The 2007 FIBA Asia Championship for Men was the qualifying tournament for FIBA Asia at the men's basketball tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics at Beijing. The tournament was held in Tokushima, Japan from July 28 to August 5, 2007.

Participating teams qualified through the previous edition of this tournament and others through regional qualifiers. Since China was assured of an automatic berth at the 2008 Olympics as the host nation, the champions will automatically qualify while the two best teams excluding China qualifies for the 2008 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men. This resulted in China deploying another team in this tournament, while their primary team led by NBA star Yao Ming and rookie Yi Jianlian participated in the Stankovic Cup and tournaments and friendlies with countries across Europe to prepare themselves.

Iran won their first championship after beating 2-time silver medalists Lebanon, 74–69. Korea upended Kazakhstan to clinch third place, and the last Asian berth in the FIBA pre-Olympic tournament, together with Lebanon.

Qualification

According to the FIBA Asia rules, each zone had two places, and the hosts (Japan) and holders (China) were automatically qualified. The other four places are allocated to the zones according to performance in the 2005 FIBA Asia Championship.

East Asia (2+2+1) Gulf (2+1) Middle Asia (2) Southeast Asia (2) West Asia (2+2)

Draw The draw was held on June 6 at Tokushima. The teams were grouped first into four pots, each member of the pot is guaranteed not to face each other in the preliminary round; the top four finishers of 2005 FIBA Asia Championship are seeded in order of their finish and hence are on one pot. Japan as the host has the right to choose which group it will be under.

Group AGroup BGroup CGroup D *

* Saudi Arabia withdrew from the tournament, replaced them.

Squads

Preliminary round

Group A TeamPldWLPFPAPDPts330212191+216321216201+155312224233−94303207234−273

Group B TeamPldWLPFPAPDPts330287181+1066321277200+775312199283−844303175274−993

Group C TeamPldWLPFPAPDPts330268163+1056321273203+705312195269−744303164265−1013

Group D TeamPldWLPFPAPDPts330281216+656321258232+265312252305−534303245283−383

Quarterfinal round

Group E TeamPldWLPFPAPDPts330267192+756321231233−25312242259−174303202258−563

Group F TeamPldWLPFPAPDPtsTiebreaker321241240+151–0321236223+1350–1312239254−1541–0312215214+140–1

Group G TeamPldWLPFPAPDPts330300227+736321314230+845312199266−674303191281−903

Group H TeamPldWLPFPAPDPts330295171+1246321211261−505312234238−44303200270−703

Classification 9th–16th 15th place

13th place

11th place

9th place

Classification 5th–8th

Semifinals

7th place

5th place

Final round

Semifinals

3rd place

Final

Final standings Qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics Qualified for the Olympic Qualifying Tournament

RankTeamRecord 7–1 6–2 6–24 4–45 5–36 3–57 5–38 4–49 5–210 3–411 3–412 2–513 3–414 1–615 2–516 1–6

Awards

Statistical leaders

Points Pos. Name PPG1 Michael Madanly 33.12 Fadi El Khatib 27.33 Chen Hsin-an 18.1 Rasheim Wright 18.15 Anton Ponomarev 17.66 Joe Vogel 17.47 Ha Seung-jin 17.38 Nour Al-Samman 16.69 Jimmy Alapag 16.010 Kim Joo-sung 15.5

Rebounds Pos. Name RPG1 Wissam Yakoub 10.62 Hamed Haddadi 9.63 Ha Seung-jin 9.14 Joe Vogel 8.95 Michael Madanly 8.16 Fong Shing Yee 7.67 Radwan Hasaballah 7.48 Asi Taulava 7.19 Anton Ponomarev 7.1 J. R. Sakuragi 7.1

Assists Pos. Name APG1 Sambhaji Kadam 4.02 Poon Chi Ho 3.13 Sam Daghlas 3.14 Kim Seung-hyun 2.9 Yang Dong-geun 2.96 Jimmy Alapag 2.87 Mehdi Kamrani 2.68 Sharif Al-Sharif 2.69 J. R. Sakuragi 2.410 Daoud Musa 2.3 Michael Madanly 2.3

Steals Pos. Name SPG1 Sambhaji Kadam 2.32 Kei Igarashi 1.83 Rashed Al-Rabah 1.74 Saad Abdulrahman 1.65 Saqer Abdulredha 1.6 Michael Madanly 1.67 Mehdi Kamrani 1.5 Yang Dong-geun 1.59 Poon Chi Ho 1.410 Hamed Afagh 1.4

Blocks Pos. Name BPG1 Hamed Haddadi 1.42 Ha Seung-jin 1.0 Joe Vogel 1.04 Wu Tai-hao 0.95 Sulaiman Al-Tabakh 0.76 Yasseen Ismail 0.6 Omer Abdelqader 0.68 Wu Qian 0.69 Kim Joo-sung 0.5 Oshin Sahakian 0.5

References 2007 FIBA Asia Championship official website

External links FIBA Asia official website