Nakagawa is in his fifth year with the Wildcats after joining Lloyd's staff prior to the 2021-22 season. He served as the Director of Advanced Scouting for his first three seasons in Tucson before being elevated to assistant coach prior to the 2024-25 season.
In the Summer of 2025, Nakagawa served as an assistant coach for the Ugandan National Team for the 2025 FIBA Afrobasket tournament.
Before joining Lloyd at Arizona, Nakagawa spent the previous five seasons as part of the Gonzaga University men's basketball program, serving as a graduate assistant for two seasons (2016-18) and video coordinator for three years (2018-21). Prior that, he was a student manager and graduate assistant for Dan Monson at Long Beach State University from 2011-16.
He has also worked with the Japanese Basketball Association as an intern in 2017 and assistant video coordinator in 2018. He was part of the staff for the Japan U19 team that competed at the FIBA U19 World Cup in the summer of 2021.
He earned his undergraduate degree in Kinesiology from Long Beach State in 2016 and a master's degree in Organizational Leadership from Gonzaga in 2018.
