Eastern Sports Club (basketball)
Eastern Sports Club | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Nickname | Eastern Long Lions |
Leagues | A1 Division Hong Kong ASEAN Basketball League |
Founded | 1932 |
Arena | Southorn Stadium |
Capacity | 2,000 |
Location | Hong Kong |
Head coach | Željko Pavličević |
Ownership | Eastern Sports Club |
Championships | A1 Division Hong Kong: 1 (2018) ASEAN Basketball League: 1 (2016) |
Website | basketball |
Eastern Long Lions basketball team | |||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Traditional Chinese | 東方龍獅籃球隊 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 东方龙狮篮球队 | ||||||||||
|
The Eastern basketball team (Chinese: 東方籃球隊), is a professional men's basketball team of the Eastern Sports Club.[1] The team also known as Chinese: 東方男籃; lit. 'Eastern Men's Basketball' and Eastern Long Lions for sponsorship reason. The team competes in the Hong Kong A1 Division[2][3] and the ASEAN Basketball League since 2016.[4]
History[]
![]() | This article or section appears to be slanted towards recent events. (January 2019) |
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/db/Eastern_Long_Lions_logo.jpg/200px-Eastern_Long_Lions_logo.jpg)
Eastern basketball team is a section of Eastern Sports Club (officially known as Eastern Athletic Association Football Team Limited). In 2015 season the team won and promoted to 2016 Hong Kong A1 Division Championship.[2] The team became fully professional in 2016.[2][3] In 2016, the team also participated in ASEAN Basketball League (ABL).
In the same year, the club signed a sponsorship deal with Zhong Naixiong, owner of Nenking Group.[5] Thus the club was also known as Eastern Long Lions. He also became the vice-president (Chinese: 副會長)[nb 1] of the sport club.[5] Zhong also sponsored Foshan Long Lions,[5] another basketball team based in Foshan and Guangzhou in Mainland China. In 2017, there was another short-lived "Long Lions" basketball team from Nanhai, Foshan.[7][8] Both Eastern Long Lions and Nanhai Long Lions participated in 2017–18 ABL season.
Current roster[]
2021–22 ASEAN Basketball League roster[]
Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.
Hong Kong Eastern Long Lions roster | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Players | Coaches | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Updated: 12 Sep 2021 |
Notable players[]
![]() | This section does not cite any sources. (January 2019) |
- To appear in this section a player must have either:
- Set a club record or won an individual award as a professional player.
- Played at least one official international match for his senior national team or one NBA game at any time.
Local players[]
|
Import players[]
|
|
Footnotes[]
References[]
- ^ "Hong Kong Eastern". ASEAN Basketball League. Retrieved 29 April 2018.
- ^ a b c 東方來季組香港史上首支全職籃球隊!. sportsroad.hk (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Hong Kong. 8 July 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- ^ a b "Eastern set aside HK$10 million to become first professional basketball team in Hong Kong". South China Morning Post (in en-hk). Hong Kong. 9 July 2015. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
{{cite news}}
: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ^ "Hong Kong Eastern Long Lions Confirms Participation In ABL". ASEAN Basketball League. 30 July 2016. Retrieved 23 November 2016.
- ^ a b c 白武士鍾乃雄HK足球有價值 [White knight Zhong Naixiong: HK football has its value]. Oriental Daily News (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Hong Kong: Oriental Press Group. 22 November 2016. Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- ^ 關於東方龍獅 [About Eastern Long Lions] (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Eastern Sports Club. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- ^ Li, Matthew (17 October 2017). ABL季前發布會 東方男籃球衣曝光 [ABL pre-season press conference Eastern Men's Basketball unveils their shirts]. U Power (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Retrieved 7 January 2019.
- ^ Li, Matthew (21 November 2017). ABL添澳門元素 功夫小子「搣走」南海「牽手」忠信 [ABL add Macau elements: "Kung Fu" drop "Nanhai" and add "Chong Son" to their name]. U Power (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Retrieved 7 January 2019.
External links[]
- Official website
(in Chinese)
- Eastern Sports Club (basketball)
- ASEAN Basketball League teams
- Basketball teams in Hong Kong
- Basketball teams established in 1932
- Eastern Sports Club
- 1932 establishments in Hong Kong