Basketball at the 1970 Asian Games

Basketball at the 1970 Asian Games
Venue	Kittikachorn Stadium
Date	10–19 December 1970
Nations	12
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Basketball was one of the 13 sports disciplines held in the 1970 Asian Games again in Bangkok, Thailand. South Korea got their first Asian basketball title by outlasting the defending champions Israel in the championship round. The games were held from December 10 to 19, 1970.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	South Korea Choi Jong-kyu Choo Hun-geun Kim In-kun Kim Yeong-il Kwak Hyun-chae Lee In-pyo Lee Ja-young Park Han Shin Dong-pa Shin Hyun-soo Yoo Hi-hyung Yoon Pyung-no	Israel Dan Barzily Tanhum Cohen-Mintz Hillel Gilboa Ronald Green Hanan Keren Ivan Leshinsky Itamar Marzel Gabi Neumark Mike Schwarz Haim Starkman Gabi Teichner Mark Turenshine	Japan Shigeaki Abe Yoshikuni Awano Seiji Igarashi Isao Kimura Akira Kodama Satoshi Mori Fumihiko Moroyama Kazufumi Sakai Kenji Soda Atsushi Somatomo Masatomo Taniguchi Kunihiko Yokoyama

The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 1966 Asian Games

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Israel	3	3	0	288	181	+107	6	Final round
2	Japan	3	2	1	243	185	+58	5
3	Singapore	3	1	2	203	284	−81	4	Classification 7th–12th
4	South Vietnam	3	0	3	202	286	−84	3

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	India	3	2	1	218	210	+8	5[a]	Final round
2	Republic of China	3	2	1	210	190	+20	5[a]
3	Thailand	3	2	1	201	189	+12	5[a]	Classification 7th–12th
4	Malaysia	3	0	3	199	239	−40	3

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Korea	3	3	0	303	203	+100	6	Final round
2	Philippines	3	2	1	280	221	+59	5
3	Iran	3	1	2	264	271	−7	4	Classification 7th–12th
4	Hong Kong	3	0	3	174	326	−152	3

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Iran	5	5	0	476	397	+79	10
2	Thailand	5	4	1	466	430	+36	9
3	Malaysia	5	3	2	419	380	+39	8
4	Singapore	5	2	3	422	432	−10	7
5	South Vietnam	5	1	4	450	531	−81	6
6	Hong Kong	5	0	5	374	437	−63	5

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	South Korea	5	4	1	393	320	+73	9[a]
2	Israel	5	4	1	429	373	+56	9[a]
3	Japan	5	3	2	—	—	—	8
4	Republic of China	5	2	3	364	386	−22	7[b]
5	Philippines	5	2	3	381	378	+3	7[b]
6	India	5	0	5	—	—	—	5

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Rank	Team	Pld	W	L
	South Korea	8	7	1
	Israel	8	7	1
	Japan	8	5	3
4	Republic of China	8	4	4
5	Philippines	8	4	4
6	India	8	2	6
7	Iran	8	6	2
8	Thailand	8	6	2
9	Malaysia	8	3	5
10	Singapore	8	3	5
11	South Vietnam	8	1	7
12	Hong Kong	8	0	8

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