| Finals |  | Game | date | team 1 | score | team 2 | HT |  | Final | 28.07 |   United States | 95-74 |   Yugoslavia | 50-38 |  | Bronze | 28.07 |   Soviet Union | 100-72 |   Canada | 49-38 |  | 5-6 | 27.07 |   Italy | 98-75 |   Czechoslovakia | 46-46 |  | 7-8 | 27.07 |   Cuba | 92-81 |   Australia | 42-38 |  | 9-10 | 27.07 |   Puerto Rico | 89-84 |   Mexico | 39-32 |  | 1/2 | 26.07 |   Yugoslavia | 89-84 |   Soviet Union | 42-42 |  | 1/2 | 26.07 |   United States | 96-77 |   Canada | 48-35 |  | 5-8 | 25.07 |   Italy | 79-72 |   Australia | 37-43 |  | 5-8 | 25.07 |   Czechoslovakia | 91-79 |   Cuba | 45-38 |  | 9-11 | 25.07 |   Puerto Rico | 111-91 |   Japan | 59-44 |   
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| Final ranking | w | l | pf | pa |  | 1.United States | 6 | 0 | 585: | 500 |  | 2.Yugoslavia | 4 | 2 | 527: | 522 |  | 3.Soviet Union | 6 | 1 | 726: | 541 |  | 4.Canada | 4 | 3 | 595: | 612 |  |   |  | 5.Italy | 4 | 2 | 524: | 491 |  | 6.Czechoslovakia | 3 | 4 | 584: | 583 |  | 7.Cuba | 4 | 3 | 619: | 574 |  | 8.Australia | 2 | 5 | 625: | 652 |  |   |  | 9.Puerto Rico | 2 | 4 | 521: | 538 |  | 10.Mexico | 1 | 5 | 545: | 600 |  | 11.Japan | 0 | 6 | 461: | 660 |  | 12.Egypt | 0 | 1 | 64: | 103 |   
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|  Groups Round. First 2 to 1/2 Finals. Rest to Classification Matches. |   
| Group A | w | l | gf | ga |  | 1.Soviet Union | 5 | 0 | 542: | 380 |  | 2.Canada | 4 | 1 | 446: | 416 |  | 3.Cuba | 3 | 2 | 448: | 402 |  | 4.Australia | 2 | 3 | 472: | 481 |  | 5.Mexico | 1 | 4 | 461: | 511 |  | 6.Japan | 0 | 5 | 370: | 549 |   
| Team | So | Ca | Cu | Au | Me | Ja |  | Soviet Union | ----- | 108:85 | 98:72 | 93:77 | 120:77 | 123:69 |  | Canada |   | ----- | 84:79 | 81:69 | 92:84 | 104:76 |  | Cuba |   |   | ----- | 111:89 | 89:75 | 97:56 |  | Australia |   |   |   | ----- | 120:117 | 117:79 |  | Mexico |   |   |   |   | ------ | 108:90 |  | Japan |   |   |   |   |   | ------ |   
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| date | team 1 | score | team 2 | HT |  | 18.07 |   Soviet Union | 120-77 |   Mexico | 61-40 |  | 18.07 |   Canada | 104-76 |   Japan | 52-38 |  | 18.07 |   Cuba | 111-89 |   Australia | 56-40 |  | 19.07 |   Soviet Union | 93-77 |   Australia | 58-39 |  | 19.07 |   Canada | 84-79 |   Cuba | 44-37 |  | 19.07 |   Mexico | 108-90 |   Japan | 57-41 |  | 21.07 |   Soviet Union | 108-85 |   Canada | 51-31 |  | 21.07 |   Cuba | 97-56 |   Japan | 44-20 |  | 21.07 |   Australia | 120-117 |   Mexico | 57-58 |  | 23.07 |   Soviet Union | 123-69 |   Japan | 61-37 |  | 23.07 |   Canada | 81-69 |   Australia | 40-42 |  | 23.07 |   Cuba | 89-75 |   Mexico | 47-39 |  | 24.07 |   Soviet Union | 98-72 |   Cuba | 52-33 |  | 24.07 |   Canada | 92-84 |   Mexico | 45-43 |  | 24.07 |   Australia | 117-79 |   Japan | 54-51 |   
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| Group B | w | l | gf | ga |  | 1.United States | 4 | 0 | 394: | 349 |  | 2.Yugoslavia | 3 | 1 | 364: | 343 |  | 3.Italy | 2 | 2 | 347: | 344 |  | 4.Czechoslovakia | 2 | 3 | 418: | 406 |  | 5.Puerto Rico | 0 | 4 | 321: | 363 |  | 6.Egypt | 0 | 1 | 64: | 103 |   
| Team | Un | Yu | It | Cz | Pu | Eg |  | United States | ----- | 112:93 | 106:86 | 81:76 | 95:94 | wo |  | Yugoslavia |   | ----- | 88:87 | 99:81 | 84:63 | wo |  | Italy |   |   | ----- | 79:69 | 95:81 | wo |  | Czechoslovakia |   |   |   | ----- | 89:83 | 103:64 |  | Puerto Rico |   |   |   |   | ----- | wo |  | Egypt |   |   |   |   |   | ----- |   
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| date | team 1 | score | team 2 | HT |  | 18.07 |   United States | 106-86 |   Italy | 50-39 |  | 18.07 |   Yugoslavia | 84-63 |   Puerto Rico | 38-29 |  | 18.07 |   Czechoslovakia | 103-64 |   Egypt | 55-32 |  | 20.07 |   United States | 95-94 |   Puerto Rico | 51-51 |  | 20.07 |   Yugoslavia | 99-81 |   Czechoslovakia | 51-43 |  | 21.07 |   United States | 112-93 |   Yugoslavia | 51-55 |  | 21.07 |   Italy | 79-69 |   Czechoslovakia | 40-34 |  | 22.07 |   Yugoslavia | 88-87 |   Italy | 41-57 |  | 22.07 |   Czechoslovakia | 89-83 |   Puerto Rico | 50-42 |  | 24.07 |   United States | 81-76 |   Czechoslovakia | 46-36 |  | 24.07 |   Italy | 95-81 |   Puerto Rico | 55-35 |   
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 Egypt retired after 1 played game supporting the African Boycott against New Zealand`s sports relations with South Africa.
 
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| 1. United States |  | 
 |  | Phil Ford  |  | Steve Sheppard  |  | Adrian Dantley  |  | Walter Davis  |  | Quinn Buckner  |  | Ernie Grunfeld  |  | Kenneth Carr  |  | Scott May  |  | Tate Armstrong  |  | Tom LaGarde  |  | Philip Hubbard  |  | Mitch Kupchak 	  |   
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| 2. Yugoslavia |  | 
 |  | Blagoje Georgievski  |  | Dragan Kićanović  |  | Vinko Jelovac  |  | Rajko Žižić  |  | Željko Jerkov  |  | Andro Knego  |  | Zoran Slavnić  |  | Krešimir Ćosić  |  | Damir Šolman  |  | Žarko Varajić  |  | Dražen Dalipagić  |  | Mirza Delibašić 	  |   
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| 3. Soviet Union |  | 
 |  | Vladimir Arzamaskov  |  | Aleksandr Salnikov  |  | Valeri Miloserdov  |  | Alzhan Zharmukhamedov  |  | Andrei Makeiev  |  | Ivan Edeshko  |  | Sergei Belov  |  | Vladimir Tkatshenko  |  | Anatoli Myshkin  |  | Michail Korkiya  |  | Aleksandr Belov  |  | Vladimir Zjigini 	  |   
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| 4. Canada |  | 
 |  | Alex Devlin  |  | Martin Riley  |  | Bill Robinson  |  | John Cassidy  |  | Derek Sankey  |  | Bob Sharpe  |  | Cameron Hall  |  | Jamie Russell  |  | Robert Town  |  | Romel Raffin  |  | Lars Hansen  |  | Phil Tollestrup  |   
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| 5. Italy |  | 
 |  | Giuseppe Brumatti  |  | Giulio Iellini  |  | Carlo Recalcati  |  | Luciano Vendemini  |  | Fabrizio Della Fiori  |  | Renzo Bariviera  |  | Marino Zanatta  |  | Dino Meneghin  |  | Pierluigi Marzorati  |  | Luigi Serafini  |  | Ivan Bisson  |  | Gianni Bertolotti 	  |   
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| 6. Czechoslovakia |  | 
 |  | Vladimír Ptáček  |  | Vojtěch Petr  |  | Jiří Konopásek  |  | Justin Sedlák  |  | Stanislav Kropilák  |  | Jaroslav Kantůrek  |  | Zdeněk Kos  |  | Jiří Pospíšil  |  | Vladimír Padrta  |  | Kamil Brabenec  |  | Zdeněk Douša  |  | Gustav Hraška 	  |   
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| 7. Cuba |  | 
 |  | Juan Carlos Domecq Fortuondo  |  | Ruperto Herrera Tabio  |  | Juan Roca Brunet  |  | Pedro Chappé García  |  | Alejandro Ortíz  |  | Rafael Cañizares Poey  |  | Daniel Scott Brice  |  | Ángel Padrón Martín  |  | Tomás Herrera Martínez  |  | Oscar Varona Varona  |  | Alejandro Urgelles Guibot  |  | Felix Morales 	  |   
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| 8. Australia |  | 
 |  | Andrew Campbell  |  | Ian Watson  |  | Robert Cadee  |  | Anthony Barnett  |  | Eddie Palubinskas  |  | Andris Blicavs  |  | Michael Tucker  |  | Perry Crosswhite  |  | Russell Simon  |  | Peter Walsh  |  | John Maddock  |  | Ray Tomlinson  |   
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| 9. Puerto Rico |  | 
 |  | Alfred Lee  |  | Michael Vicens  |  | Neftali Rivera  |  | Luis Brignoni  |  | Ruben Rodríquez  |  | Roberto Alvarez  |  | Héctor Blondet  |  | Jimmy Thordsen  |  | Mariano Ortíz  |  | Teofilo Cruz  |  | Raymond Dalmau  |  | Earl Brown 	  |   
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| 10.Mexico |  | 
 |  | Jesús García  |  | Arturo Guerrero  |  | Jorge Flores  |  | Rafael Palomar  |  | Antonio Ayala  |  | Samuel Campis  |  | Héctor Rodríguez  |  | Anastacio Reyes  |  | Gabriel Nava  |  | Ruben Alcala  |  | Manuel Saenz  |  | Manuel Raga 	  |   
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| 11.Japan |  | 
 |  | Shigeaki Abe  |  | Nobuo Chigusa  |  | Satoshi Mori  |  | Shoji Yuki  |  | Yutaka Fujimoto  |  | Hirofumi Numata  |  | Kiyohide Kuwata  |  | Koji Yamamoto  |  | Shigeto Shimizu  |  | Fumio Saito  |  | Norihiko Kitahara  |  | Hideki Hamaguchi 	  |   
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| 12.Egypt |  | 
 |  | Sayed Aboul Dahab  |  | Mohamed Essam Khaled  |  | Mohamed Khaled el-Said  |  | Fathi Kamel  |  | Hamdi el-Seoudi  |  | Mohamed Hanafi el-Gohari  |  | Ahmed Abdelhamid el-Saharti  |  | Ismail Mohamed Aly Selim  |  | Medhat Warda  |  | Osman Farid  |  | Mohamed Hamdi Osman  |  | Awad Abdelnabi |   
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