| Tourney Name: | FIBA World Championship |
| Year: | 1982 |
| Other Titles: | FIBA Campeonato Mundial de Baloncesto de 1982 |
| Country: | Colombia |
| Dates: | 15–28 August |
| Opened: | Belisario Betancur |
| Num Teams: | 13 |
| Confederations: | 5 |
| Venues: | 5 |
| Cities: | 5 |
| Champion: | Soviet Union |
| Count: | 3 |
| Second: | United States |
| Third: | Yugoslavia |
| Fourth: | Spain |
| Games: | 50 |
| Mvp: |  Doc Rivers |
| Top Scorer: |  Rolando Frazer (24.4 points per game) |
| Prevseason: | 1978 |
| Nextseason: | 1986 |
The 1982 FIBA World Championship was the 9th FIBA World Championship, the international basketball world championship for men's national teams. The tournament was hosted by Colombia from 15 to 28 August 1982.
| width=10px bgcolor="#aaffaa" | Defending World Champions | ||
| width=10px bgcolor="#ffffcc" | Host country, advances outright to the semifinal round |
| Group A[1] | Group B | Group C | Classification round | Final round | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medellín | Bucaramanga | Cúcuta | |||
| Coliseo Cubierto El Campín | Coliseo Iván de Bedout | Coliseo Vicente Díaz Romero | Coliseo Toto Hernández | Coliseo El Pueblo | |
| Capacity: 14,000 | Capacity: 10,000 | Capacity: 5,000 | Capacity: 6,000 | Capacity: 18,000 | |
| width=33% | Group A | width=33% | Group B | width=33% | Group C |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=center colspan=3 | – advanced automatically to the semifinal round as host |
| Rank | width=200px | Team ! | Record |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 8–1 | ||
| 2 | 7–2 | ||
| 3 | 7–2 | ||
| 4 | 6–3 | ||
| 5 | 4–4 | ||
| 6 | 3–5 | ||
| 7 | 0–6 | ||
| 8 | 4–3 | ||
| 9 | 4–3 | ||
| 10 | 4–3 | ||
| 11 | 2–5 | ||
| 12 | 1–6 | ||
| 13 | 0–7 |
See main article: FIBA Basketball World Cup All-Tournament Team.