The Beijing Olympians joined the new American Basketball Association for the 2005–06 season and played in the Spencer Haywood Division of the Red Conference.

In 2006–07, the team moved to the Felix Events Center at Azusa Pacific University, former home of the SoCal Legends, who switched their affiliation to the Continental Basketball Association, and relocated to Thousand Oaks.

In 2008–09, the team moved back to California, this time to Don Bosco Technical Institute in Rosemead.

Meanwhile, the original Beijing Aoshen team was formed in 1997 as the Beijing Aosheng (simplified Chinese: 北京奥胜; traditional Chinese: 北京奧勝; pinyin: běi jīng ào shèng), and in 1998 won the "B" league championship to win promotion to the CBA.

[citation needed] On May 17, 2004, the Beijing Olympians were suspended from the CBA for a year for refusing to release Sun Yue to the national under-20 team.

While under suspension from the CBA, Aoshen played a seven-game tour in Taiwan against each team of the SBL, sweeping all seven games.

Since the WCPBL was a spring basketball league, they continued playing in the winter based ABA.