The Tijuana Zonkeys are a Mexican professional

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team based in

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. The Zonkeys are part of the

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(CIBACOPA). They play their home games at the Auditorio Academia Zonkeys. The team was founded in 2010, and won back-to-back championships in 2014 and 2015. The name comes from the tradition of painting stripes on to donkeys to resemble zebras, a practice once common on the city's famed tourist strip,

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. Tourists would pay to take pictures with or on the zonkeys.

History

The team was founded in 2010 and entered the league the same year. It became the first professional basketball team to play in Tijuana since the LNBP's Cosmos de Tijuana and the Tijuana Dragons of the ABA. They won their first championship in 2014 with a 4-3 finals series win over Caballeros de Culiacán. They defeated the

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in the 2018 finals in a six-game series. In December 2019, ex-

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player

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was hired as head coach ahead of the 2020 season. They also opened a new arena, the Auditorio Academia Zonkeys, moving their home games from the

Auditorio Fausto Gutierrez Moreno Auditorio Fausto Gutierrez Moreno also known as Auditorio de Tijuana is an indoor arena in Tijuana, Mexico. It is primarily used for basketball and is the home field of the Tijuana Dragons Tijuana ( ,

Players

Current roster

Notable players

* Adrián Zamora *

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* Marcus Morrison * Luis "Chupa" Ramirez * Myke Ammons

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