The ECOMMBX Cyprus Basketball All-Star Game is an annual basketball event in Cyprus, established in 2011, organised by the Cyprus Basketball Federation and sponsored by ECOMMBX since 2024 and by OPAP until 2023. The event is being held mostly at the end of the year, around Christmas time and consists of a game between a Cyprus/Europe and a Rest of the World team, a three-point shoot contest and slam-dunk exhibition activities which replaced the slam-dunk contest. Since its inception it has been considered the biggest annual basketball event in Cyprus. All the games have been held in the 6,000 Eleftheria Indoor Hall, in Nicosia.The event was not held in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic, but it resumed on 17 December 2022.
List of games Bold: Team that won the game. YearDateArenaCityTeamScoreTeamMVP 2011 December 31 Eleftheria Indoor Hall Nicosia Cyprus/Europe All Stars 76-60USA/Rest of the World Charron Fisher 2012 December 31 Eleftheria Indoor Hall Nicosia Cyprus/Europe All Stars 82-85 USA/Rest of the World Orion Outerbridge 2013 December 28 Costas Papaellinas, Strovolos Nicosia Cyprus/Europe All Stars 104-115 USA/Rest of the World - 2014 December 28 Costas Papaellinas, Strovolos Nicosia Cyprus/Europe All Stars 85-100 USA/Rest of the World - 2015 December 28 Eleftheria Indoor Hall Nicosia Cyprus/Europe All Stars 64-79 USA All Stars - 2016 December 19 Eleftheria Indoor Hall Nicosia Cyprus/Europe All Stars 44-66 USA/Rest of the World - 2017 December 16 Eleftheria Indoor Hall Nicosia Cyprus/Europe All Stars 50-54 USA/Rest of the World - 2018 December 15 Eleftheria Indoor Hall Nicosia Cyprus/Europe All Stars 62-58USA/Rest of the World - 2019 December 14 Eleftheria Indoor Hall Nicosia Cyprus/Europe All Stars 62-69 USA/Rest of the World - 2022 December 17 Eleftheria Indoor Hall Nicosia Team Europe 100-84Team USA - 2023 December 16 Eleftheria Indoor Hall Nicosia Team Sizo 65-68 Team Stylianou - 2024 December 23 Eleftheria Indoor Hall Nicosia Team Louis 70-57Team Sofokleous Jonathan Cisse 2025 December 14 Eleftheria Indoor Hall Nicosia Team Dragons Team Griffins
Three-Point Shoot Contest Year Player Team2011 Vukašin Mandić APOEL2012 Vukašin Mandić (2) APOEL2013 Tyler Laser AEK Larnaca2014 Thaddus McFadden AEK Larnaca2015 Evan Smotrycz Keravnos Strovolou2016 Aris Koronides Keravnos Strovolou2017 Andreas Sizopoulos AEK Larnaca2018 Mike Balogun Enosis Neon Paralimni2019 Jordin Williams Enosis Neon Paralimni2022 Nikolaos Stylianou Keravnos Strovolou2023 Sara Dickey EKA AEL (Women's Cyprus League)2024 Nikolaos Stylianou (2) Keravnos Strovolou
Slam-Dunk champions Year Player Team2011 Isaac Wells APOEL2012 Isaac Wells (2) APOEL2013 Keith Gabriel AEK Larnaca
Players with most appearances PlayerAll-StarEditionsDOBNotes Panagiotis Trisokkas 8 2011-2018 1980 Iakovos Panteli 6 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019 1985 Iezekel Papadopoulos 6 2011-2014, 2018, 2019 1982 Andreas Sizopoulos 4 2014-2017 1983 1x Three-Point Contest Winner Tomislav Petrovic 4 2014-2017 1985 Andreas Pilavas 4 2011-2014 1983 Simon Michail 4 2014, 2016, 2017, 2019 1992
See also HEBA Greek All-Star Game
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