Jiangsu Monkey King

Jiangsu Monkey King
League	CBA
Founded	2007
History	Jiangsu Tongxi Monkey Kings (2007-present)
Arena	Changzhou Olympic Sports Center, 6,000 capacity
Location	Changzhou, Jiangsu, China
Team colors	Gold, white, red
Head coach	Hu Weidong

The Jiangsu Tongxi Monkey Kings (江苏同曦大圣) or Jiangsu Tongxi or Tongxi Monkey Kings are a professional basketball team based in Changzhou, Jiangsu, which plays in the South Division of the Chinese Basketball Association. The club joined the league ahead of the 2014-15 CBA season after spending its first seven campaigns at the lower levels of the country's basketball hierarchy.

Since the Jiangsu Dragons were already playing in the CBA when the Monkey Kings joined, most Chinese sports websites simply refer to the new team as the Tongxi Monkey Kings to avoid confusion, a practice which been adopted previously to distinguish the Zhejiang Golden Bulls and Zhejiang Guangsha Lions from each other.^[1] When these websites show the CBA standings with the club names in short form, Tongxi becomes the "geographical" designation, thus avoiding the problem of having more than one Jiangsu listed.^[2]

As for the team's nickname, the phrase "Da Sheng" (大圣) is technically "Big Monkey(s)" in Chinese, but the club chooses to render it in English as Monkey Kings. There is no connection, at least as of the 2015–16 CBA season, to the literary character named the Monkey King.

Notable players

• Von Wafer (2015–2016)
• Jerome Jordan (2015–2016)
• Hassan Whiteside (2014)
• Brandon Costner (2014-2015)
• Will McDonald (2014-2015)
• Mehdi Kamrani (2014-2015)
• Liam McMorrow (2015)
• DeJuan Blair (2016–)
• Jared Cunningham (2016–)

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