The Bay Area Dragons is a basketball team in the

East Asia Super League The East Asia Super League (Simplified Chinese:东亚超级联赛; Traditional Chinese: 東亞超級聯賽; Korean: 동아시아 슈퍼리그; Japanese: 東アジアスーパーリーグ), abbreviated as EASL, is a basketball league featuring cl ...

. Based in

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

, the team is meant to represent

Greater China Greater China is an informal geographical area that shares commercial and cultural ties with the Han Chinese people. The notion of "Greater China" refers to the area that usually encompasses Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan in East ...

History

The Dragons were originally formed as the Bay Area Chun Yu Phoenixes as a franchise team for the

as a representative team for

, with the core of the team intended to consist of players from mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan.

was made as the home venue of the Phoenixes. While the team is meant to represent Greater China, the Phoenixes are seeded as a team from Hong Kong. Both the Phoenixes and the P. League+ champions of

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the nort ...

were designated by the EASL as Greater China's representatives. The team was established under the agreement of the Hong Kong Basketball Association and the existing second-tier Chun Yu Basketball Club. 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. Former

Chinese Basketball Association The Chinese Basketball Association (), often abbreviated as the CBA, is the first-tier professional men's basketball league in China. The league is commonly known by fans as the CBA, and this acronym is even used in Chinese on a regular basis ...

general manager Liu Quansheng was appointed as the team's first general manager. They are also set to play at the 2022–23 PBA Commissioner's Cup of the

Philippine Basketball Association The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is a men's professional basketball league in the Philippines composed of twelve company-branded franchised teams. Founded in 1975, it is the first professional basketball league in Asia and is the se ...

as a guest team. The team also changed their name to the "Bay Area Dragons" upon joining the PBA, to avoid confusion with the

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. Accordingly the team made Metro Manila as its temporary home for at least a year due to COVID-19-related restrictions in Hong Kong. In May 2022, former NBL coach and incumbent Australia Boomers head coach

Brian Goorjian Brian Warwick Goorjian (born 28 July 1953) is an American-Australian professional basketball coach and former player served as the head coach of the Bay Area Dragons of the East Asia Super League (EASL). He is also currently the head coach of th ...

was announced as the team's first head coach.

Roster

References

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External links

Bay Area Dragons
– East Asia Super League Profile 2021 establishments in Hong Kong basketball teams established in 2021 Basketball teams in Hong Kong