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HONG KONG—Hong Kong-based professional basketball team the Bay Area Dragons, which will be named the “Chun Yu Bay Area Dragons” in a Hong Kong competition for their affiliation with the Hong Kong Basketball Association Chun Yu Basketball Club, have signed five new players from mainland China and Hong Kong SAR for the 2023-24 season.

Eight players from the team’s inaugural 2022-23 season are returning.

The new signings are: power forward Ramon Cao, who joins from Florida College in the US; guard Seva Chan, who last played with Australian NBL1 West team Cockburn Cougars; guard Adili Kuerban, previously with Fujian Sturgeons in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA); shooting guard Oliver Xu, who joins from Hong Kong Eastern in the territory’s A1 Division; and Wang Yunzhang, who last played with Beijing University of Chemical Technology in the Chinese University Basketball Association League.

The returning players are: guard Hayden Blankley; small forward Ju Mingxin; center Liu Chuanxing; guard/forward Kobey Lam; center Duncan Reid; guard Glen Yang; power forward Zheng Qilong; and power forward Zhu Songwei.

The Dragons will add several more names to their playing roster before the start of the season.

The Dragons will once again be led by Head Coach Brian Goorjian, the six-time Australian National Basketball League champion who also led the Australian national team to the Olympic bronze medal at Tokyo 2020. He will be supported by a coaching team again including Assistant Coach William Tomlinson (three-time Australian NBL champion, China Women’s National Team Assistant Coach) and strength and conditioning coach Francesco Berre.