Bay Area Dragons

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Bay Area Dragons
Bay Area Dragons 2021-2023 logo.png
Leagues East Asia Super League
Philippine Basketball Association (guest team)
Founded2021
Dissolved2023
HistoryBay Area Chun Yu Phoenixes [lower-alpha 1] (2021–2022)
Bay Area Dragons (2022–2023)
Chun Yu Bay Area Dragons [lower-alpha 1] (2023)
Arena Southorn Stadium
Capacity1,995
Location Hong Kong
Ownership East Asia Super League (franchise)

The Bay Area Dragons were a professional basketball team in the East Asia Super League. Based in Hong Kong, the team was meant to represent the Greater China region.

Contents

Established in 2021, the team competed in the 2022–23 PBA Commissioner's Cup in the Philippines as a guest team and in the 2023 EASL Champions Week. They were disbanded in September 2023.

History

Formation

The Dragons were originally formed as the Bay Area Chun Yu Phoenixes, a franchise team for the East Asia Super League, representing Greater China. Hong Kong was made as the home venue of the Phoenixes. [1] Both the Phoenixes and the P. League+ champions of Taiwan were designated by the EASL as Greater China's representatives. [2]

The team was established under the agreement of the Hong Kong Basketball Association and Chun Yu Basketball Club. [3] The Phoenixes are the only franchise team in the EASL, with other participating teams seeded from domestic leagues from Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and the Philippines. [1]

Former Chinese Basketball Association general manager Liu Quansheng was appointed as the team's first general manager. [3] [4]

Participation in the PBA

They entered the 2022–23 Commissioner's Cup of the Philippine Basketball Association which started in September 2022 as a guest team. [5] [6] The team also changed their name to the "Bay Area Dragons" upon joining the PBA, to avoid confusion with the Phoenix Super LPG Fuel Masters. [7] [8] [9] In May 2022, former NBL coach and incumbent Australia Boomers head coach Brian Goorjian was announced as the team's first head coach. [10]

The Bay Area Dragons reached the 2022–23 PBA Commissioner's Cup Finals, becoming the fourth guest team to reach the last stage of a PBA competition. [11] They could only field one of their two foreign players or import at a time in selected games. [12] However, they would lose to the Barangay Ginebra San Miguel, 4–3. [13]

EASL Champions Week

The Dragons took part in the 2023 EASL Champions Week tournament where they finished third. [14]

Planned PBA return and 2023–24 EASL participation

They are set to return in the Commissioner's Cup of the 2023–24 PBA season. However, they would be allowed to field one import for the whole conference. [15] [16] They underwent a rebrand and renamed themselves as the Chun Yu Bay Area Dragons. They were set to return to Hong Kong with their PBA games planned to be held there. [17] The team which were also set to take part in the 2023–24 EASL season would sign five new players and retain eight players. [18]

Disbandment

The Dragons' participation in the PBA and EASL was effectively cancelled after the EASL announced the Dragons's disbandment on 1 September 2023 reportedly due to financial reasons. [19] The EASL mentions "conflict of interest" for managing a team and organizing the league at the same time, as the official reason for dissolving the club. [20]

Home venue

The Southorn Stadium, an indoor arena in Wan Chai, Hong Kong was the designated home venue of the Dragons. [21] [22] However they never played any competitive EASL or PBA games in the venue since the team got disbanded.

Season-by-season records

SeasonLeagueFinishWinsLosses Win% Playoffs
2022–23 PBA
(Commissioner's)		2nd177.588Won Quarterfinals (Rain or Shine) 1–0
Won Semifinals (San Miguel) 3–1
Lost Finals (Barangay Ginebra) 3–4
EASL 3rd21.667Won Third place game (Ryukyu) 90–70
2023–24 PBA
(Commissioner's)		Withdrew
EASL Withdrew

List of notable personnel

Players

Coaches

2022–23 season roster

2022–23 Bay Area Dragons roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.Nat.NameHt.Wt.Age
G 0 Flag of the United States.svg Scotty Ewing 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)161 lb (73 kg)1991–04–10
G 1 Flag of Hong Kong.svg Glen Yang 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m)190 lb (86 kg)1996–08–30
G 2 Flag of the Philippines.svg Sedrick Barefield 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)190 lb (86 kg)1996–11–18
F 6 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Si Kun 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)203 lb (92 kg)1995–02–27
F 8 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhu Songwei 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)226 lb (103 kg)1996–11–09
F 9 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Ju Mingxin 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)205 lb (93 kg)1993–03–10
F 11 Flag of Australia (converted).svg Hayden Blankley 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)212 lb (96 kg)2000–07–04
G 13 Flag of the United States.svg Myles Powell  (I)6 ft 2 in (1.88 m)195 lb (88 kg)1997–07–07
G/F 15 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Warren Liang 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)198 lb (90 kg)1993–09–19
F 16 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Song Jianhua 6 ft 5 in (1.96 m)204 lb (93 kg)1991–01–20
C 21 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Liu Chuanxing 7 ft 5 in (2.26 m)287 lb (130 kg)1999–07–30
G/F 22 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Kobey Lam 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)170 lb (77 kg)2000–03–02
F 25 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zheng Qilong 6 ft 8 in (2.03 m)198 lb (90 kg)1996–04–10
C 31 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhang Zhiyuan 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)220 lb (100 kg)1999–05–08
F/C 33 Flag of Hong Kong.svg Duncan Reid 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m)220 lb (100 kg)1989–09–28
F/C 44 Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Andrew Nicholson  (I)6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)250 lb (113 kg)1989–12–08
Head coach
Assistant coach(es)
Team manager


Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • (I) Import
  • (DP) Unsigned draft pick
  • (FA) Free agent
  • (IN) Inactive
  • (S) Suspended
  • (R) Rookie
  • (3x3) Assigned to 3x3 team
  • Cruz Roja.svg Injured

Honours

Philippine Basketball Association (PBA):

Runners-up (1): 2022–23 Commissioner's Cup

Notes

  1. 1 2 Never competed under these names

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