Bulgarian Basketball All-Star Game

NBL All-Star Game
Status	Inactive
Inaugurated	1990
Most recent	2017
Organized by	BFB NBL

The Bulgarian Basketball All-Star Game is an annual basketball event in Bulgaria, which has been organised by the Bulgarian Basketball Federation (BFB) 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

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] [12]	29 March 2015	Yambol		Turkish Airlines	131-99	Volkswagen	Lenny Daniel
2015-16 [13]	27 March 2016	Arena Silia, Plovdiv	1,000	Turkish Airlines	126-126	Volkswagen	Martin Durchev
2016-17 [14]	2 April 2017			Green Team	150-149	Blue Team	Jordan Semple

Three-Point Shoot Contest

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

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

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. ^[15] 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. ^[16] 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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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.
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6. "All-Star Game 2009-10 stats".
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12. National Basketball League (2014-2015) - eurobasket.com
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15. "Rodman All-Star Game 2012". novinite.com.
16. "Muggsy in All-Star Game 2010". novinite.com.