Guangdong Hongyuan Southern Tigers (广东宏远宝玛仕华南虎) or Guangdong Southern Tigers or Guangdong Hongyuan are a basketball team in the South Division of the Chinese Basketball Association, based in Dongguan, Guangdong. Basketball Basketball is a ball sport in which two teams of five players each try to score points by throwing a ball through a hoop. ... The Chinese Basketball Association, commonly known as the CBA, is the premier professional basketball league in the Peoples Republic of China and has been in existence since 1995. ... Dongguan (Simplified Chinese: 东莞; Traditional Chinese: 東莞; pinyin: Dōngguān) is an important industrial prefecture-level city in the Pearl River Delta, in the Guangdong Province of southern China. ... Guangdong (Simplified Chinese: 广东; Traditional Chinese: 廣東; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Kuang-tung; Postal System Pinyin: Kwangtung or Canton Province, Jyutping: gwong2 dung1), is a province on the south coast of the Peoples Republic of China. ...

They won the CBA championship in the 2003–2004 and 2004–2005 seasons, and are thus the defending champions.

In the 2004–2005 season, the Guangdong Southern Tigers finished in second place in the South Division, defeated the Jilin Northeast Tigers in the quarter-finals and the Bayi Rockets in the semi-finals, and defeated the Jiangsu Dragons in the finals. Jilin Tonggang Northeast Tigers (吉林通钢东北虎) or Jilin Northeast Tigers or Jilin Tonggang are a basketball team in the North Division of the Chinese Basketball Association, based in Jilin. ... Bayi Shuanglu Rockets (八一双鹿电池火箭) or Bayi Rockets or Bayi Army Rockets or Bayi Shuanglu are a basketball team in the South Division of the Chinese Basketball Association, based in Ningbo, Zhejiang. ... Jiangsu Nangang Dragons (江苏南钢龙同曦) or Jiangsu Dragons or Jiangsu Nangang are a basketball team in the South Division of the Chinese Basketball Association, based in Nanjing, Jiangsu. ...

The team currently employs Yi Jianlian, once and still may be considered a top prospect for the NBA draft. His age is mysterious and ranges from 18-21. Under current CBA policy, a player may not choose to enter the draft until he is 22 years of age, placing Yi Jianlian's draft class somewhere between 2006 and 2009.

External links

• Official site (in Chinese)
• http://sports.sina.com.cn/cba/team/guangdong/index.shtml (in Chinese)