Ko te FIBA (International Basketball Federation) i hangaia i te tau 1932 e waru nga whenua taketake: Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Kariki, Itari, Latvia, Portugal, Romania me Switzerland. I tenei wa, ko te whakahaere anake i tirotiro i nga kaitakaro amateur. Ko tana ingoa poto, i ahu mai i te French Fédération Internationale de Basket-ball Amateur, ko "FIBA". I whakauruhia te poitūkohu tane ki te Berlin 1936 Summer Olympics, ahakoa i whakahaerehia he whakataetae whakaaturanga i te 1904. Ko te United States i hinga i Canada i te whakamutunga tuatahi, i purei i waho. Ko tenei whakataetae i whakahaeretia e te United States, ko tana kapa i wikitoria i nga taitara e toru anake. Ko te tuatahi o enei i puta mai i te keemu whakamutunga i Munich i te 1972 ki te Soviet Union, i mutu ai te keemu e toru nga wa i puta mai i runga i te tihi.
Argentina, Czechoslovakia, Kariki, Itari, Latvia, Potukara, Romania me Switzerland