The
2001
The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...
Asian Basketball Confederation Championship for Men was held in
Shanghai
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,
China
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.
Qualification
According to the ABC rules, each zone had two places, and the hosts (China) and the best 5 teams of the previous Asian Championship were automatically qualified.
Draw
Original draw:
* Withdrew
** Suspended by FIBA, replaced by which finished third in the Southeast Asian qualifiers.
With DPR Korea and Saudi Arabia out of the championship, the ABC has called for a redraw of the 14 participants in
Kuala Lumpur
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,
Malaysia
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on July 12.
Preliminary round
Group A
Group B
Group C
Group D
Quarterfinal round
Group I
Group II
Group III
Group IV
Classification 5th–14th
13th place
11th place
9th place
7th place
5th place
Final round
Finalists qualified for the
2002 FIBA World Championship
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.
Semifinals
3rd place
Final
Final standing
Awards
*Most Valuable Player:
Yao Ming
Yao Ming ( zh, c=姚明; born September 12, 1980) is a Chinese basketball executive and former professional player. He played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and the Houston Rockets of the National Baske ...
*Best Playmaker:
Walid Doumiati
Walid Mahmoud El Doumiati (born July 16, 1968 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a retired Lebanese professional basketball player who last played for Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut. Doumiati alongside Elie Mechantaf and Fadi El Khatib helped build the sport ...
*Best Rebounder:
Yao Ming
Yao Ming ( zh, c=姚明; born September 12, 1980) is a Chinese basketball executive and former professional player. He played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and the Houston Rockets of the National Baske ...
*Best 3-Pointer:
Yang Kyun-Min
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* Yang, in yin and yang, one half of the two symbolic polarities in Chinese philosophy
* Korean yang, former unit of currency of Korea from 1892 to 1902
* YANG, a data modeling language for the NETCONF network configuration ...
*Best Coach:
Johnny Neumann
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High school and c ...
(Lebanon) and
Wang Fei
*Sportsmanship Award:
Michael Madanly
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All-Star Team:
*
Yao Ming
Yao Ming ( zh, c=姚明; born September 12, 1980) is a Chinese basketball executive and former professional player. He played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and the Houston Rockets of the National Baske ...
*
Wang Zhizhi
Wang Zhizhi ( zh, t=王治郅, s=王治郅, p=Wáng Zhìzhì, pronounced ; born 8 July 1977) is a Chinese former professional basketball player who was the head coach of the Bayi Rockets, the team with which he spent his domestic career in the ...
*
Fadi El Khatib
*
Walid Doumiati
Walid Mahmoud El Doumiati (born July 16, 1968 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a retired Lebanese professional basketball player who last played for Sporting Al Riyadi Beirut. Doumiati alongside Elie Mechantaf and Fadi El Khatib helped build the sport ...
*
Seo Jang-Hoon
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* Search engine optimization, the process of improving the visibility of a website or a web page in search engines
Organisations
* SEO Economic Research, a scientific institute
* Spanish Ornithological Society (''Soci ...
References
External links
Resultsarchive.fiba.com
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July 2001 sports events in Asia