Participating Nations
For the team rosters see: Basketball at the 1936 Summer Olympics - Men's team squads.
Each country was allowed to enter one team of 14 players and they all were eligible for participation.
A total of 199(*) basketball players from 21 nations competed at the Berlin Games:
- Belgium (8 – from a squad of 14)
- Brazil (8 – from a squad of 10)
- Canada (9 – from a squad of 14)
- Chile (7 – from a squad of 11)
- Republic of China (13 – from a squad of 14)
- Czechoslovakia (12 – from a squad of 12)
- Egypt (7 – from a squad of 10)
- Estonia (8 – from a squad of 11)
- France (11 – from a squad of 14)
- Germany (10 – from a squad of 14)
- Italy (13 – from a squad of 14)
- Japan (8 – from a squad of 11)
- Latvia (7 – from a squad of 11)
- Mexico (11 – from a squad of 11)
- Peru (9 – from a squad of 13)
- Philippines (9 – from a squad of 12)
- Poland (10 – from a squad of 14)
- Switzerland (8 – from a squad of 13)
- Turkey (8 – from a squad of 10)
- United States (14)
- Uruguay (9 – from a squad of 13)
Not all reserve players are known.
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