Cyprus Basketball All-Star Day

Cyprus Basketball All-Star Day
Status	Active
Inaugurated	2011
Most recent	2025
Organized by	Cyprus Basketball Federation

The OPAP Cyprus Basketball All-Star Game is an annual basketball event in Cyprus, organised by the Cyprus Basketball Federation and sponsored by OPAP and was established in 2011. 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. ^[1]

List of games

Bold: Team that won the game.

Year	Date	Arena	City	Team	Score	Team	MVP
2011 [2]	December 31	Eleftheria Indoor Hall	Nicosia	Cyprus/Europe All Stars	76-60	USA/Rest of the World	Charron Fisher
2012 [3]	December 31	Eleftheria Indoor Hall	Nicosia	Cyprus/Europe All Stars	82-85	USA/Rest of the World	Orion Outerbridge
2013 [4]	December 28	Eleftheria Indoor Hall	Nicosia	Cyprus/Europe All Stars	104-115	USA/Rest of the World	-
2014 [5]	December 28	Eleftheria Indoor Hall	Nicosia	Cyprus/Europe All Stars	85-100	USA/Rest of the World	-
2015 [6]	December 28	Eleftheria Indoor Hall	Nicosia	Cyprus/Europe All Stars	64-79	USA All Stars	-
2016 [7]	December 19	Eleftheria Indoor Hall	Nicosia	Cyprus/Europe All Stars	44-66	USA/Rest of the World	-
2017 [8]	December 16	Eleftheria Indoor Hall	Nicosia	Cyprus/Europe All Stars	50-54	USA/Rest of the World	-
2018 [9]	December 15	Eleftheria Indoor Hall	Nicosia	Cyprus/Europe All Stars	62-58	USA/Rest of the World	-
2019 [10]	December 14	Eleftheria Indoor Hall	Nicosia	Cyprus/Europe All Stars	62-69	USA/Rest of the World	-
2022 [11]	December 17	Eleftheria Indoor Hall	Nicosia	Team Europe	100-84	Team USA	-
2023 [12] [13]	December 16	Eleftheria Indoor Hall	Nicosia	Team Sizo	65-68	Team Stylianou	-
2025 [14]		Eleftheria Indoor Hall	Nicosia	Team Louis	70-57	Team Sofokleous	Jonathan Cisse

Three-Point Shoot Contest

Year	Player	Team
2011	Vukašin Mandić	APOEL
2012	Vukašin Mandić (2)	APOEL
2013	Tyler Laser	AEK Larnaca
2014	Thaddus McFadden	AEK Larnaca
2015	Evan Smotrycz	Keravnos Strovolou
2016	Aris Koronides	Keravnos Strovolou
2017	Andreas Sizopoulos	AEK Larnaca
2018	Mike Balogun	Enosis Neon Paralimni
2019	Jordin Williams	Enosis Neon Paralimni
2022	Nikolaos Stylianou	Keravnos Strovolou
2023	Sara Dickey	EKA AEL (Women's Cyprus League)

Slam-Dunk champions

Year	Player	Team
2011	Isaac Wells	APOEL
2012	Isaac Wells (2)	APOEL
2013	Keith Gabriel	AEK Larnaca

Players with most appearances

Player	All-Star	Editions	DOB	Notes
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

References

1. "OPAP All-Star Day returns". cyprusbasket.net. 30 November 2022.
2. "OPAP All-Star Day 2011".
3. "OPAP All-Star Day 2012".
4. "OPAP All-Star Day 2013".
5. "OPAP All-Star Day 2014".
6. "OPAP All-Star Day 2015".
7. "OPAP All-Star Day 2016".
8. "OPAP All-Star Day 2017".
9. "OPAP All-Star Day 2018".
10. "OPAP All-Star Day 2019".
11. "OPAP All-Star Day 2022".
12. "OPAP All-Star Day 2023".
13. "OPAP All-Star Day 2023 Rosters".
14. "Cypriot All-Star Game 2022-2025".