Basketball was one of the 21 sports disciplines held in the 1982 Asian Games in New Delhi, India. South Korea defeated China in the championship rematch and won their 2nd Asian Games title. The games were held from 20 November – 3 December 1982.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men details	South Korea An Jun-ho Cho Myung-soo Lee Chung-hee Lee Jang-soo Lee Min-hyun Lee Young-keun Lim Jung-myung Park In-kyu Park Jong-chun Park Soo-kyo Shin Dong-chan Shin Sun-woo	China Feng Wei Han Pengshan Huang Yunlong Ji Zhaoguang Kuang Lubin Li Qiuping Li Yaguang Liu Jianli Lü Jinqing Sun Fengwu Wang Libin Xu Yuansheng	Japan Toshiharu Baba Yasuaki Ikeuchi Nobuki Kato Norihiko Kitahara Katsushige Kumagai Masaaki Mikami Yasuyuki Nakajima Yasutaka Okayama Shuji Ono Hiroyuki Otsuka Takayuki Seto Kanji Takaki
Women details	China Chen Yuefang Liu Min Liu Qing Qiu Chen Song Xiaobo Sun Ruiyun Xian Liqing Xiu Lijuan You Shumin Zhang Hui Zhang Liuru Zhang Yueqin	South Korea Bang Shin-sil Cha Yang-sook Hong He-ran Hong Young-soon Kim Hwa-soon Kim Young-hee Kwon Myung-hee Park Chan-sook Park Jin-sook Park Yang-gae Sung Jung-a Woo Eun-kyung	Japan Nanae Fujii Setsuko Hashizume Shoko Ito Hiromi Kinjo Yuko Kizuka Kumi Kubota Shigeko Kumagai Mari Nehyo Kazumi Shimizu Mari Suzuki Mika Sugihara Noriko Tanaka

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	1	1	0	2
	South Korea (KOR)	1	1	0	2
3	Japan (JPN)	0	0	2	2
Totals (3 entries)		2	2	2	6

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	China	2	2	0	200	150	+50	4	Final round
2	North Korea	2	1	1	173	168	+5	3
3	Iraq	2	0	2	127	182	−55	2	Classification 9th–13th

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	South Korea	2	2	0	209	146	+63	4	Final round
2	Kuwait	2	1	1	187	186	+1	3
3	Bahrain	2	0	2	153	217	−64	2	Classification 9th–13th

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Japan	2	2	0	198	99	+99	4	Final round
2	Malaysia	2	1	1	168	110	+58	3
3	South Yemen	2	0	2	83	240	−157	2	Classification 9th–13th

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Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	Philippines	3	3	0	400	221	+179	6	Final round
2	India	3	2	1	345	201	+144	5
3	United Arab Emirates	3	1	2	261	251	+10	4	Classification 9th–13th
4	North Yemen	3	0	3	118	451	−333	3

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Team	Pld	W	L
Iraq	4	4	0
Bahrain	4	3	1
United Arab Emirates	4	2	2
South Yemen	4	1	3
North Yemen	4	0	4

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Team	Pld	W	L
South Korea	7	7	0
China	7	6	1
Japan	7	5	2
Philippines	7	3	4
North Korea	7	3	4
Kuwait	7	2	5
Malaysia	5	2	5
India	7	0	7

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Rank	Team
	South Korea
	China
	Japan
4	Philippines
5	North Korea
6	Kuwait
7	Malaysia
8	India
9	Iraq
10	Bahrain
11	United Arab Emirates
12	South Yemen
13	North Yemen

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	China	4	4	0	402	212	+190	8
2	South Korea	4	3	1	380	269	+111	7
3	Japan	4	2	2	290	310	−20	6
4	India	4	1	3	303	338	−35	5
5	North Korea	4	0	4	203	449	−246	4

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• Men's Results
• Women's Results