Bulgarian Basketball All-Star Game

The Bulgarian Basketball All-Star Game is an annual basketball event in Bulgaria, which has been organised by the Bulgarian Basketball Federation since 1990. It is the oldest All-Star basketball event organised in Eastern Europe and it featured legendary former NBA player Georgi Glouchkov in its first edition. Many others distinguished players have been selected since then including Mike Wilkinson, Vassil Evtimov, Priest Lauderdale, Pero Antic. The All-Star Game includes a match between a selection of the best players of the NBL League, a slam-dunk and a three-point contest. The starting five of each selection is chosen by online voting, but on some occasions the All-Star players have been chosen but the coaches.
The last edition was played in 2017.

List of games

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Bold: Team that won the game.

Season Date Arena Attendance Team Score Team MVP
2003-04 [1] Kongresna Hall, Varna 5,000 South 122-116 South   Bryant Smith
2005-06 [2] Kongresna Hall, Varna 2,000 Bulgarian All Stars 86-88 Foreign All Stars   Lamont Jones
2006-07 [3] 1 April 2007 Universiada Hall, Sofia 1,750 Ledenika 98-101 Aquatec   Donta Smith
2007-08 [4] 3 March 2008 Arena Samokov, Samokov 3,000 Toyota 113-90 Ledenika   Todor Stoykov
2008-09 [5] 29 March 2009 Kongresna Hall, Varna 3,000 Ledenika 98-95 Toyota
2009-10 [6] 1 April 2010 Universiada Hall, Sofia 3,000 Jacobs 3 in 1 95-105 Toyota
2010-11 [7] 2 May 2011 Sports Hall Diana, Yambol 2,000 Foreign All Stars 128-126 Bulgarian All Stars   Aaron Harper
2011-12 [8] 8 April 2012 Armeets Arena, Sofia 6,000 Toyota 107-110 Turkish Airlines   Aaron Harper (2)
2012-13 [9] 26 April 2013 Armeets Arena, Sofia 2,000 Bulgarian All Stars 90-72 Foreign All Stars
2013-14 [10] 23 February 2014 Kongresna Hall, Varna 3,000 Bulgarian All Stars 95-88 Foreign All Stars
2014-15 [11] 29 March 2015 Turkish Airlines 131-99 Volkswagen   Lenny Daniel
2015-16 [12] 27 March 2016 Arena Silia, Plovdiv 1,000 Turkish Airlines 126-126 Volkswagen   Martin Durchev
2016-17 [13] 2 April 2017 Green Team 150-149 Blue Team   Jordan Semple

Three-Point Shoot Contest

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Year Winner Team
2004   Hrisimir Dimitrov Levski Sofia
2006   Tony Dechev CSKA Sofia
2007   Todor Stoykov Lukoil Academic Sofia
2011   Martin Durchev BC Yambol
2015   Ivan Lilov BC Balkan Botevgrad
2016   Plamen Aleksiev BC Beroe
2017   Konstantin Koev Spartak Pleven

Slam-Dunk Contest

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Year Winner Team
2004   Dimitar Horozov BC Yambol
2006   Christopher Moore CSKA Sofia
2007   Donta Smith Lukoil Academic Sofia
2011   Donald Cole BC Levski Sofia
2015   Pavel Marinov &
  Lenny Daniel (shared)
BC Balkan Botevgrad
Cherno More Port Varna
2016   Andrey Ivanov BC Yambol

Rodman and Muggsy Bogues in the All-Star Game

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In 2012 the Bulgarian Basketball Federation presided by Georgi Glouchkov invited former NBA superstar Dennis Rodman to attend the 2012 All-Star Game as a special guest. Rodman arrived in Sofia and in a press conference he even expressed his desire to play in the event. Though he attended the event he finally did not play.[14] Two years earlier Muggsy Bogues was invited by the Federation to attend the 2010 All-Star Game in Varna. He received a copy of a jersey worn by Georgi Glouchkov in the first 1990 edition at the press conference.[15] Bogues started the match by throwing the first ball, and was a member of the jury evaluating the performances in the dunking competition.

References

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  1. ^ "NBL All-Star Game 2003-04". Archived from the original on May 25, 2014.
  2. ^ "All-Star Game 2005-06". Archived from the original on May 25, 2014.
  3. ^ "All-Star Game 2006-07". Archived from the original on February 1, 2014.
  4. ^ "NBL All-Star Game 2007-08". Archived from the original on April 26, 2009.
  5. ^ "NBL All-Star Game 2008-09 Stats".
  6. ^ "All-Star Game 2009-10 stats".
  7. ^ "NBL All-Star Game 2010-11".
  8. ^ "All-Star Game 2011-12 stats".
  9. ^ "NBL All-Star Game 2012-13 stats".
  10. ^ "NBL All-Star Game 2014 stats".
  11. ^ "NBL All-Star Game 2014-15".
  12. ^ "NBL All-Star Game 2015-16".
  13. ^ "NBL All-Star Game 2016-17".
  14. ^ "Rodman All-Star Game 2012".
  15. ^ "Muggsy in All-Star Game 2010".