# Basketball at the 2006 Asian Games

Basketball at the 2006 Asian Games was the second early start among the sports in the games. It was played from 23 November to 15 December 2006. In this competition, 20 teams participated in the men's competition and 6 teams played in the women's tournament. The events were held at the Basketball Indoor Hall.
The Philippines national basketball team, winners of four gold medals in previous Games, did not participate in the basketball competition due to their suspension by the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). The political interference and conflict between the Basketball Association of the Philippines (BAP) and Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) was the cause of the suspension.

## Schedule

| Q | Qualification | P | Preliminary round | C | Classification | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 23rd Thu | 24th Fri | 25th Sat | 26th Sun | 27th Mon | 28th Tue | 29th Wed | 30th Thu | 1st Fri | 2nd Sat | 3rd Sun | 4th Mon | 5th Tue | 6th Wed | 7th Thu | 8th Fri | 9th Sat | 10th Sun | 11th Mon | 12th Tue | 13th Wed | 14th Thu | 15th Fri |
| Men | Q | Q | | Q | | | | P | | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | | ¼ | ½ | C | F |
| Women | | | | | | | | | | | | P | P | P | P | P | P | | ½ | | | F | |

## Medalists

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Men details | China Hu Xuefeng Liu Wei Zhang Jingsong Wang Shipeng Zhu Fangyu Sun Yue Li Nan Yi Jianlian Mo Ke Tang Zhengdong Wang Zhizhi Li Ke | Qatar Khalid Masoud Malek Saleem Saad Abdulrahman Daoud Musa Khalid Suliman Ali Turki Yasseen Ismail Erfan Ali Saeed Mohammed Saleem Mohammed Salaheldin Hashim Zaidan Omer Abdelqader | Iran Pouya Tajik Amir Amini Saman Veisi Mehdi Kamrani Samad Nikkhah Bahrami Iman Zandi Hamed Afagh Alireza Honardoust Aidin Nikkhah Bahrami Karam Ahmadian Mousa Nabipour Hamed Haddadi |
| Women details | China Song Xiaoyun Bian Lan Jia Guang Zhang Wei Miao Lijie Ren Lei Sui Feifei Ji Xiao Chen Xiaoli Liu Dan Zhang Xiaoni Chen Nan | Chinese Taipei Chen Yi-feng Chien Wei-chuan Chiang Feng-chun Sun Chieh-ping Lan Jui-yu Chu Yung-hsu Wen Chi Cheng Hui-yun Lin Hui-mei Lin Chi-wen Li Wan-ting Liu Chun-yi | Japan Emi Isoyama Hiromi Suwa Yuki Morimoto Yuka Watanabe Noriko Sakakibara Akino Nakagawa Ryoko Utsumi Eriko Hata Asami Yoshida Yuko Oga Kumiko Yamada |

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | China (CHN) | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 2 | Chinese Taipei (TPE) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2 | Qatar (QAT) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 4 | Iran (IRI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 4 | Japan (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (5 entries) | Totals (5 entries) | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |

## Draw

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2005 FIBA Asia Championship and 2005 FIBA Asia Championship for Women.

### Men

Twelve lower-ranked teams had to play in Round 1; 12 other teams qualify directly for the tournament proper.
* Chinese Taipei despite finishing 9th was unseeded in original draw but later replaced Kazakhstan in preliminary round.

### Women

* Withdrew.

## Final standing
### Men

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L |
| | China | 8 | 8 | 0 |
| | Qatar | 8 | 6 | 2 |
| | Iran | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| 4 | Jordan | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| 5 | South Korea | 8 | 5 | 3 |
| 6 | Japan | 8 | 4 | 4 |
| 7 | Kazakhstan | 10 | 6 | 4 |
| 8 | Chinese Taipei | 8 | 3 | 5 |
| 9 | Lebanon | 7 | 3 | 4 |
| 10 | Syria | 9 | 4 | 5 |
| 11 | Uzbekistan | 9 | 3 | 6 |
| 12 | Bahrain | 9 | 2 | 7 |
| 13 | Afghanistan | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Macau | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Mongolia | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | United Arab Emirates | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | Hong Kong | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 17 | India | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 17 | Kuwait | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 17 | Palestine | 2 | 0 | 2 |

### Women

| Rank | Team | Pld | W | L |
| | China | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| | Chinese Taipei | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| | Japan | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| 4 | South Korea | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 5 | Thailand | 3 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | Lebanon | 3 | 0 | 3 |