The Zhejiang Golden Bulls are a Chinese professional basketball team based in Yiwu , Zhejiang , China. It competes in the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA), in the Southern Division. Its corporate sponsor is Zhejiang Chouzhou Commercial Bank.
4-586: The team continued to be informally referred to as the Horses for quite some time, even after changing its nickname to Cyclones in 2001, largely because of the corporate sponsor during that era, Wanma (万马), whose name literally translates into English as ten thousand horses . The club plays most of its home games at the Yiwu Gymnasium but occasionally hosts contests at other locations in Zhejiang Province. During
8-488: A player must have either: This is a list of the team's leading current Chinese and International players as well as notable former Chinese and International players. Yiwu Gymnasium Yiwu Gymnasium is an indoor sporting arena located in Yiwu , Jinhua , Zhejiang , China . The capacity of the arena is 6,000 spectators and opened in 2005. It hosts indoor sporting events such as basketball and volleyball . It hosts
12-598: The 2020–21 Chinese Basketball Association season , under head coach Liu Weiwei the Golden Bulls reached the semifinals for the first time in history. Two years later, in 2022–23, the Golden Bulls reached the CBA Finals for the first time and lost to the Liaoning Flying Leopards . The Golden Bulls competed in the 2023 FIBA Intercontinental Cup Singapore as the representative team from Asia, as they were selected by
16-543: The CBA. They finished in third place, becoming the first Chinese team to finish on the podium in the tournament. Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) FIBA Intercontinental Cup 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
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