2007 FIBA Asia Championship
Pos Name SPG
1 Sambhaji Kadam 2.3
2 Kei Igarashi 1.8
3 Rashed Al-Rabah 1.7
4 Saad Abdulrahman 1.6
5 Saqer Abdulredha 1.6
5 Michael Madanly 1.6
7 Mehdi Kamrani 1.5
7 Yang Dong-geun 1.5
9 Poon Chi Ho 1.4
10 Hamed Afagh 1.4
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The 2007 FIBA Asia Championship for Men was the qualifying tournament for FIBA Asia at the men's basketball tournament at the 2008 Summer Olympics at Beijing. The tournament was held in Tokushima, Japan from July 28 to August 5, 2007. Participating teams qualified through the previous edition of this tournament and others through regional qualifiers. Since China is assured of an automatic berth at the 2008 Olympics as the host nation, the champions will automatically qualify while the two best teams excluding China qualifies for the 2008 FIBA World Olympic Qualifying Tournament for Men. This resulted in China deploying another team in this tournament, while their primary team led by NBA star Yao Ming and rookie Yi Jianlian participated in the Stankovic Cup and tournaments and friendlies with countries across Europe to prepare themselves. Iran won their first championship after beating 2-time silver medalists Lebanon, 74-69. Korea upended Kazakhstan to clinch third place, and the last Asian berth in the FIBA pre-Olympic tournament, together with Lebanon.