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FIBA Asia Cup The FIBA Asia Cup (formerly the FIBA Asia Championship and ABC Championship) is an international basketball tournament which takes place every four years between the men's national teams of Asia and Oceania. Through the 2015 edition, the tourn ...

was the 5th FIBA Asia Cup, a top-level international

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tournament of

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. The tournament was held in

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from 11–19 July 2014.

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won the tournament by defeating

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89–79 in the final and thus automatically qualified for the

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to be held in

Qualification

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titleholder (Iran) were automatically qualified. The other two places were allocated to the zones according to performance in the

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; as a result, Southeast Asia and East Asia zones were allocated an additional berth each. In the event of a withdrawal or non-participation by qualified teams, FIBA Asia has the right to invite other teams, while endeavoring to maintain, as far as possible, a certain balance between Sub-Zones. Included are teams'

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prior to the tournament. Notes: * (ranked 34th) selected as a wild card for replacement of a team from the Gulf sub-zone. * (ranked 71st) withdrew, leaving four teams in Group B. They were not replaced.

Draw

The draw was held on June 8, 2014 at

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Preliminary round

Group A

Group B

Final round

The teams in this round will be the Top 4 teams per group

Quarterfinals

Semifinals 5th–8th

Semifinals

7th place

5th place

3rd place

Final

Final standing

Awards

*Most Valuable Player:

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* PG – Zirui Wang * SG – Paul Lee * SF –

Arsalan Kazemi Arsalan Kazemi Naeini ( fa, ارسلان کاظمی نائینی; born 22 April 1990) is an Iranian professional basketball player for Chemidor Qom of the Iranian Basketball Super League. He played college basketball for the Oregon Ducks and th ...

* PF – Quincy Davis * C –

References

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