The Eastern Sports Club basketball team (Chinese: 東方籃球隊), is a professional men's basketball team of the Eastern Sports Club.[1] The team also known as Chinese: 東方男籃; lit. 'Eastern Men's Basketball' and Hong Kong Eastern for sponsorship reason.
Eastern competes in the Hong Kong A1 Division,[2][3] and the ASEAN Basketball League since 2016.[4] It has won the Hong Kong A1 championship three times, in 1956, 2017 and 2023.
Eastern basketball team is a section of Eastern Sports Club (officially known as Eastern Athletic Association Football Team Limited). In 2015 season the team won Hong Kong A2 Division Championship and promoted to 2016 Hong Kong A1 Division Championship.[2] The team became fully professional in 2016.[2][3] In the same year, the club would adopt the name Hong Kong Eastern and join the ASEAN Basketball League (ABL).[5]
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.[5]
Hong Kong Eastern won its second A1 Division championship in 2024.[6]
In 2024, Eastern is also looking to play in the Philippine Basketball Association as a guest team in the 2014 Commissioner's Cup. It also plans to join the East Asia Super League.[7]
*Note: Season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.[8]
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Wu Kwok Fung (1992–94, 2014–15) Brandis Raley-Ross (2019–20, 2021–22) Brandon Costner (2019–20)
Joseph Eriobu (2019–20) Joshua De Villa (2021–) 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)
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) 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)