Shenzhen Leopards

Shenzhen Leopards
Shenzhen Leopards
Traditional Chinese	深圳領航者
Simplified Chinese	深圳领航者
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Shēnzhèn Lǐnghángzhě

Shenzhen Leopards
Shenzhen Leopards
Leagues	CBA
Founded	2003; 21 years ago
History	Dongguan New Century Leopards; (2003–2015); Shenzhen New Century Leopards; (2015–2019); Shenzhen Aviators; (2019–2021); Shenzhen Leopards; (2021–present)
Arena	Shenzhen Universiade Sports Centre
Capacity	18,000
Location	Longgang, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Team colors	White, Red, Gold;
Head coach	Zheng Yonggang (郑永刚)
Championships	None
Home	Away

The Shenzhen New Century Liebao Club, also known as Shenzhen Marco Polo or Shenzhen Leopards (previously Shenzhen Aviators) are a Chinese professional basketball team which plays in the Southern Division of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). New Century is the club's corporate sponsor.

The team is based in Longgang District, Shenzhen, Guangdong, and plays its home games at the Shenzhen Universiade Sports Centre (SUSC).

History

The club was founded in 2003 as Dongguan New Century Leopards and was initially located in Dongguan, Guangdong. After twelve seasons, the team relocated to nearby Shenzhen in 2015. Success came early in their existence for the Leopards, as they were the runners-up in the 2004 Chinese Basketball League (CBL) championship, and were promoted to the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) for the 2005–06 season.

In its first season in the CBA in 2005–06, Dongguan finished in seventh and last place in the South Division, and was out of the playoffs. The team would soon battle its way to respectability, however, becoming somewhat regular participants in the CBA's postseason over the ensuing years.

In July 2011, NBA point guard Jeremy Lin played for the team at the ABA Club Championship, and was named the MVP of the tournament.^[2]

On December 26, 2013, Bobby Brown scored a franchise-record 74 points in a game against Sichuan Blue Whales.^[3]

Current roster

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Shenzhen Leopards roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Wt.
C	0	Jared Sullinger	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	127 kg (280 lb)
SF	1	Wu Zihan	2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)	89 kg (196 lb)
SF	2	Lu Pengyu	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)	83 kg (183 lb)
G/F	3	He Xining	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)	90 kg (198 lb)
PG	4	Daryl Macon	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)	84 kg (185 lb)
G	5	Sun Haoqin	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)	84 kg (185 lb)
SG	6	Liu Changjiang	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)	80 kg (176 lb)
PG	8	Rong Zifeng	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)	82 kg (181 lb)
F	9	Zhou Peng	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	104 kg (229 lb)
PG	10	Bai Haotian	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)	87 kg (192 lb)
C	11	Shen Zijie	2.11 m (6 ft 11 in)	106 kg (234 lb)
F	12	Gu Quan	2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	98 kg (216 lb)
C	15	Hu Xiaolong	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	117 kg (258 lb)
SG	17	Ma Mingkun	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)	95 kg (209 lb)
C	21	Li Muhao	2.18 m (7 ft 2 in)	120 kg (265 lb)
PF/C	22	Liao Zhipeng	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)	100 kg (220 lb)
SF	25	Li Jinglong	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)	94 kg (207 lb)
PG	30	Jovan Novak	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	85 kg (187 lb)
PF	33	Wang Haoran	2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)	97 kg (214 lb)
G	35	Li Binzhuo	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)	81 kg (179 lb)

Head coach

Zheng Yonggang

Assistant coach(es)

Yu Shulong
Isidoros Kusos

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Roster

Updated: October 9, 2023

Notable players

- Set a club record or won an individual award as a professional player.
- Played at least one official international match for his senior national team at any time.

References

^ "Shenzhen Universiade Sports Center".
^ Robbins, Len (February 15, 2012). "Lin found game on other side of the world". The New York Post. Retrieved August 9, 2012.
^ Bobby Brown scores 74 points and the game winner in China!
^ ^a ^b Shenzhen beats Qingdao, Ningbo suffers 9th straight defeat China Internet Information Center, 6 November 2021. Accessed 8 November 2021.

External links

Shenzhen New Century Leopard Club at CBA website (in Chinese)

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[1] "Shenzhen Universiade Sports Center".

[2] Robbins, Len (February 15, 2012). "Lin found game on other side of the world". The New York Post. Retrieved August 9, 2012.

[3] Bobby Brown scores 74 points and the game winner in China!

[China.org.cn-4] Shenzhen beats Qingdao, Ningbo suffers 9th straight defeat China Internet Information Center, 6 November 2021. Accessed 8 November 2021.

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