The Taipei Fubon Braves () are a professional basketball team that is owned by Fubon Sports & Entertainment, LLC., one of the subsidiaries under Fubon Financial Holding Co., Ltd. and currently plays in the Taiwanese P. League+. From 2014 to 2019, they played in the semi-pro Super Basketball League (SBL). They have also been part of the professional ASEAN Basketball League (ABL) since the 2019âÂÂ20 ABL season. In the summer of 2020, when P. League+ was founded, they joined the league as one of the four founding teams and secured a three-peat from the 2020-21 season to the 2022-23 season.
1982: Established Chien-Hong Men's Basketball Team.
1983: Won the B Division Championship of the Taiwan Provincial Chairman Cup.
1983 December: Registered as an A Division team by the Chinese Taipei Basketball Association.
1987: Owned subsequently by Tera Electronics and won the teamâÂÂs first Championship in A Division.
1994: The Chinese Basketball Alliance (CBA) was founded, the team was re-branded as Tera Mars (æ³°çÂÂæ°ç¥Â) to start their first season in the CBA .
1996 and 1997: Retained team ownership but dropped "Tera" from the name and renamed simply to "Mars" to compete in the third season of the CBA.
1997: Sold to Guoyang Group in, attempted to re-brand as "Kaohsiung Mars" in late February.
mid-1998: Faced naming disputes and financial challenges, settling on "Mars" again
2000: Sponsored by Broadcasting Corporation of China, thus renamed as " BCC Mars".
2003: Joined semi-pro league Super Basketball League (SBL).
2004: Taken over by Videoland Television Network in June. Thus, re-branded as "Videoland Hunters".
2007: Sold to Taiwan Mobile, a major mobile communication provider in Taiwan, and named as "Taiwan Mobile Leopards".
2011: Rebranded as "Taiwan Mobile Basketball Team"
2014: Ownership shipped to Fubon Financial Holding Venture Capital Co., Ltd, and renamed as âÂÂFubon BravesâÂÂ.
2019: Left SBL to join the ASEAN Basketball League (ABL), a professional league, and started the professional basketball era of Fubon Braves. ÃÂ
2019: Signed a partnership contract with Taipei City Government, became "Taipei Fubon Bravesâ and started hosting games at Taipei Heping Basketball Gymnasium as their home court in Taipei City.
2020-present: Joined P. League+, the first ever professional basketball league in Taiwan in the past 20 years as one of the four co-founding teams. Achieved significant success by completing a three-peat (21-23).
The Braves' training facility is located at the National Taiwan University of Arts Gymnasium, which is opened on 9 December 2020.
The Braves previously practiced at the Banqiao Civil Sports Center and Shulin Civil Sports Center.