The Tianjin Ronggang Pioneers ( simplified Chinese : 天津荣钢先行者 ; traditional Chinese : 天津榮鋼先行者 ; pinyin : Tiānjīn Rónggāng Xiānxíngzhě ) or Tianjin Ronggang or Tianjin Pioneers are a Chinese professional basketball team based in Tianjin , which plays in the Northern Division of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA). The Ronggang Import & Export Trade Company, Ltd., is the club's corporate sponsor while its mascot is a gold lion .
4-471: Tianjin's team joined the league ahead of the 2008–09 CBA season as an expansion club, and is still seeking its first championship as of the 2015–16 CBA season . Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA -sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed. Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA -sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed. To appear in this section
8-618: A player must have either: This article about a basketball team in China is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 2008%E2%80%9309 CBA season The 2008–09 CBA season was the 14th CBA season. Guangdong Southern Tigers defended their CBA title after defeating Xinjiang Flying Tigers in the Finals, four games to one. Tianjin Ronggang were promoted to the CBA after
12-400: The bottom two teams of the last season could each have one extra Asian foreign players. Teams in bold advanced to the next round. The numbers to the left of each team indicate the team's seeding in regular season, and the numbers to the right indicate the number of games the team won in that round. Home court advantage belongs to the team with the better regular season record; teams enjoying
16-447: The team owners voted in favor of them over two other candidates, Qingdao DoubleStar and Guangdong Fenglü . Qingdao later replaced Beijing Aoshen for their place in the CBA, when the latter failed to submit relevant files on time and lost their qualification for the season. Foreign players of each team could play unlimited time each game, except only 5 quarters collectively when facing Bayi Rockets . The two newly promoted teams and
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