Hi-Tech Basketball Club is a professional

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team based in

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, founded in 1994, currently play in the Basketball Thai League (BTL).

Trophies and honours

Domestic

* King's Cup ** Champions (6): 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013 * Thailand Open ** Champions (4): 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 *

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** Champions (4):

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2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

, 2020, 2021 * Basketball Thai League ** Champions (2): 2023, 2024

International

* ASEAN Basketball League ** Champions (2):

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

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** 8th Place (1):

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

Roster

ASEAN Basketball League

Hi-Tech joined the Asean Basketball League as the Chang Thailand Slammers in

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

. Won second ASEAN Basketball League championships in

as the Hi-Tech Bangkok City. It plays its games at the

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Notable players

Local players

* Piyapong Piroon * Attaporn Lertmalaiporn * Kannawat Lertlaokul * Sukdave Gougar * Montien Wongsawangtum * Wattana Suttisin * Bandit Lakhan * Nakorn Jaisanuk * Wutipong Dasom * Chanon Aaron Seangsuwan

Foreign players

* Chris Kuete * Jason Dixon *

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* Abby Santos * Boyet Bautista * Ricky Ricafuente * Chester Tolomia * Devon Sullivan * Calvin Williams * Justin Howard * Michael Earl * Darrius Brannon * Patrick Cabahug * Steven Thomas * Rex Leynes * Alex Angeles * JP Alcaraz * DeAndre Thomas * Chris Garnett * Kenneth Walker * Chaz Twan Briggs *

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* Jonathan Fernandez * Chris Charles * Luis "Tonino" Gonzaga * Jeric Canada

Coaches

* Raha Mortel / Tongkiat Singhasene (2010–11) * Manit Niyomyindee / Felton Sealey (2012) *

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(2013) * Raha Mortel / Jing Ruiz (2014–present)

Miscellaneous

In 2011, former team captain Piyapong Piroon donated his team jacket, a number of his jerseys as well as official balls from the ABL in a charity bid to aid victims of the

2011 Thailand floods Severe flooding occurred during the 2011 monsoon season in Thailand. The flooding began at the end of July triggered by the landfall of Tropical Storm Nock-ten. These floods soon spread through the provinces of northern, northeastern, and cen ...

. Team owner Nipondh Chawalitmontien offered to double that amount.Chang Thailand Slammers Captain Raises Money for Bangkok
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References

External links

Hitech Basketball Club on Facebook

Chang Thailand Slammers official website

ASEAN Basketball League official website
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