| Event: | Basketball |
| Games: | 2002 Asian Games |
| Venue: | Geumjeong Gymnasium Sajik Arena |
| Date: | 28 September – 14 October 2002 |
| Competitors: | 213 |
| Nations: | 14 |
| Prev: | 1998 |
| Next: | 2006 |
Basketball was one of the many sports which was held at the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea between 28 September and 14 October 2002. The competition took place at Geumjeong Gymnasium and Sajik Arena.
| P | Preliminary round | S | Second round | C | Classification | ½ | Semifinals | B | Bronze medal match | G | Gold medal match |
| Event↓/Date → | 28th Sat | 29th Sun | 30th Mon | 1st Tue | 2nd Wed | 3rd Thu | 4th Fri | 5th Sat | 6th Sun | 7th Mon | 8th Tue | 9th Wed | 10th Thu | 11th Fri | 12th Sat | 13th Sun | 14th Mon | |
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| P | P | P | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | C | ½ | B | G | ||||
| P | P | P | P | P | P | P | P | ½ | B | G |
| Men | Choo Seung-gyun Shin Ki-sung Kim Seung-hyun Cho Sang-hyun Lee Kyu-sup Hyun Joo-yup Moon Kyung-eun Seo Jang-hoon Bang Sung-yoon Chun Hee-chul Lee Sang-min Kim Joo-sung | Guo Shiqiang Liu Wei Gong Xiaobin Zhang Cheng Hu Weidong Chen Ke Li Nan Liu Yudong Zhu Fangyu Yao Ming Mengke Bateer Du Feng | Roman Muravyov Fedor Zakharchenko Alexey Yeropkin Vitaliy Lopatin Alexandr Yemelyanov Mikhail Dedov Yevgeniy Issakov Sergey Vdovin Vitaliy Strebkov Yevgeniy Ovsyannikov Alexandr Derbush Boris Tikhonenko | |
| Women | Song Xiaoyun Zhang Hanlan Pan Wei Miao Bo Miao Lijie Ren Lei Sui Feifei Liu Xiaohong Chen Luyun Zhang Xiaoni Chen Xiaoli Chen Nan | Kim Yeong-ok Chun Joo-weon Kim Ji-yoon Lee Eun-ju Jang Sun-hyoung Lee Mi-sun Beon Yeon-ha Park Jung-eun Hong Hyun-hee Lee Jong-ae Jung Sun-min Kim Kwe-ryong | Chu Yung-hsu Chien Wei-chuan Chiang Feng-chun Mai Ya-hui Chao Pi-feng Huang Shiau-jie Chang Hui-yin Cheng Hui-yun Tsai Pei-ying Tang Su-tuan Chen Yi-ju Liu Chun-yi |
The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 1998 Asian Games.
* Lebanon and India withdrew, India was replaced by North Korea and Kuwait moved to Group A to balance the number of teams in each group.
* Lebanon and India withdrew, The remaining teams played in a round-robin competition.