Russian Basketball All-Star Game

Russian Basketball All-Star Game
StatusInactive
FrequencyPeriodically
Inaugurated1994-95
Most recent2010-11
Organized byRussian Basketball Federation
PBL

The Russian Basketball All-Star Game (also known as USL All-Star Game) was an annual basketball event in Russia, organised by the Basketball Super League and the PBL. It was launched in 1995 as the All-Star Game of the Basketball Super League, Russia's top-tier. The event was held annually for its first six years and consisted of an all-star game, a three-point shoot and a slam-dunk exhibition. Many notable players like Andrei Kirilenko, Gintaras Einikis, Trajan Langdon and Valeri Tikhonenko have played in the All-Star Game.

History

The first edition took place in Saint Petersburg during the 1994-95 season featuring the best players of the Basketball Super League. The following two years the event was hosted in Moscow, while the 1999 edition was held in Perm.[1] The fifth All-Star Game was held in Kazan on 23 April 2000, with Andrei Kirilenko receiving the majority of the votes (212).

On 22 December 2006, an exhibition All-Star Game took place at the Yubileyny Sports Palace, in Saint Petersburg in front of 7,000 fans, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Russian basketball. For the first time, there were mixed teams on the court, consisting of both men and women.[2] During half-time the five best Soviet players of the 20th century for men and women were announced. Ivan Edeshko, Sergey Belov, Andrei Kirilenko, Alexander Belov and Arvydas Sabonis were the men's starting five. There were no slam-dunk contests or other events.

On 26 March 2011, the short-lived PBL who had replaced the Basketball Super League as the country's top competition brought the All-Star Game back hosting it in Nizhny Novgorod.[3] The PBL All-Star Game took place in front of 3,000 spectators.[4][5][6] Despite the fact that the PBL lasted two more seasons, there was no other All-Star Game organized by the league. In 2013 the PBL was aboslished in order for the Eastern European Professional Basketball League to be formed (known now as VTB United League) including clubs from former Soviet countries. In 2017 the VTB United League All-Star Game was launched.

List of games

Bold: Team that won the game.

Super League All-Star Game

Year Date Venue City Team 1 Score Team 2 MVP Club
1995 Nova Arena Saint Petersburg East West
1996 CSKA Palace of Sports Moscow East West
1997 [7] April 5 CSKA Palace of Sports Moscow East West
1998 Not held
1999 [8] April 12 Universal Sports Palace Perm East 107-138 West Alexei Pegushin
Valeri Tikhonenko
Ural Great Perm
Dynamo Moscow
2000 [9] April 23 Kazan East West
2001 [10] April 23 Palace of Sports Rostov Russians Foreigners

100th Anniversary All-Star Game

Year Date Venue City Team 1 Score Team 2 MVP Club
2006 [11] 22 December Yubileyny Sports Palace Saint Petersburg Red Team '106-98 White Team Egor Vyaltsev Ural Great Perm

PBL All-Star Game

Year Date Venue City Team 1 Score Team 2 MVP Club
2011 [12] 26 March Trade Union Sport Palace Nizhny Novgorod Russian All-Stars '141-120 Legion All-Stars Sergei Monia Dynamo Moscow

Score sheets

  • 1st All-Star Game 1994-95:

DATE:
VENUE: Nova Arena, Saint Petersburg
SCORE: East - West

EAST: Evgeny Kisurin, Sergey Panov, Sergei Ivanov, Vasily Karasev, Evgeny Pashutin (starters)

WEST: Valery Tikhonenko, Igor Grachev, Spencer Dunkley, Zakhar Pashutin, Dirk Searls (starters)


  • 2nd All-Star Game 1995-96:

DATE:
VENUE: CSKA Palace of Sports, Moscow
SCORE: East - West

EAST: Evgeny Kisurin, Valery Daineko, Julius Nwosu, Vasily Karasev, Igor Kudelin (starters)

WEST: Valery Tikhonenko, Tony Turner, Gintaras Einikis, Evgeny Pashutin, Sergei Chikalkin (starters)


  • 3d All-Star Game 1996-97:

DATE: April 5, 1997
VENUE: CSKA Palace of Sports, Moscow
SCORE: East - West

EAST: Igor Kudelin, Sergey Panov, Vitaly Nosov, Valery Daineko, Sergei Bazarevich (starters) - Alexei Pegushin

WEST: Valery Tikhonenko, Zakhar Pashutin, Gintaras Einikis, Evgeny Pashutin, Darius Lukminas (starters)


  • 4th All-Star Game 1998-99:

DATE: April 12, 1999
VENUE: Universal Sports Palace, Perm, att: 7100
SCORE: East - West 107-138

EAST: Andrey Yurtaev (DNP), Andrey Olbrecht 6, Alexander Bashminov 9, Jeffrey Rodgers 14, Konstantin Kosmatov 2 (starters) - Alexei Pegushin 17, Andrey Sheiko 7, Mikhail Mikhailov* (Aris BC) 10, Gadashev 13, Shushakov 8, Bulantsev 9, Tsymbal 3, Bulantsev 9

WEST: Valery Daineko 22, Sergey Panov 6, Vasily Karasev 21, Zakhar Pashutin, Gintaras Einikis (starters) - Valery Tikhonenko 15, Andrei Kirilenko* 12, Sergei Chikalkin 6, Igor Kudelin 14, Evgeny Pashutin 9, Vladimir Karankevich 7, Petrenko* 8, Antipov 4, Zakhar Pashutin (DNP)


  • 5th All-Star Game 1999-00:

DATE: April 23, 2000
VENUE: Kazan
SCORE: East - West

EAST: Tomas Pacesas, Andrey Sheiko, Alexander Bashminov, Igor Kurashov, Sergei Chikalkin (starters)

WEST: Ruslan Avleev, Valentin Kubrakov, Andrei Kirilenko, Vasily Karasev, Gintaras Einikis (starters) -


  • Anniversary All-Star Game 2006-07:

DATE: December 22, 2006
VENUE: Yubileyny Sports Palace, Saint Petersburg, att: 7500
SCORE: Reds - Whites 106-98

RED TEAM: Alexey Savrasenko, Tatyana Shchegoleva (female), Anton Ponkrashov, Svetlana Abrosimova (female), Nikita Kurbanov (starters) - Irina Osipova (female), Fedor Likholitov, Marina Karpunina (female), Nikita Shabalkin, Ekaterina Demagina (female), Egor Vyaltsev , Irina Sokolovskaya (female), Sergey Bykov. Coach: Evgeny Pashutin*, ass: Evgeny Gomelsky

WHITE TEAM: Maria Stepanova (female), Nikita Morgunov, Olga Arteshina (female), Natalia Vodopyanova (female), Sergei Monya (starters) - Pyotr Samoilenko, Oksana Rakhmatulina (female), Vitaly Fridzon, Elena Danilochkina (female), Nikolai Padius, Ekaterina Lisina (female), Elena Karpova (female), Fedor Dmitriev, Coach: Igor Grudin, ass: Stanislav Eremin


  • PBL All-Star Game 2010-11:

DATE: March 26, 2011
VENUE: Trade Union Sport Palace, Nizhny Novgorod, att: 3000
SCORE: Russians - Foreigners 141-120

RUSSIANS: John Robert Holden, Anton Ponkrashov 12, Sergei Monya 16, Andrey Vorontsevich 26, Alexander Kaun 20 (starters) - Evgeny Voronov 21, Egor Vyaltsev 2, Alexey Surovtsev (DNP), Vitaly Fridzon 27, Kelly McCarthy 3, Valery Likhodey 4, Alexey Zhukanenko 10. Coach: Evgeny Pashutin

FOREIGNERS: Keith Langford 25, Trajan Langdon 2, Ramunas Siskauskas 2, Gerald Green 24, Maciej Lampe 26 (starters) - Patrick Beverley (DNP), Jamont Gordon 23, Henry Domercant (DNP), Dragan Labovic, Mike Wilkinson 4, Kresimir Loncar 7, Jeremiah Massey (DNP), Ivan Paunich 7. Coaxh: Kestutis Kemzura

  • Ivan Paunich was a replacement for the foreign injured players.

All-Star Game events

Three-Point Shoot Contest

Year Winner Team Runner-up Team
1999 Roman Dvinyaninov Ural Great Perm Yuri Leonov
2006 Not held
2011 Trajan Langdon PBC CSKA Moscow Dragan Labovic BC Enisey

Slam-Dunk champions

Year Winner Team Runner-up Team
1999 Andrei Kirilenko PBC CSKA Moscow Mikhail Vikhnevich BC Enisey
2006 Not held
2011 Gerald Green Krasnye Krylia Valery Likhodey Triumph Lyubertsy

Topscorers

Year Player Points Team
1999 Valeri Daineko 22 PBC CSKA Moscow
2006 Egor Vyaltsev 34 Ural Great Perm
2011 Vitaly Fridzon 27 PBC CSKA Moscow

All-Stars with most votes

Bold: Player with most votes overall per year.

East

Edition Player Team Votes
1995 Valery Tikhonenko CSK VVS-Samara 1249
1996 Valery Tikhonenko CSK VVS-Samara 587
1997 Gintaras Einikis Avtodor Saratov 363
1999 Aleksandr Bashminov Ural Great Perm 212
2000 Sergei Chikalkin Ural Great Perm 243

Russians

Edition Player Team Votes
2011 Sergei Monya PBC CSKA Moscow 2594

West

Edition Player Team Votes
1995 Evgeny Kisurin PBC CSKA Moscow 1224
1996 Evgeny Kisurin PBC CSKA Moscow 587
1997 Igor Kudelin PBC CSKA Moscow 289
1999 Vasily Karasev PBC CSKA Moscow 255
2000 Vasily Karasev and
Andrei Kirilenko
PBC CSKA Moscow
PBC CSKA Moscow
212

Foreigners

Edition Player Team Votes
2011 Keith Langford PBC CSKA Moscow 2074

Players with most selections

Player All-Star Editions Notes
Valeri Tikhonenko[13] 5 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000 1x MVP (1999)
Gintaras Einikis 4 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000
Sergei Panov 4 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000
Evgeny Pashutin 4 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999
Vasily Karasev 4 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000
Zakhar Pashutin 3 1995, 1997, 1999
Igor Kudelin[14] 3 1996, 1997, 2000
Valery Daineko 3 1996, 1997, 1999
Sergei Chikalkin[15] 3 1996, 1999, 2000
Sergei Bazarevich[16] 2 1997, 1999
Andrei Fetisov[17] 2 1997, 1998
Mikhail Mikhailov[18][19] 2 1999, 2001
Sergei Monia 2 2006, 2011 1x MVP (2011)
Vitaly Fridzon 2 2006, 2011
Anton Ponkrashov 2 2006, 2011
Evgeny Kisurin 2 1995, 1996
Anton Ponkrashov 2 2006, 2011
Andrei Kirilenko[20] 2 1999, 2000

Other notable participants

See also

References

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  15. ^ Sergei Chikalkin - euroleaguebasketball.net
  16. ^ Sergei Bazarevich - acb.com
  17. ^ Andrei Fetisov - acb.com
  18. ^ Mikhail Mikhailov - acb.com
  19. ^ Mikhail Mikhailov profile - euroleaguebasketball.net
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  21. ^ Julius Nwosu - acb.com
  22. ^ Tomas Pačėsas - euroleaguebasketball.net

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