The East Asian Games included competitions in the sport of basketball at all six of the Games held between 1993 and 2013. The Chinese Taipei national basketball team won the gold medal at three of the Games.

Men's tournaments

Year	Host	Final Standing
		Winner	Runner-up	Third Place
1993	Shanghai  China	China	South Korea	North Korea
1997	Busan  South Korea	Chinese Taipei	South Korea	China
2001	Osaka  Japan	China	Chinese Taipei	Japan
2005	Macau  Macau	Chinese Taipei	South Korea	China
2009	Hong Kong  Hong Kong	South Korea	Chinese Taipei	Japan
2013	Tianjin  China	Chinese Taipei	China	South Korea

Women's tournaments

Year	Host	Final Standing
		Winner	Runner-up	Third Place
1993	Shanghai  China	China	South Korea	Japan
1997	Busan  South Korea	South Korea	Japan	China
2001	Osaka  Japan	China	South Korea	Japan
2005	Macau  Macau	China	Chinese Taipei	South Korea
2009	Hong Kong  Hong Kong	China	Chinese Taipei	Japan
2013	Tianjin  China	China	Japan	Chinese Taipei

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	7	1	2	10
2	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	3	4	0	7
3	South Korea (KOR)	2	5	2	9
4	Japan (JPN)	0	2	5	7
5	North Korea (PRK)	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		12	12	10	34