# Hong Kong Eastern

The Eastern Sports Club (Chinese: 東方籃球隊), also known as Hong Kong Eastern (Chinese: 香港東方), is a professional men's basketball team of the Eastern Sports Club. The team also known as (Chinese: 東方男籃; lit. 'Eastern Men's Basketball').
Eastern competes in the Hong Kong A1 Division, and the ASEAN Basketball League since 2016. It has won the Hong Kong A1 championship three times, in 1956, 2017 and 2023.

## History

In 2015, the team won Hong Kong A2 Division Championship [zh] and promoted to 2016 Hong Kong A1 Division Championship. The team became fully professional in 2016. In the same year, the club would adopt the name Hong Kong Eastern and join the ASEAN Basketball League (ABL).
They won the 2016–17 ABL season, and finished as semifinalists for the next two seasons. They also became Hong Kong A1 Division champions in 2018. The ABL's 2019–20 season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is scheduled to resume in 2023 with Eastern as among its participating teams. Eastern also plans to join the Chinese Basketball Association in the future.
Hong Kong Eastern won its second A1 Division championship in 2024.
In 2024, Eastern joined the Philippine Basketball Association as a guest team for the 2024–25 Commissioner's Cup. They also simultaneously played games at the Hong Kong A1 Division Championship and the East Asia Super League.

## Home arenas

* Southern Stadium (2016–present)

## Season by season

| Champions | Season champions | Runners-up | Playoff berth |
| Season | League | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Regular season | Playoffs | Head coach |
| Season | League | Finish | Played | Wins | Losses | Win% | Playoffs | Head coach |
| 2016–17 | ABL | 1st | 20 | 16 | 4 | .800 | Won Semifinals (Heat) 2–0 Won ABL Finals (Slingers) 3–1 | Edu Torres |
| 2017 | HKA1 | 2nd | 7 | 6 | 1 | .857 | Lost Semifinals (Winling) 1–2 | Edu Torres |
| 2017–18 | ABL | 2nd | 20 | 14 | 6 | .700 | Lost Semifinals (Alab Pilipinas) 0–2 | Edu Torres |
| 2018 | HKA1 | 3rd | 7 | 5 | 2 | .714 | Won Semifinals (Winling) 2–1 Won HKA1 Finals (South China) 3–2 | Edu Torres |
| 2018–19 | ABL | 7th | 26 | 13 | 13 | .500 | Won Quarterfinals (Alab Pilipinas) 2–0 Lost Semifinals (Slingers) 0–2 | Edu Torres |
| 2019 | HKA1 | 4th | 9 | 6 | 3 | .667 | Won Quarterfinals (Fukien) 1–0 Lost Semifinals (South China) 0–2 | Edu Torres |
| 2019–20 | ABL | 9th | 10 | 3 | 7 | .300 | Season cancelled* | Jordan Brady |
| 2021–22 | HKA1 | 4th | 9 | 6 | 3 | .667 | Won Quarterfinals (Pegasus) 1–0 Won Semifinals (Tycoon) 2–0 Lost HKA1 Finals (South China) 0–3 | Željko Pavličević |
| 2023 | ABL | 2nd | 14 | 10 | 4 | .714 | Won Semifinals (NS Matrix) 2–0 Won ABL Finals (Heat) 2–1 | Željko Pavličević |
| 2023–24 | HKA1 | 2nd | 9 | 10 | 0 | 1.000 | Won HKA1 Finals (Tycoon) 3–1 | Mensur Bajramović |
| 2024–25 | EASL | 3rd in Group A | 5 | 3 | 3 | .500 | Did not qualify | Mensur Bajramović |
| 2024–25 | PBA (Commissioner's) | 7th | 12 | 7 | 5 | .583 | Lost Quarterfinals (TNT) 0–1 | Mensur Bajramović |
*Note: Season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.

## Current roster

2024-25 East Asia Super League Roster
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2024–25 PBA Commissioner's Cup Roster

## Past roster
### 2021–22 ASEAN Basketball League roster

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## Notable players

    To appear in this section a player must have either:
* Set a club record or won an individual award as a professional player.
* Played at least one official international match for his senior national team or one NBA game at any time.

### Local players

* Lam Man Chun (2018–22)
* Siu Kin Fan (2018–20)
* Daniel Onwugbonu (2018–19)
* Chan Yik Lun (2018–22)
* Ng Chung Tsun (2018-22, 2024)
* Ip Chun Fung (2019–22)
* Adam Xu (2017–)
* Chu Tsz Yung (2023-)
* Chen Wan Tin (2021)
* So Sheung Ying (2017–20)
* Muhammad Sulaiman Sheikh (2019-)
* Wong Ho Yin (2023-2024)
* Cheung Yin Lung (2023-)
* Pok Yuet Yeung (2019-)
* So Chi Lok (2017–20)
* Ip Chun Kit (2016–18)
* Lee Shu Wing (2017–18)
* Lau Tsz Lai (2015–20)
* Chung Chun Sing (2016–19)
* Wu Cheuk Pan (2016–)
* Ricky Yang (2015–22)
* Leung Ka Hin (2019-)
* Leung Shiu Wah (2024-)
* Yip Yiu Pong (2024)
* Chan Ka Ho (2024)
* Cheung Pan Yin (2019–20)
* Tang Chi Hang (2015–21)
* Ma Kong San (2019, 2021)
* Chan Siu Wing (2015–)
* Lee Ki (2015–22)
* Oliver Xu (2022–2024)
* Ramon Cao (2024-)
* Zhu Hao (2024-)
* Ngan Wing Fai (2016–18)
* Poon Chi Ho (2015–17)
* Fong Shing Yee (2015–17)
* Cheng Kam Hing (2015–17)
* Wong Lut Yiu (2013–14, 2015–16)
* Lau Hoi To (2015–16)
* Heung Chun Keung (2015–16)
* Wu Kwok Fung (1992–94, 2014–15)

### Imports

* Brandis Raley-Ross (2020, 2021–22)
* Brandon Costner (2019–20)
* Joseph Eriobu (2019–20)
* Joshua De Villa (2021–)
* Glen Yang (2024-)
* Kobey Lam (2024-)
* Hayden Blankley (2024-)
* Austin Veloso (2020–2024)
* Trey Kell (2019)
* T. J. Price (2019)
* Dominic Gilbert (2022–)
* Chris McLaughlin (2022–)
* Michael Holyfield (2019, 2019–20)
* O'Darien Bassett (2019, 2022–23)
* Tonny Trocha-Morelos (2022–23)
* Isaiah Eisendorf (2024)
* Cameron Clark (2024-)
* Samuel Deguara (2018–19)
* Eric Ferguson (2018)
* Trey Gilder (2018)
* Christian Standhardinger (2017–18)
* Josh Boone (2017)
* Jasonn Hannibal (2017–19)
* Tyler Lamb (2016–18)
* Steven Guinchard (2016–17, 2019–20, 2024-)
* Patrick Sullivan (2016–17)
* Marcus Elliott (2016–19)
* Ryan O'Neal Moss (2016–18)
* Chris Barnes (2015–17)
* Reggie Johnson (2014–15)
* Bryant Austin (2014–15)