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The Beijing BG / Beikong Fly Dragons (北京北控翱龙) or Beijing Entertainment Group Basketball Franchise or Beikong Fly Dragons are a professional basketball team which is based in Beijing, China, and plays in the North Division of the Chinese Basketball Association. Beijing BG (known in Chinese as Beijing Beikong) is the club's corporate sponsor while its mascot is a fly dragon. ==History== The team was founded in 2009 in Chongqing and spent its first five seasons of existence competing at the lower levels of China's hardwood hierarchy. The club entered the CBA in the 2014–15 season as an expansion team and finished at the bottom of the league standings with a record of 4-34. In September 2015, the club relocated and was initially renamed Beijing BG〔(重庆翱龙正式变更为北京控股男篮 )〕 but to avoid confusion with the city's soccer team from the second-tier China League One, which is also called Beijing BG, or Beijing Beikong, as well as to avoid confusion with the Beijing Ducks when only the geographical names of CBA clubs are used—a large number of Chinese sports websites refer to the team as the ''Beikong Fly Dragons'' (the club's jerseys and official logo have always used the badly-translated English term "Fly Dragons" instead of "Flying Dragons" or "Soaring Dragons").〔(CBA Teams Webpage at Hupu )〕 This practice is consistent with the way a lot of Chinese sports websites shorten the second Zhejiang team's name to ''Guangsha Lions'' and the second Jiangsu team's name to ''Tongxi Monkey Kings''. So this means Beikong replaces Beijing as the club's "geographical" designation on such lists.〔(CBA English Webpage at Sohu )〕 It remains to be seen whether the team will keep the "Fly Dragons" moniker over the long haul or switch to another nickname, since the CBA also has the Jiangsu Dragons and the Shanxi Brave Dragons monikers in place. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Beikong Fly Dragons」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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