Guangzhou Long-Lions

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Guangzhou Long-Lions
Guangzhou Long-Lions logo.png
League CBA
Founded2000;19 years ago (2000)
HistoryShaanxi Gaitianli Kylins
(2000–2010)
Foshan Dralions
(2010–2014)
Foshan Long-Lions
(2014–2016)
Guangzhou Long-Lions
(2016–present)
Arena Tianhe Gymnasium
Foshan International Sports and Cultural Center
Capacity8,628 and 14,700
Location Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
Team colorsRed, Navy, White
            
Head coach Juan Antonio Orenga
Website www.longlions.com
Uniforms
Guangzhou Long-Lions
Traditional Chinese 時代中國廣州龍獅籃球隊
Simplified Chinese 时代中国广州龙狮篮球队
Guangzhou Long-Lions
Traditional Chinese 廣州龍獅
Simplified Chinese 广州龙狮
Foshan Long-Lions
Traditional Chinese 佛山龍獅
Simplified Chinese 佛山龙狮
Shaanxi Gaitianli Kylins
Traditional Chinese 陝西東盛麒麟
Simplified Chinese 陕西东盛麒麟

The Guangzhou Long-Lions (Chinese :广州龙狮, formerly the Shaanxi Gaitianli Kylins) are a professional basketball team which plays in the Chinese Basketball Association, and is based in Guangzhou, Guangdong. In 2010, the Shaanxi Kylins moved from Xi'an, Shaanxi, to Foshan, and renamed themselves the Foshan Dralions.

Simplified Chinese characters standardized Chinese characters developed in mainland China

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Basketball team sport played on a court with baskets on either end

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball through the defender's hoop while preventing the opposing team from shooting through their own hoop. A field goal is worth two points, unless made from behind the three-point line, when it is worth three. After a foul, timed play stops and the player fouled or designated to shoot a technical foul is given one or more one-point free throws. The team with the most points at the end of the game wins, but if regulation play expires with the score tied, an additional period of play (overtime) is mandated.

Chinese Basketball Association basketball association

The Chinese Basketball Association, often abbreviated as CBA, is the first-tier professional men's basketball league in China. It is widely regarded as the preeminent professional men's basketball league in Asia.

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History

The team was founded in November 2000 by the Xi'an Dongsheng Group (西安东盛(企业)集团, Pinyin: Xīān Dōngshèng (Qǐyè) Jítuán). In August 2001, they won the "B" league championship, and were "promoted" to the CBA. A kylin is a type of mythical Chinese creature. In the 2004–2005 season, the Shaanxi Kylins finished in fifth place in the North Division, and out of the playoffs. In 2005–2006, they finished sixth, and once again out of the playoffs. The team was scheduled to participate in the 2008 season of the International Basketball League. They were replaced by the Shanxi Brave Dragons.

Hanyu Pinyin, often abbreviated to pinyin, is the official romanization system for Standard Chinese in mainland China and to some extent in Taiwan. It is often used to teach Standard Mandarin Chinese, which is normally written using Chinese characters. The system includes four diacritics denoting tones. Pinyin without tone marks is used to spell Chinese names and words in languages written with the Latin alphabet, and also in certain computer input methods to enter Chinese characters.

Qilin mystical Chinese creature

The qilin, or kirin in Japanese, is a mythical hooved chimerical creature known in Chinese and other East Asian cultures, said to appear with the imminent arrival or passing of a sage or illustrious ruler. Qilin is a specific type of the lin mythological family of one-horned beasts.

The International Basketball League (IBL) was a semi-professional men's basketball league featuring teams from the West Coast of the United States. In 2010 the Albany Legends became the first team in the Northeastern United States to join. The IBL also sometimes featured teams from China and Japan which temporarily relocated to the United States for the IBL season. The IBL season typically ran from the end of March through July.

The club opted to start rendering its English name as "Long-Lions" rather than the odd portmanteau "Dralions" before the start of the 2014–15 CBA season. A "Long-Lion" or "Dralion" is a mythical creature from ancient Chinese mythology which possesses the attributes of both a Chinese Dragon (pronounced as "long" in Chinese) and a lion.

A portmanteau or portmanteau word is a linguistic blend of words, in which parts of multiple words or their phones (sounds) are combined into a new word, as in smog, coined by blending smoke and fog, or motel, from motor and hotel. In linguistics, a portmanteau is defined as a single morph that represents two or more morphemes.

Chinese mythology mythology

Chinese mythology is mythology that has been passed down in oral form or recorded in literature in the geographic area now known as "China". Chinese mythology includes many varied myths from regional and cultural traditions. Chinese mythology is far from monolithic, not being an integrated system, even among just Han people. Chinese mythology is encountered in the traditions of various classes of people, geographic regions, historical periods including the present, and from various ethnic groups. China is the home of many mythological traditions, including that of Han Chinese and their Huaxia predecessors, as well as Tibetan mythology, Turkic mythology, Korean mythology, and many others. However, the study of Chinese mythology tends to focus upon material in Chinese language. Much of the mythology involves exciting stories full of fantastic people and beings, the use of magical powers, often taking place in an exotic mythological place or time. Like many mythologies, Chinese mythology has in the past been believed to be, at least in part, a factual recording of history. Along with Chinese folklore, Chinese mythology forms an important part of Chinese folk religion. Many stories regarding characters and events of the distant past have a double tradition: ones which present a more historicized or euhemerized version and ones which presents a more mythological version. Many myths involve the creation and cosmology of the universe and its deities and inhabitants. Some mythology involves creation myths, the origin of things, people and culture. Some involve the origin of the Chinese state. Some myths present a chronology of prehistoric times, many of these involve a culture hero who taught people how to build houses, or cook, or write, or was the ancestor of an ethnic group or dynastic family. Mythology is intimately related to ritual. Many myths are oral associations with ritual acts, such as dances, ceremonies, and sacrifices.

In 2016, the Foshan Long-Lions moved from Foshan, Guangdong, to Guangzhou, Guangdong, and renamed themselves the Guangzhou Long-Lions. [1] In 2017, Nanhai Long-Lions was founded as the affiliate team and competes at the ASEAN Basketball League. [2]

Foshan Prefecture-level city in Guangdong, Peoples Republic of China

Foshan, formerly romanized as Fatshan, is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China. The entire prefecture covers 3,848.49 km2 (1,485.91 sq mi) and has an urban population around 7.2 million in 2012. It forms part of the western side of the Pearl River Delta Economic Zone, which includes Guangzhou to the east and northeast and Zhongshan to the southeast.

Guangdong Most populous province of the Peoples Republic of China

Guangdong is a province in South China, on the South China Sea coast. Guangdong surpassed Henan and Shandong to become the most populous province in China in January 2005, registering 79.1 million permanent residents and 31 million migrants who lived in the province for at least six months of the year; the total population was 104,303,132 in the 2010 census, accounting for 7.79 percent of Mainland China's population. This also makes it the most populous first-level administrative subdivision of any country outside of South Asia, as its population is surpassed only by those of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the Indian states of Bihar, Maharashtra and Uttar Pradesh. The provincial capital Guangzhou and economic hub Shenzhen are among the most populous and important cities in China. The population increase since the census has been modest, the province registering 108,500,000 people in 2015.

Guangzhou Prefecture-level and Sub-provincial city in Guangdong, Peoples Republic of China

Guangzhou, also known as Canton, is the capital and most populous city of the province of Guangdong in southern China. On the Pearl River about 120 km (75 mi) north-northwest of Hong Kong and 145 km (90 mi) north of Macau, Guangzhou has a history of over 2,200 years and was a major terminus of the maritime Silk Road, and continues to serve as a major port and transportation hub, as well as one of China's three largest cities.

Players

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationality not displayed.

FIBA International basketball governing body

The International Basketball Federation, more commonly known as FIBA, from its French name Fédération internationale de basket-ball, is an association of national organizations which governs the sport of basketball worldwide. Originally known as the Fédération internationale de basket-ball amateur, in 1989 it dropped the word amateur from its name but retained the acronym; the "BA" now represents the first two letters of basketball.

Guangzhou Long-Lions roster
PlayersCoaches
Pos.No.Nat.NameHt.Wt.
G 2 Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Chen Ying-chun 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)89 kg (196 lb)
F 3 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Shi Jun 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)83 kg (183 lb)
F 5 Flag of the United States.svg Marreese Speights 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)116 kg (256 lb)
C 6 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhang Xiaolei 2.07 m (6 ft 9 in)88 kg (194 lb)
F 7 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Gu Yuezhuo 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)86 kg (190 lb)
F 8 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Ju Mingxin 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in)94 kg (207 lb)
G 9 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Luo Xudong 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)81 kg (179 lb)
F 10 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhu Xuhang 2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)87 kg (192 lb)
C 13 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Fan Ziming 2.10 m (6 ft 11 in)115 kg (254 lb)
F 14 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Guo Kai 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in)95 kg (209 lb)
F 15 Flag of Chinese Taipei for Olympic games.svg Hu Long-mao 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)95 kg (209 lb)
G 18 Flag of the United States.svg Kyle Fogg 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)85 kg (187 lb)
G 21 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Heng Yifeng 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)86 kg (190 lb)
G 23 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zhang Fan 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)80 kg (176 lb)
F 25 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Liu Zihao 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)97 kg (214 lb)
F 32 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Wang Yue 2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)94 kg (207 lb)
C 50 Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zheng Zhun 2.14 m (7 ft 0 in)97 kg (214 lb)
Head coach
  • Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Juan Antonio Orenga
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • Cruz Roja.svg Injured
Updated: January 4, 2019

Games against NBA teams

On 2 October 2017, Guangzhou Long-Lions played a pre-season game with Washington Wizards at Capital One Arena, which made them the second CBA club against the NBA club. [3]

Washington Wizards professional basketball team in the National Basketball Association

The Washington Wizards are an American professional basketball team based in Washington, D.C. The Wizards compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Southeast Division. The team plays its home games at the Capital One Arena, in the Chinatown neighborhood of Washington, D.C.

Capital One Arena Multi-purpose arena in Washington, D.C.

Capital One Arena is an indoor arena in Washington, D.C. Owned by Monumental Sports & Entertainment, it is the home arena of the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League, the Washington Wizards of the National Basketball Association, the Georgetown University men's basketball team, and the Washington Valor of the Arena Football League. It was also home to the Washington Mystics of the Women's National Basketball Association from 1998 to 2018, but that team will move to the new St. Elizabeths East Arena in southeast Washington, beginning with the 2019 season.

2 October 2017
Guangzhou Long-Lions Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg 96–126 Flag of the United States.svg Washington Wizards
12 October 2018
Guangzhou Long-Lions Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg 111–140 Flag of the United States.svg Washington Wizards

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References

  1. ↑ 官宣：佛山龙狮新赛季迁至广州 (in Chinese)
  2. ↑ “南海龙狮队”组建成功 将战东南亚联赛
  3. ↑ 广州:交手NBA球队非常有意义 全队都狠兴奋
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