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club based in

Dongguan Dongguan (; ) is a prefecture-level city in central Guangdong Province, China. An important industrial city in the Pearl River Delta, Dongguan borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the north, Huizhou to the northeast, Shenzhen to the s ...

Guangdong Guangdong (, ), alternatively romanized as Canton or Kwangtung, is a coastal province in South China on the north shore of the South China Sea. The capital of the province is Guangzhou. With a population of 126.01 million (as of 2020) ...

, playing in the

Women's Chinese Basketball Association The Women's Chinese Basketball Association (WCBA) is the first-tier professional women's basketball league in China. It was established in 2002 as the women's counterpart to the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). Current clubs There are cu ...

(WCBA). It was known as Guangdong Dolphins from 2007–2018 and Guangdong Kapok before 2007. The

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is a mythical creature in Chinese culture.

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Deanna Jackson Deanna Jackson (born December 15, 1979) is an American professional women's basketball player. Jackson attended college at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She competed with USA Basketball as a member of the 2000 Jones Cup Team that ...

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Chasity Melvin Chasity Melvin (born May 3, 1976) is a retired American professional basketball player, originally from Roseboro, North Carolina. A 6'3" (1.90 m) forward, Melvin entered the WNBA in 1999, and played for the Cleveland Rockers, the Washington My ...

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Swin Cash Swintayla Marie "Swin" Cash Canal (born September 22, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player who played professionally for 15 seasons in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She currently serves as vice preside ...

(2009–12) * Ashley Corral (2012) *

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Aneika Henry Aneika A. Henry (born February 13, 1986) is a Jamaican-Azerbaijani professional basketball player for OGM Orman Genclik Ankara of the Turkish Women's Basketball League.. Early life Henry was born in Jamaica. She was 11 years old when she and her ...

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Yelena Leuchanka Alena Leuchanka ( be, Алена Сцяпанаўна Леўчанка; born April 30, 1983) is a Belarusian professional women's basketball player who plays for Panathinaikos. Biography Prior to joining the Dream for their inaugural 2008 seaso ...

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Candace Parker Candace Nicole Parker (born April 19, 1986) is an American professional basketball player for the Chicago Sky of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She was selected as the first overall pick in the 2008 WNBA draft by the Los An ...

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Glory Johnson Glory Bassey Johnson (born July 27, 1990) is an American basketball player for Turkish club Beşiktaş. Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, she went to Webb School Of Knoxville and played collegiately for the University of Tennessee Lady Vols ...

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Amber Harris Amber Harris (born January 16, 1988) is a professional basketball player. She last played for the Chicago Sky of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball at Xavier. Xavier statistics Source WNBA Ha ...

(2017–18) * Yui Hanada (2009–10) * Yang Ya-hui (2015–17) * Xu Chunmei (2002) *

Pan Wei Pan Wei (; born 11 June 1978) is a Chinese former basketball 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 ...

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Song Xiaoyun Song Xiaoyun (), born 11 December 1982 in Anshan, Liaoning) is a Chinese basketball player who was part of the teams that won gold medals at the 2002 and 2006 Asian Games. She was part of the Chinese squad at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athe ...

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Guan Xin Guan Xin (; born 24 January 1987) is a basketball player for the China women's national basketball team The China women's national basketball team represents the People's Republic of China in international women's basketball tournaments. The ...

(2004–13) * Wei Wei (2004–14) *

Huang Hongpin Huang Hongpin (, born April 23, 1989) is a Chinese basketball player for Shanxi Flame Shanxi Xing Rui Flame is a professional women's basketball club located in Taiyuan, Shanxi, China, playing in the Women's Chinese Basketball Association (WCB ...

(2007–14, 2017–18)

References

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