For the beer, see Taiwan Beer

Taiwan Beer

Taiwan Beer is brewed by the Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Corporation . The brand, an icon of Taiwanese culture, began as a monopoly product but has remained the best-selling beer on the island in the era of free trade.-History:The company today known as TTL had its origins in a government agency...

The Taiwan Beer Basketball Team is a semi-professional basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

 team in the Super Basketball League

Super Basketball League

The Super Basketball League , often abbreviated to the SBL, is the pre-eminent men's semi-professional basketball league in Taiwan. It was founded in 2003 and considered by many as the successor organization to the short-lived Chinese Basketball Alliance , a men's professional basketball league...

 (SBL) in Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

 sponsored by the Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Corporation (TTL). Before the privatization

Privatization

Privatization is the incidence or process of transferring ownership of a business, enterprise, agency or public service from the public sector to the private sector or to private non-profit organizations...

 of the sponsoring corporation in 1999, the team was named "Taiwan Tobacco and Wine Monopoly Bureau Golden Dragons" (公賣金龍) and was among the most successful franchises in Taiwan's amateur Division A conference (甲組聯賽). Since the inauguration of the SBL in 2003, the team has turned into a semi-professional club and won back-to-back championships between 2006 and 2008 bearing the new name of "Taiwan Beer".

2010-11 Roster

Notable players

Chou Jun-San (周俊三) 2 seasons: '06-'08 Hsu Hao-Cheng (许浩程) 5 seasons: '04-'08, '10 Lin Chih-Chieh Lin Chih-chieh Lin Chih-Chieh is a Taiwanese professional basketball player of Amis descent. During his career with the Taiwan Beer club of the Super Basketball League , Lin has won one most valuable player award and two scoring champion titles, while leading his team to back-to-back championships in 2007 and...  (林志傑) 7 seasons: '03-'10 Lin Kuan-Lun (林冠伦) 2 seasons: '04-'06

Lo Hsin-Liang (羅興樑) 1 season: '07-'08 Shang Wei-Fang (尚韋帆) 4 seasons: '05-'08, '10 Wu Tai-Hao Wu Tai-Hao Wu Tai-Hao is a Taiwanese basketball player.Wu plays centre for the Chinese Taipei men's national basketball team, as well as for his Taiwanese club teams, but had adjusted to play forward while competing in the Pacific West Conference, a Division II league of the NCAA, as a member of the Brigham...  (吳岱豪) 4 seasons: '07 - present Yang Ching-Min (楊敬敏) 4 seasons: '07 - present

SBL regular season records

• 2003-2004 season: 6th place
• 2004-2005 season: 6th place
• 2005-2006 season: 2nd place
• 2006-2007 season: 1st place
• 2007-2008 season: 1st place
• 2008-2009 season:
• 2009-2010 season: 3rd place