In a little more than a year's time, the Ryukyu Golden Kings have had three distinct identities:
• An expansion team that had promising young players and a difficult first season.
• An amazing storybook success story in the 2008-009 campaign, winning 41 of 52 regular-season games and the franchise's first bj-league title.
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