The Nanjing Monkey Kings () are a
Chinese professional
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appro ...
team based in
Nanjing
Nanjing or Nanking is the capital of Jiangsu, a province in East China. The city, which is located in the southwestern corner of the province, has 11 districts, an administrative area of , and a population of 9,423,400.
Situated in the Yang ...
,
Jiangsu
Jiangsu is a coastal Provinces of the People's Republic of China, province in East China. It is one of the leading provinces in finance, education, technology, and tourism, with its capital in Nanjing. Jiangsu is the List of Chinese administra ...
, which plays in the Southern Division of the
Chinese Basketball Association
The Chinese Basketball Association (), often abbreviated as the CBA, is the first-tier men's professional basketball league in China.
The league is commonly known by fans as the CBA, and this acronym is even used in Chinese on a regular basis ...
(CBA). The club joined the league ahead of the
2014–15 CBA season as the Jiangsu Monkey Kings, after spending its first seven campaigns at the lower levels of the country's basketball hierarchy. The team was renamed the Nanjing Monkey Kings after the
2016–17 CBA season.
关于江苏同曦大圣篮球俱乐部变更球队名称的公告
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Roster
Notable former players
* Antonio Blakeney
References
External links
Nanjing Monkey Kings official website
Nanjing Monkey Kings on Weibo.com
{{CBA teams
Chinese Basketball Association teams
Sport in Nanjing
2007 establishments in China
Basketball teams established in 2007
National Basketball League (China) former teams
2007 in Nanjing