The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships of goal orientations, perceived motivation and perceived ability to motivation and team satisfaction. The participants were 293 basketball players (age=19.09 ± 3.60 years) taking part in the High-School Basketball League and the Amateur Basketball League. The results of t-test procedure showed that the male players' scores in ego-involving climate, ego orientation, perceived ability, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, and team satisfaction were significantly higher than the female players'. The results of simple correlation analyses showed that intrinsic motivation and team satisfaction were positively related to the task-involving climate, task orientation and perceived ability. Extrinsic motivation was positively related to the task-involving climate, ego-involving climate, task orientation, ego orientation, and perceived ability. A-motivation was positively related to the ego-involving climate, but negatively related to the perceived ability. The results of stepwise analyses showed that: (1) Task orientation, task-involving climate and perceived ability were the three effective predictors of the intrinsic motivation. (2) Ego-orientation and perceived ability were the two significant predictors of the extrinsic motivation. (3) The perceived ability, ego-involving climate, and ego orientation predicted a-motivation significantly. (4) Task-involving climate, perceived ability and task orientation were the three major predictors of team satisfaction. In addition. players with high task-orientation and perception of task-involving climate had higher motivation and team satisfaction. The findings of this study indicate that, to nourish motivation and team satisfaction, coaches should create an appropriate task-involving climate and avoid over-emphasizing an ego-involving climate.