Professional basketball team in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
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The club was founded in 1954 as the company team of
Daiwa Securities, a
Tokyo-based securities brokerage. In 1991, it joined the
Japan Basketball League. In 2000, the company club was dissolved after NSG purchased it, and the club was moved before the 2000–2001 season to Niigata and renamed Albirex.
In 2004, it joined the
bj league along with five other clubs.