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Basketball is the regular Asian Games sport since the first edition in Delhi 1951. The Asian Games tournaments were the de facto Asian championships until the Asian Basketball Confederation Championship was founded in 1960 .
Basketball at the 2022 Asian Games was held in Hangzhou, China from 25 September to 6 October 2023. There were two contested events: 5x5 and 3x3 basketball. [1] [2] Qualification was to be held for both men's and women's tournament but was scrapped by June 2023. [3]
On 12 October 2023, the International Testing Agency announced that Jordan's Sami Bzai and the Philippines' Justin Brownlee both tested positive for substances prohibited by the World Anti-Doping Agency.
The men's basketball tournament at the 2023 SEA Games will be held at the Morodok Techo Indoor Sports Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from 9 to 16 May 2023. Competition schedule [ edit ]
Basketball was among the sports contested at the 2023 SEA Games in Cambodia. The tournaments did not follow FIBA eligibility rules ; players only had to have citizenship of the country they sought to represent their national team in the games.
The Philippines have dominated the men's events since the sport was played, winning 19 of the 22 events. [1] Malaysia won 13 of the 21 women's events.. Starting in 2019, the 3x3 version of the game was played, in addition to the usual 5-on-5 full strength teams.
The Asian Games motto is "Ever Onward" which was designed and proposed by Guru Dutt Sondhi upon the creation of the Asian Games Federation in 1949. The Asian Games symbol is a bright sun in red with 16 rays and a white circle in the middle of its disc which represents the ever glimmering and warm spirit of the Asian people.
The Asian Games-themed train in Hangzhou Metro Line 19. On 16 May 2023, the train number 19045 of Hangzhou Metro Line 19 named Asian Games (Chinese: 亚运号; pinyin: Yàyùn hào) started operation. The train displays the Hangzhou Asian Games Logo at the front of the train, and the whole train as well as seats and handrails are colored in purple.