The Beijing Royal Fighters () are a

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professional men's

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team which is based in

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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.

History

The franchise was founded in 2009 in

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and spent its first five seasons of existence competing in the lower levels of China's basketball league system. The team relocated to

Chongqing Chongqing ( or ; ; Sichuanese dialects, Sichuanese pronunciation: , Standard Mandarin pronunciation: ), Postal Romanization, alternately romanized as Chungking (), is a Direct-administered municipalities of China, municipality in Southwes ...

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,重庆翱龙正式变更为北京控股男篮
but to avoid confusion with the city's

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team, which is also called Beijing BG, as well as to avoid confusion with the Beijing Ducks when only the geographical names of the clubs are used, a large number of Chinese sports websites refer to the team as the Beikong Fly Dragons.

Current roster

Honours

Seri Mutiara Cup champion 2017

References

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