won the Steal leader award two years in a row.
|- |style="background-color:#FFCCCC" align="left" | 2016-17 | align="left" | Akita |22 ||5 || 16.5 ||45.9 || 40.7 ||66.7 || 2.0 || 1.2 || 0.9 ||0.1 || 4.7 |- | align="left" | 2017-18 | align="left" | Akita |56 ||44 || 24 ||45.7 || 31.7 ||59.4 || 4.3 || 3.8 || bgcolor="CFECEC"|2.1* ||0.1 || 8.5 |- | align="left" | 2018-19 | align="left" | Akita | 58 || 44 || 29.9 ||40.8 ||18.5 || 62.2 ||4.8 ||5.4 ||bgcolor="CFECEC"|2.2* ||0.1||7.3 |- | align="left" | 2019-20 | align="left" | Akita | 32 || 17 || 23.7 ||46.7 ||29.4 || 59.6 ||3.7 ||3.6 ||2.1 ||0.0||6.7 |- | align="left" | 2020-21 | align="left" | Akita | 56 || 21 || 22.8 ||.405 ||.256 || .724 ||3.5 ||3.2 ||1.5 ||0.0||6.8 |-
|- |style="text-align:left;"|2016-17 |style="text-align:left;"|Akita | 2 || || 23.0 || .500 || .333 || 1.000 || 2.0 || 0.5 || 2.0 || 0 || 5.5 |- |style="text-align:left;"|2017-18 |style="text-align:left;"|Akita | 5 || 3 || 20:37 || .265 || .250 || .500 || 5.4 || 3.4 || 1.4 || 0 || 4.4 |-
|- |style="text-align:left;"|2017 |style="text-align:left;"|Akita | 2 || 1 || 18:22 || .385 || .167 || 1.000 || 4.5 || 1.5 || 1.5 || 0 || 5.0 |- |style="text-align:left;"|2018 |style="text-align:left;"|Akita |2 || 2 || 27:49 || .444 || .000 || .500 || 5.0 || 3.0 || 3.5 || 0 || 5.5 |- |style="text-align:left;"|2019 |style="text-align:left;"|Akita |2 || 2 || 25:14 || .333 || 1.000 || 1.000 || 5.5 || 1.5 || 1.0|| 0.5 || 3.5 |-
|- | align="left" |2018 | align="left" | Akita | 2 || 1 || 27.4 || .100 ||.000 || 1.000||4.0 || 5.0||2.5 || 0.0 || 3.0 |- | align="left" |2019 | align="left" | Akita | 3 || 1 || 21.9 || .412 ||.000 || .857||2.3 || 4.3||4.3 || 0.0 || 5.7 |-
<small>Source: Changwon1Changwon2</small> <small>Source: UtsunomiyaToyamaSendai</small>
He plays with Nike Kyrie Low 2 basketball shoes and Stance socks and wears Air Force 1 Foamposite Pro Cup shoes on the Akita's snowy streets.
His one-handed overhead pass to his side is called "Sheeeh! pass", because it looks like in Japanese cartoon, Osomatsu-kun.