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.
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. 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.
Bold: Team that won the game.
Super League All-Star Game
100th Anniversary All-Star Game
PBL All-Star Game
DATE: <br/> VENUE: Nova Arena, Saint Petersburg <br/> 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)
DATE: <br/> VENUE: CSKA Palace of Sports, Moscow <br/> 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)
DATE: April 5, 1997 <br/> VENUE: CSKA Palace of Sports, Moscow <br/> 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)
DATE: April 12, 1999<br/> VENUE: Universal Sports Palace, Perm, att: 7100 <br/> 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)
DATE: April 23, 2000 <br/> VENUE: Kazan <br/> 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) -
DATE: December 22, 2006 <br/> VENUE: Yubileyny Sports Palace, Saint Petersburg, att: 7500 <br/> 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
DATE: March 26, 2011 <br/> VENUE: Trade Union Sport Palace, Nizhny Novgorod, att: 3000 <br/> 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
Bold: Player with most votes overall per year.
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Russians
West
Foreigners