Yunnan Honghe Bulls or Yunnan Honghe or Yunnan Bulls were a basketball

Basketball

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 team in the South Division of the Chinese Basketball Association

Chinese Basketball Association

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, based in Mengzi

Mengzi, Yunnan

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, Yunnan

Yunnan

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 .

They won the 2004 Chinese Basketball League (CBL

CBL

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) championship and were promoted to the CBA for the 2004–2005 season, replacing the disqualified Beijing Olympians

Beijing Olympians

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.

In the 2004–2005 season, the Yunnan Bulls finished in fourth place in the South Division and upset the North Division's Liaoning Hunters

Liaoning Hunters

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 in the quarter-finals, but lost in the semi-finals to the Jiangsu Dragons

Jiangsu Dragons

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. In 2005–2006 they again finished in fourth place in the South Division, but were eliminated by the North Division's Beijing Ducks

Beijing Ducks

Beijing Jinyu Ducks or Beijing Ducks or Beijing Jinyu is a basketball team in the North Division of the Chinese Basketball Association, based in Beijing. They were formerly known as the Beijing Shougang Ducks or Beijing Shougang; the name change was likely due to a change of corporate sponsorship...

in the quarter-finals.

External links

• Official website
• Sports Sina Profile (in Chinese)