Beijing Ducks

Beijing Ducks
Beijing Ducks
Chinese	北京金隅鸭
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Běijīng Jīnyú Yā
Wade–Giles	Pei3 ching1 Chin1yü2 ya1
Yue: Cantonese
Yale Romanization	Bei3 jing1 Jin1 yu4 ya1
Jyutping	Baak1 ging1 Gam1 jyu4 aap4

Beijing Ducks
Beijing Ducks
League	CBA
Founded	1956; 68 years ago
History	Beijing Basketball Team ; (1956–1988) ; Beijing Ducks ; (1988–present)
Arena	Cadillac Arena
Capacity	17,178
Location	Beijing, China
Team colors	Steel blue, Black, White;
Main sponsor	Shougang Steel ; (1988–2003) ; Wanfeng Aote ; (2003–2004) ; Jinyu Group ; (2004–2011) ; Shougang Steel ; (2011–present); BAIC Group ; (2023–present)
Head coach	Xu Limin
Championships	3 (2012, 2014, 2015)
Retired numbers	2 (15, 51)

The Beijing Shougang Ducks (simplified Chinese: 北京首钢霹雳鸭俱乐部篮球队), also known as Beijing Shougang or Beijing Ducks, are a professional basketball team based in Beijing, China, which plays in the North Division of the Chinese Basketball Association. The Shougang Corporation is the club's corporate sponsor while its mascot is a duck.

The team was formerly known as the Beijing Jinyu Ducks or Beijing Jinyu (北京金隅, běijīng jīnyü). The name change was due to a change in corporate sponsorship. This organization should not be confused with the Beijing Olympians, a different club, which was founded in 1955.

For at least part of the 2003–04 CBA season, the Ducks were known as Beijing Wanfeng Aote (北京万丰奥特). Their naming rights were then assumed by the "Beijing Jinyu Group Co., Ltd.", a prominent construction materials conglomerate in China.^{[citation needed]}

History

Beijing Ducks playing against Xinjiang Flying Tigers in the Shougang Basketball Centre, Shijingshan District, Beijing

The Beijing Ducks were initially formed as the Beijing Men's Basketball Team in 1956. In October of that same year, the National Basketball League's season was held in Chongqing. Beijing's club, with only 7 players registered on its roster, won the championship of that NBL edition. The team managed a third-place finish in the same competition when the tournament was held in Hangzhou in 1961.^{[citation needed]}

In 1988, the club was first sponsored by the Shougang Corporation, and was renamed Beijing Shougang. When the duck was confirmed as the team's mascot in 1995, the club participated in the inaugural season of the Chinese Basketball Association as the Beijing Shougang Ducks Basketball Team. In October 1997, the Shougang Corporation moved to once again rebrand the club as the Beijing Shougang Basketball Team, in an ultimately fruitless attempt to give the corporate name greater popular precedence than the mascot.^{[citation needed]}

The club had a formidable frontcourt duo in the early days of CBA competition with Mengke Bateer, who debuted for Beijing at the age of 18, and Shan Tao, who was considered to be one of the top Chinese centers at that time. The two helped the Ducks to a third-place finish in the team's CBA debut season.^{[citation needed]}

During the 2004–05 CBA season, the Ducks finished in second place in the North Division, but lost in the Quarter-Finals of the CBA Playoffs to the South Division's Bayi Rockets. In 2008, the team visited the United States, training at Marquette University and the Milwaukee School of Engineering in Wisconsin, as well as visiting Philadelphia, Madison, Wisconsin, and Eugene, Oregon.^[2]

Beijing started the 2011–12 season with a 13-game winning streak, and eventually finished second in the regular season. The club then advanced to its first CBA Finals match-up, thanks largely to the play of former NBA All-Star Stephon Marbury. They won their first CBA title by defeating the Guangdong Southern Tigers 4 games to 1. The Ducks are the first-ever CBA team to earn the title without any previous trips to the CBA Finals, as well as the league's fourth different club to win a championship.

After being eliminated in the Semi-Finals of the 2013 CBA Playoffs, Beijing returned to the Finals at the end of the 2013–14 campaign and won their second trophy. The Ducks then repeated as champions in 2014–15, making it three titles in four years.

Trophies

Chinese Basketball Association

Champions (3): 2011–12, 2013–14, 2014–15

Roster

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

Beijing Ducks roster

Players

Coaches

Pos.	No.	Name	Ht.	Wt.	Age
C/SF	0	Richard Solomon	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)	106 kg (234 lb)	32 – (1992-06-18)18 June 1992
SG	1	Chen Ying-chun	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	86 kg (190 lb)	31 – (1993-06-09)9 June 1993
G	5	Eugene German	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	84 kg (185 lb)	27 – (1997-12-02)2 December 1997
G	6	Jiang Wen	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)	85 kg (187 lb)	28 – (1996-01-22)22 January 1996
SF	7	Fanbo Zeng	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)	96 kg (212 lb)	21 – (2003-01-11)11 January 2003
G	8	Fang Shuo	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)	88 kg (194 lb)	34 – (1990-09-07)7 September 1990
G/F	9	Lei Meng	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	99 kg (218 lb)	29 – (1995-08-04)4 August 1995
SG	10	Zhi Chuang	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)	75 kg (165 lb)	21 – (2003-09-20)20 September 2003
G	11	Sun Yahui	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)	78 kg (172 lb)	20 – (2004-01-07)7 January 2004
F	12	Fan Yiming	2.04 m (6 ft 8 in)	95 kg (209 lb)	23 – (2001-10-20)20 October 2001
PF	13	Zhu Yanxi	2.07 m (6 ft 9 in)	114 kg (251 lb)	34 – (1990-05-25)25 May 1990
G/F	16	Zhang Cairen	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)	97 kg (214 lb)	29 – (1995-01-01)1 January 1995
PF/C	17	Fan Ziming	2.11 m (6 ft 11 in)	118 kg (260 lb)	26 – (1998-04-29)29 April 1998
C	19	Taruike Jianiyou	2.08 m (6 ft 10 in)	111 kg (245 lb)	26 – (1998-03-17)17 March 1998
SF	20	Zhai Xiaochuan (C)	2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)	105 kg (231 lb)	31 – (1993-03-24)24 March 1993
SF	21	Nuni Omot	2.06 m (6 ft 9 in)	98 kg (216 lb)	30 – (1994-10-03)3 October 1994
SF	23	Wen Song	2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)	110 kg (243 lb)	23 – (2001-02-07)7 February 2001
SG	25	Tian Yuxiang	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)	85 kg (187 lb)	32 – (1992-08-17)17 August 1992
C	27	Zhou Qi	2.16 m (7 ft 1 in)	113 kg (249 lb)	28 – (1996-01-16)16 January 1996
F	28	Zhang Penghui	2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	90 kg (198 lb)	19 – (2005-03-17)17 March 2005
F	33	Ji Shoujia	2.01 m (6 ft 7 in)	99 kg (218 lb)	21 – (2003-03-13)13 March 2003
F	81	Jin Yipeng	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	100 kg (220 lb)	21 – (2003-11-24)24 November 2003

Head coach

Xu Limin

Legend

(C) Team captain
Injured

Roster

Updated: 1 December 2024

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.