Russian Basketball All-Star Game
| Russian Basketball All-Star Game | |
|---|---|
| Status | Inactive |
| Frequency | Periodically |
| Inaugurated | 1994-95 |
| Most recent | 2010-11 |
| Organized by | Russian 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
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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
[edit | edit source]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 | Russia Alexei Pegushin Russia 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 | Russia 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 | Russia Sergei Monia | Dynamo Moscow |
Score sheets
[edit | edit source]- 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)
- Injured Zakhar Pashutin was replaced by Andrei Kirilenko. Also Andrey Yurtaev was replaced by Mikhail Mikhailov (from Greek club Aris BC) and Petrenko replaced Ruslan Avleev.
- 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
- Evgeny Pashutin replaced David Blatt.
- 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
[edit | edit source]Three-Point Shoot Contest
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| Year | Winner | Team | Runner-up | Team | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Russia Roman Dvinyaninov | Ural Great Perm | Kazakhstan Yuri Leonov | |||
| 2006 | Not held | |||||
| 2011 | United States Trajan Langdon | PBC CSKA Moscow | Serbia Dragan Labovic | BC Enisey | ||
Slam-Dunk champions
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| Year | Winner | Team | Runner-up | Team | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Russia Andrei Kirilenko | PBC CSKA Moscow | Russia Mikhail Vikhnevich | BC Enisey | ||
| 2006 | Not held | |||||
| 2011 | United States Gerald Green | Krasnye Krylia | Russia Valery Likhodey | Triumph Lyubertsy | ||
Topscorers
[edit | edit source]| Year | Player | Points | Team |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | Belarus Russia Valeri Daineko | 22 | PBC CSKA Moscow |
| 2006 | Russia Egor Vyaltsev | 34 | Ural Great Perm |
| 2011 | Russia Vitaly Fridzon | 27 | PBC CSKA Moscow |
All-Stars with most votes
[edit | edit source]Bold: Player with most votes overall per year.
East
| Edition | Player | Team | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Russia Valery Tikhonenko | CSK VVS-Samara | 1249 |
| 1996 | Russia Valery Tikhonenko | CSK VVS-Samara | 587 |
| 1997 | Lithuania Gintaras Einikis | Avtodor Saratov | 363 |
| 1999 | Russia Aleksandr Bashminov | Ural Great Perm | 212 |
| 2000 | Russia Sergei Chikalkin | Ural Great Perm | 243 |
Russians
| Edition | Player | Team | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | Russia Sergei Monya | PBC CSKA Moscow | 2594 |
West
| Edition | Player | Team | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Russia Evgeny Kisurin | PBC CSKA Moscow | 1224 |
| 1996 | Russia Evgeny Kisurin | PBC CSKA Moscow | 587 |
| 1997 | Russia Igor Kudelin | PBC CSKA Moscow | 289 |
| 1999 | Russia Vasily Karasev | PBC CSKA Moscow | 255 |
| 2000 | Russia Vasily Karasev and Russia Andrei Kirilenko |
PBC CSKA Moscow PBC CSKA Moscow |
212 |
Foreigners
| Edition | Player | Team | Votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | United States Keith Langford | PBC CSKA Moscow | 2074 |
Players with most selections
[edit | edit source]| Player | All-Star | Editions | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Russia Valeri Tikhonenko[13] | 5 | 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000 | 1x MVP (1999) |
| Lithuania Gintaras Einikis | 4 | 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000 | |
| Russia Sergei Panov | 4 | 1995, 1997, 1999, 2000 | |
| Russia Evgeny Pashutin | 4 | 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999 | |
| Russia Vasily Karasev | 4 | 1995, 1996, 1999, 2000 | |
| Russia Zakhar Pashutin | 3 | 1995, 1997, 1999 | |
| Russia Igor Kudelin[14] | 3 | 1996, 1997, 2000 | |
| Belarus Russia Valery Daineko | 3 | 1996, 1997, 1999 | |
| Russia Sergei Chikalkin[15] | 3 | 1996, 1999, 2000 | |
| Russia Sergei Bazarevich[16] | 2 | 1997, 1999 | |
| Russia Andrei Fetisov[17] | 2 | 1997, 1998 | |
| Russia Mikhail Mikhailov[18][19] | 2 | 1999, 2001 | |
| Russia Sergei Monia | 2 | 2006, 2011 | 1x MVP (2011) |
| Russia Vitaly Fridzon | 2 | 2006, 2011 | |
| Russia Anton Ponkrashov | 2 | 2006, 2011 | |
| Russia Evgeny Kisurin | 2 | 1995, 1996 | |
| Russia Anton Ponkrashov | 2 | 2006, 2011 | |
| Russia Andrei Kirilenko[20] | 2 | 1999, 2000 |
Other notable participants
[edit | edit source]- Nigeria Julius Nwosu (1996) [21]
- Lithuania Tomas Pačėsas (2000) [22]
- Lithuania Ramunas Siskauskas (2011)
- United States Russia John Robert Holden (2011)
- United States Russia Kelly McCarthy (2011)
- Poland Maciej Lampe (2011)
- United States Keith Langford (2011)
See also
[edit | edit source]References
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- ^ Six CSKA players will participate in the All-Star Game - cskabasket.ru
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- ^ Valeri Tikhonenko - acb.com
- ^ Igor Kudelin - euroleaguebasketball.net
- ^ Sergei Chikalkin - euroleaguebasketball.net
- ^ Sergei Bazarevich - acb.com
- ^ Andrei Fetisov - acb.com
- ^ Mikhail Mikhailov - acb.com
- ^ Mikhail Mikhailov profile - euroleaguebasketball.net
- ^ Andrei Kirilenko - euroleaguebasketball.net
- ^ Julius Nwosu - acb.com
- ^ Tomas Pačėsas - euroleaguebasketball.net
Sources
[edit | edit source]- 1995-2000 rosters (in Russian) at sport-express.ru
External links
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- Russian SuperLeague on Eurobasket.com (in English)
- Russian League Players (1998-1999) at eurobasket.com