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. 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. 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.Six CSKA players will participate in the All-Star Game - cskabasket.ru The PBL All-Star Game took place in front of 3,000 spectators. 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 YearDateVenueCityTeam 1ScoreTeam 2MVPClub 1995 Nova Arena Saint Petersburg East West 1996 CSKA Palace of Sports Moscow East West 1997 April 5 CSKA Palace of Sports Moscow East West 1998 Not held 1999 April 12 Universal Sports Palace Perm East 107-138 West Alexei Pegushin Valeri Tikhonenko Ural Great Perm Dynamo Moscow 2000 April 23 Kazan East West 2001 April 23 Palace of Sports Rostov Russians Foreigners
100th Anniversary All-Star Game YearDateVenueCityTeam 1ScoreTeam 2MVPClub 2006 22 December Yubileyny Sports Palace Saint Petersburg Red Team '106-98 White Team Egor Vyaltsev Ural Great Perm
PBL All-Star Game YearDateVenueCityTeam 1ScoreTeam 2MVPClub 2011 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)
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 Three-Point Shoot Contest
Year Winner Team Runner-up Team1999 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 Team1999 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 Team1999 Valeri Daineko 22 PBC CSKA Moscow2006 Egor Vyaltsev 34 Ural Great Perm2011 Vitaly Fridzon 27 PBC CSKA Moscow
All-Stars with most votes Bold: Player with most votes overall per year.
East Edition Player Team Votes1995 Valery Tikhonenko CSK VVS-Samara 1249 1996 Valery Tikhonenko CSK VVS-Samara 5871997 Gintaras Einikis Avtodor Saratov 3631999 Aleksandr Bashminov Ural Great Perm 2122000 Sergei Chikalkin Ural Great Perm 243
Russians Edition Player Team Votes2011 Sergei Monya PBC CSKA Moscow 2594
West Edition Player Team Votes1995 Evgeny Kisurin PBC CSKA Moscow 1224 1996 Evgeny Kisurin PBC CSKA Moscow 5871997 Igor Kudelin PBC CSKA Moscow 2891999 Vasily Karasev PBC CSKA Moscow 2552000 Vasily Karasev and Andrei Kirilenko PBC CSKA Moscow PBC CSKA Moscow 212
Foreigners Edition Player Team Votes2011 Keith Langford PBC CSKA Moscow 2074
Players with most selections
PlayerAll-StarEditionsNotes Valeri TikhonenkoValeri Tikhonenko - acb.com 51995, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000 1x MVP (1999) Gintaras Einikis 41996, 1997, 1999, 2000 Sergei Panov 41995, 1997, 1999, 2000 Evgeny Pashutin 41995, 1996, 1997, 1999 Vasily Karasev 41995, 1996, 1999, 2000 Zakhar Pashutin 31995, 1997, 1999 Igor KudelinIgor Kudelin - euroleaguebasketball.net 31996, 1997, 2000 Valery Daineko 31996, 1997, 1999 Sergei Chikalkin Sergei Chikalkin - euroleaguebasketball.net 31996, 1999, 2000 Sergei BazarevichSergei Bazarevich - acb.com 21997, 1999 Andrei FetisovAndrei Fetisov - acb.com 21997, 1998 Mikhail MikhailovMikhail Mikhailov - acb.com Mikhail Mikhailov profile - euroleaguebasketball.net 21999, 2001 Sergei Monia 22006, 2011 1x MVP (2011) Vitaly Fridzon 22006, 2011 Anton Ponkrashov 22006, 2011 Evgeny Kisurin 21995, 1996 Anton Ponkrashov 22006, 2011 Andrei KirilenkoAndrei Kirilenko - euroleaguebasketball.net21999, 2000
Other notable participants Julius Nwosu (1996) Julius Nwosu - acb.com Tomas Pačėsas (2000) Tomas Pačėsas - euroleaguebasketball.net Ramunas Siskauskas (2011) John Robert Holden (2011) Kelly McCarthy (2011) Maciej Lampe (2011) Keith Langford (2011)
See also VTB United League All-Star Game
References
Sources 1995-2000 rosters (in Russian) at sport-express.ru
External links
Russian SuperLeague on Eurobasket.com Russian League Players (1998-1999) at eurobasket.com