| | Top level | Event type
Basketball, Men – Play-off Match
| Date | 18 July 1952 | |
|---|---|---|
| Location | Tennispalatsi, Helsinki | |
| Referee | Abdel Moneim Wahibi |  EGY |
| Referee | Pietro Reverberi |  ITA |
| Attendance | 621 |
| Pos | Number | Competitors | NOC | Points | 1st-Half Points | 2nd-Half Points | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | – | Hungary |  HUN | 47 | 31 | 16 | |||
| 9 | Tibor Zsiros | 13 | – | – | |||||
| 6 | László Bánhegyi | 9 | – | – | |||||
| 5 | Tibor Mezőfi | 7 | – | – | |||||
| 8 | János Greminger | 6 | – | – | |||||
| 4 | György Bokor | 3 | – | – | |||||
| 11 | János Simon | 3 | – | – | |||||
| 7 | Péter Papp | 3 | – | – | |||||
| 10 | Pál Bogár | 2 | – | – | |||||
| 3 | György Telegdy | 1 | – | – | |||||
| 12 | Tibor Cselkó | 0 | – | – | |||||
| Coach | János Páder | ||||||||
| 2 | – | Greece |  GRE | 44 | 23 | 21 | |||
| 5 | Faidon Matthaiou | 11 | – | – | |||||
| 4 | Aristidis Roumpanis | 9 | – | – | |||||
| 14 | Konstantinos Papadimas | 7 | – | – | |||||
| 8 | Panagiotis Manias | 6 | – | – | |||||
| 13 | Jean Spanoudakis | 4 | – | – | |||||
| 6 | Ioannis Lamprou | 3 | – | – | |||||
| 7 | Stelios Arvanitis | 2 | – | – | |||||
| 12 | Themis Cholevas | 2 | – | – | |||||
| 11 | Alexandros Spanoudakis | 0 | – | – | |||||
| 9 | Mimis Stefanidis | 0 | – | – | |||||
| 3 | Dimitrios Taliadoros | 0 | – | – | |||||
| 10 | Nikos Milas | 0 | – | – | |||||
| Coach | Missas Pantazopoulos |