The 2009 FIBA Asia Championship for Men was the biennial Asian continental championship and also served as the FIBA Asia qualifying tournament for the 2010 FIBA World Championship. The tournament was held from August 6 to 16, 2009 in Tianjin, China.

Iran won its second straight FIBA Asia Championship by defeating China 70–52 in the final, although China's premier NBA superstar Yao Ming did not play due to an injury in the 2008-09 NBA season, which caused him to not play in that year's FIBA Asia Championship for China. Jordan defeated Lebanon 80–66 in the bronze medal game to claim the third and final automatic bid for the 2010 FIBA World Championship. Both Iran and Jordan qualified for the FIBA World Championship for the first time while China qualified for the eighth time in the last nine World Championship tournaments, this time without center Yao Ming. Lebanon failed to qualify automatically for a third consecutive world championship, although FIBA later awarded them a wild card to the tournament.

Iranian center Hamed Haddadi was named Most Valuable Player for the second consecutive tournament after leading Iran to its second consecutive title by averaging 15.8 points, 13.1 rebounds, and 4 blocks per game during the tournament.

Qualification

According to the FIBA Asia rules, each zone had two places, and the hosts (China) and Stanković Cup champion (Jordan) were automatically qualified. The other four places are allocated to the zones according to performance in the 2008 FIBA Asia Stanković Cup.

East Asia (1+2) Gulf (2+2) Middle Asia (2+2) Southeast Asia (2) West Asia (1+2) *

* , which finished fourth behind Korea, Japan and China in the East Asian qualifiers, was given a wild card entry into the championship following the withdrawal of Gulf representatives Bahrain.

Qualifying was done via the 2008 FIBA Asia Stanković Cup where the champion automatically qualified, and from different FIBA Asia sub-zones. As hosts, China automatically qualified to the championship. In West and Middle Asia, no actual qualifying tournament was done as only a few teams on those sub-zones registered to participate in a qualifying tournament.

With the withdrawal of Bahrain, FIBA Asia chose Chinese Taipei as the final participant to the 16-team field.

This is the first championship where Hong Kong would not participate; they were consistent participant since the inaugural tournament in Manila. Only Hong Kong and Syria did not return from the FIBA Asia Championship 2007. They were replaced by Uzbekistan, returning to the tournament after a four-year absence, and Sri Lanka, making its first appearance since 1995.

This is also the third time in the 21st century in which the championships were held in the People's Republic of China; Shanghai was the host for 2001, and Harbin was the host in 2003.

Draw The draw was held on June 17 at Tianjin.SBP's Eala hoping for good draw in FIBA-Asia, GMANews.TV

Group AGroup BGroup CGroup D

Squads

Each team has a roster of twelve players. Only one naturalized player per team is allowed by FIBA.

Preliminary round

Group A

TeamPldWLPFPAPDPts 3 3 0 286 184 +102 6 3 2 1 249 169 +80 5 3 1 2 291 218 +73 4 3 0 3 130 385 −255 3

Group B

TeamPldWLPFPAPDPts 3 3 0 247 174 +73 6 3 2 1 242 200 +42 5 3 1 2 166 231 −65 4 3 0 3 203 253 −50 3

Group C

TeamPldWLPFPAPDPts 3 3 0 287 166 +121 6 3 2 1 233 224 +9 5 3 1 2 192 223 −31 4 3 0 3 191 290 −99 3

Group D

TeamPldWLPFPAPDPts 3 3 0 268 181 +87 6 3 2 1 298 158 +140 5 3 1 2 173 250 −77 4 3 0 3 146 296 −150 3

Second round The results and the points of the matches between the same teams that were already played during the preliminary round shall be taken into account for the second round.

Group E

TeamPldWLPFPAPDPts 5 5 0 436 328 +108 10 5 4 1 380 340 +40 9 5 3 2 374 367 +7 8 5 2 3 379 350 +29 7 5 1 4 371 424 −53 6 5 0 5 277 408 −131 5

Group F

TeamPldWLPFPAPDPts 5 5 0 408 327 +81 10 5 4 1 418 363 +55 9 5 3 2 421 312 +109 8 5 2 3 352 346 +6 7 5 1 4 338 410 −72 6 5 0 5 265 444 −179 5

Classification 13th–16th

Semifinals

15th place

13th place

Classification 9th–12th

Semifinals

11th place

9th place

Final round

Quarterfinals

Semifinals 5th–8th

Semifinals

7th place

5th place

3rd place

Final

Final standings Qualified for the 2010 FIBA World ChampionshipWild card for the 2010 FIBA World Championship RankTeamRecord 9–0 8–1 7–24 5–45 5–46 4–57 6–38 4–59 4–410 3–511 2–612 1–713 2–314 1–415 1–416 0–5

Awards

Statistical leaders

Points Pos. Name PPG 1 Rasheim Wright 20.7 2 Aleksandr Kozlov 19.4 3 Yi Jianlian 18.3 4 Samad Nikkhah Bahrami 18.0 5 Saad Abdulrahman 17.8 6 Jackson Vroman 17.1 7 Alexandr Tyutyunik 16.8 8 Wang Zhizhi 16.7 9 Vishesh Bhriguvanshi 15.8 10 Hamed Haddadi 15.8

Rebounds Pos. Name RPG 1 Hamed Haddadi 13.1 2 Yi Jianlian 10.4 3 Anton Ponomarev 9.6 4 Zaid Abbas 8.8 5 Jackson Vroman 8.4 6 Kosuke Takeuchi 8.2 7 Wang Zhizhi 7.9 8 Jagdeep Singh 7.8 9 Oshin Sahakian 7.7 10 Joji Takeuchi 7.2

Assists Pos. Name APG 1 Samad Nikkhah Bahrami 4.8 2 Sam Daghlas 4.1 3 Kei Igarashi 3.6 4 Sambhaji Kadam 3.25 Mehdi Kamrani 3.0 Lee Jung-suk 3.0 7 Shayee Mohanna 2.9 8 Liu Wei 2.89 Fadi El Khatib 2.7 Lee Hsueh-lin 2.7 Yang Dong-geun 2.7 Yi Jianlian 2.7

Steals Pos. Name SPG 1 Mehdi Kamrani 2.9 2 Talwinderjit Singh 2.4 3 Lee Hsueh-lin 2.3 4 Saad Abdulrahman 2.2 5 Rasheim Wright 2.16 Hamed Afagh 2.0 Yang Hee-jong 2.0 8 Younis Khamis 1.99 Kelly Purwanto 1.8 Vishesh Bhriguvanshi 1.8

Blocks Pos. Name BPG 1 Hamed Haddadi 4.0 2 Yi Jianlian 2.4 3 Dmitriy Gavrilov 1.5 4 Joji Takeuchi 1.2 5 Kim Joo-sung 1.1 6 Mustafa El-Sayad 1.0 Tseng Wen-ting 1.0 8 Ha Seung-jin 1.0 9 Isman Thoyib 1.0 10 Oh Se-keun 0.9

References

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