Beikong Fly Dragons

Beikong Fly Dragons
Leagues	CBA
Founded	2009
History	Guangzhou Free Man (2009–12) Chonqqing Fly Dragons (2012–15) Beikong Fly Dragons (2015–present)
Arena	Beijing National Indoor Stadium
Arena Capacity	6,000
Location	Beijing, China
Team colors	Gold, Black White
Main sponsor	Nanhai Corporation (2009-12) Black Valley (2012-15) Beijing BG / Beikong (2015-present)
Team manager	Lü Jinqing
Head coach	Wang Xidong
Ownership	Li Chunli
Uniforms
Home Away

The Beijing BG / Beikong Fly Dragons (simplified Chinese: 北京北控翱龙; traditional Chinese: 北京北控翺龍; pinyin: běi jīng běi kòng áo lóng) or Beijing Entertainment Group Basketball Franchise or Beikong Fly Dragons are a professional men's basketball team which is based in Beijing, China, and plays in the Northern Division of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). Beijing BG (known in Chinese as Beijing Beikong) is the club's corporate sponsor while its mascot is a fly dragon.

History

The franchise was founded in 2009 in Guangzhou and spent its first five seasons of existence competing at the lower levels of China's hardwood hierarchy. The team relocated to Chongqing in 2012. The club entered the CBA in the 2014–15 season as an expansion team and finished at the bottom of the league standings with a record of 4-34.

In September 2015, the club relocated again and was initially renamed Beijing BG^[1] but to avoid confusion with the city's association football team from the second-tier China League One, which is also called Beijing BG, or Beijing Beikong, as well as to avoid confusion with the Beijing Ducks when only the geographical names of CBA clubs are used—a large number of Chinese sports websites refer to the team as the Beikong Fly Dragons (the club's jerseys and official logo have always used the badly-translated English term "Fly Dragons" instead of "Flying Dragons" or "Soaring Dragons").^[2]

This practice is consistent with the way a lot of Chinese sports websites shorten the second Zhejiang team's name to Guangsha Lions and the second Jiangsu team's name to Tongxi Monkey Kings. So this means Beikong replaces Beijing as the club's "geographical" designation on such lists.^[3]

It remains to be seen whether the team will keep the "Fly Dragons" moniker over the long haul or switch to another nickname, since the CBA also has the Jiangsu Dragons and the Shanxi Brave Dragons monikers in place.

Roster

To be uploaded in future.

Notable Players

Current

• Esteban Batista (2015–16)
• Mehdi Kamrani (2015–16)

Former

• Josh Harrellson (2014–2015)
• Arsalan Kazemi (2014–2015)
• Willie Warren (2014–2015)
• Dorell Wright (2015–2016)

References