Westports Malaysia Dragons

Westports Malaysia Dragons
Leagues ASEAN Basketball League
Founded 2009
History KL Dragons (2009–2010)
Westports KL Dragons (2010–2011)
Westports Malaysia Dragons (2012-Present)
Arena MABA Stadium
(capacity: 2500)
Location Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
President Datuk Wira Dani Daim
Head coach Ariel Vanguardia
Championships
Website www.KLDragons.com
Uniforms
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The Westports Malaysia Dragons is a professional basketball team based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia that is seeing action in the newly formed international basketball league in Southeast Asia, the Asean Basketball League. The Dragons play their home games in the MABA Stadium located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

In their first year of existence, they were known as the KL Dragons before becoming the Westports KL Dragons after a sponsorship deal with Wesports. Before the 2012 season, the team became the Westports Malaysia Dragons.

Malaysia has made the ABL semifinals in all of its first two seasons in the league but lost both times to the AirAsia Philippine Patriots.

In 2011, the Dragons was the ABL representative in the 2011 FIBA Asia Champions Cup held in the Philippines after the champion Chang Thailand Slammers failed to make it because of a suspension by FIBA. KL failed to win a single game in the tourney.

Contents

Honours

Title Winners Runners-up 3rd Place 4th Place
ABL Regular Season 2009–10
ABL Grand Finals 2009–10 (Semi-Finals)

Achievements

ASEAN Basketball League

Year ABL Regular Season Position ABL Grand Finals Position
2009–10 4th Place Semi-Finals

Team Officials

Team's Owners:

Team's President:

Key dates

Draft picks

Round Pick Player Height Position Nationality College
0 0 NA NA NA  Malaysia

Roster

The Dragons made changes to their roster for the 2012 ABL Season:

Players Coaches
Pos. # Nat. Name Ht. Wt.
PG 0 Batumalai, Guganeswaran (C) 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) 79 kg (174 lb)
F 1 Wade, Tiras (I) 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) 109 kg (240 lb)
F/C 3 Belasco, Nic (I) 1.98 m (6 ft 6 in) 109 kg (240 lb)
PG 5 Lau, Bik Ing 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) 80 kg (176 lb)
F 10 Kuek, Tian Yuan 2.02 m (6 ft 8 in) 80 kg (176 lb)
F 11 Ng, John Yeo Seng 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) 90 kg (198 lb)
F/C 17 Kwaan, Yoong Jing 2.00 m (6 ft 7 in) 87 kg (192 lb)
G/F 20 Loh, Shee Fai 1.92 m (6 ft 4 in) 87 kg (192 lb)
G 22 Pacana, Chris (I) 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) 82 kg (181 lb)
C 33 Williams, Brian (I) 2.08 m (6 ft 10 in) 125 kg (276 lb)
G/F 34 Cabahug, Patrick (I) 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) 77 kg (170 lb)
C 37 Chee, Li Wei 1.97 m (6 ft 6 in) 100 kg (220 lb)
G 99 Kuppusamy, Satyaseelan 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) 81 kg (179 lb)
Head coach
  • Ariel Vanguardia
Assistant coach(es)
  • Caesar Polhen
Legend
  • (C) Team captain
  • (DP) Development player
  • (TP) Training player
  • (I) Import player
  • Injured

Roster • updated 2011-12-23

Transactions

Out

In

References

External links

Kuala Lumpur Dragons current roster

0 Batumalai | 1 Ho | 5 Lau | 10 Lingganay (import) | 11 Ng | 12 Yeow | 13 Kwaan | 31 Leith (import) | 20 Loh | 21 Kuek | 33 Raymundo (import) | 34 Cabahug (import) | 35 Chee | 43 Miller (import) | 45 Edika |

Head Coach Goh C.H. | Assistant Coaches Soo E.H. | Vanguardia |
Current teams
Defunct teams
Regular seasons
Grand Finals Playoffs
2010 · 2011 · 2012