| Event: | Basketball |
| Games: | 2018 Asian Games |
| Venue: | Gelora Bung Karno Basketball Hall Gelora Bung Karno Tennis Center Court Istora Gelora Bung Karno |
| Dates: | 14 August – 1 September 2018 |
| Competitors: | 414 |
| Nations: | 25 |
| Prev: | 2014 |
| Next: | 2022 |
Basketball at the 2018 Asian Games was held in Jakarta, Indonesia from 14 August to 1 September 2018 and contested two events: 5x5 and 3x3 basketball.[1] [2] This was the first Asian Games tournament for 3x3 basketball.[3]
| P | Preliminary round | C | Classification | ¼ | Quarterfinals | ½ | Semifinals | F | Finals |
| Event↓/Date → | 14th Tue | 15th Wed | 16th Thu | 17th Fri | 18th Sat | 19th Sun | 20th Mon | 21st Tue | 22nd Wed | 23rd Thu | 24th Fri | 25th Sat | 26th Sun | 27th Mon | 28th Tue | 29th Wed | 30th Thu | 31st Fri | 1st Sat | |||
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| P | P | P | P | P | P | P | ¼ | C | ½ | C | F | |||||||||||
| P | P | P | P | P | P | ¼ | C | ½ | C | F | ||||||||||||
| 3x3 basketball | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| P | P | P | P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||||||||||
| P | P | P | P | ¼ | ½ | F | ||||||||||||||||
| Men | Chen Gong Xiao Hailiang Huang Wenwei Zeng Bingqiang | An Young-jun Kim Nak-hyeon Park In-tae Yang Hong-seok | Ali Allahverdi Amir Hossein Azari Navid Khajehzadeh Mohammad Yousefvand | |
| Women | Li Yingyun Dilana Dilixiati Jiang Jiayin Zhang Zhiting | Ririka Okuyama Norika Konno Stephanie Mawuli Kiho Miyashita | Amphawa Thuamon Thunchanok Lumdabpang Warunee Kitraksa Rujiwan Bunsinprom |
The official draw for both the men's and women's basketball events were held on 5 July 2018 in Jakarta.[4] The teams were seeded based on their final ranking at the 2014 Asian Games.
* The Philippines[5] and Palestine[6] withdrew after the draw. On 5 August, the Philippines, through a hastily-made press conference by their national basketball federation, decided to field a team but they were placed in Group D to balance the number of teams in each group. The United Arab Emirates withdrew few days before the start of the competition.