Israeli Basketball All-Star Game

Israeli Basketball All-Star Game
Status	Inactive
Frequency	Annually
Inaugurated	1990s
Most recent	2022
Organized by	Israeli League

The Israeli Basketball All-Star Game is an annual basketball event in Israel. The event was first played in the 1990s and it returned in the 2010-11 season after a lengthy hiatus. ^[1] The All-Star Game includes a match between a selection of the best players of the Israeli League, a slam-dunk and a three-point contest. The rosters for the All-Star Game are chosen by an online voting, with fans choosing one international player and one local player from each team. It is organized by the Israeli Basketball Premier League.

List of games

Bold: Team that won the game.

Year	Date	Venue	Team	Score	Team	MVP
1999		Jerusalem	Group A	n/a	Group B	Nate Huffman
2001 [2]	January 1	Haifa Romema Arena	Group A	n/a	Group B
2003			Group A	n/a	Group B
2011 [3]	February 28	Gan Ner Sports Hall	Israeli All Stars	122-117	Foreign All Stars	Lior Eliyahu
2012 [4]	March 9	Ashkelon Sports Arena	Israeli All Stars	113-109	Foreign All Stars	Elishay Kadir
2013 [5]	March 18	Haifa Romema Arena	Israeli All Stars	127-111	Foreign All Stars
2014 [6]	February 25	Beer-Sheva Arena	Israeli All Stars	103-111	Rest of the World	Shannon Shorter
2015 [7]	March 3	Holon Toto Hall	Israeli All Stars	122-121 (OT)	World All Stars	Robert Rothbart
2016 [8]	March 26	Eilat Begin Arena	Israeli All Stars	143-117	Foreign All Stars	Meir Tapiro
2017 [9]	April 18	Menora Mivtachim Arena	Israeli All Stars	129-137	Rest of the World	Amare Stoudemire
2018 [10]	March 2	Menora Mivtachim Arena	Israeli All Stars	137-122	Rest of the World	Pierre Jackson
2019 [11]	April 12	Menora Mivtachim Arena	Israeli All Stars	130-134	Rest of the World	JP Tokoto
2020-2021	Cancelled due to the pandemic
2022 [12]	March 19		Team J'Covan Brown	133-123	Team Guy Pnini	Ike Iroegbu

Three-Point Shoot Contest

Guy Pnini

Year	Winner	Team
2011	Jack McClinton	Hapoel Gilboa Galil
2012	Amit Simhon	Ironi Ashkelon
2013	Paul Stoll	Maccabi Haifa
2014	Zack Rosen	Maccabi Ashod
2015	Zack Rosen (2)	Maccabi Ashod
2016	Isaiah Swann	Maccabi Ashod
2017	Orlando Méndez-Valdez	Maccabi Haifa
2018	Guy Pnini	Hapoel Holon
2019	Guy Pnini	Hapoel Holon
2022	Guy Pnini (3)	Hapoel Holon

Slam-Dunk Contest

Mark Lyons slam-dunk winner in 2015.

Year	Winner	Team
2011	Jeremy Pargo & Adrian Banks (shared)	Maccabi Tel Aviv Barak Netanya
2012	Roi Buchbinder	Bnei Hasharon
2013	Scotty Hopson	Hapoel Eilat
2014	Itay Segev	Hapoel Holon
2015	Mark Lyons	Ironi Nahariya
2016	Gilbert Brown	Ironi Nahariya
2017	Eric Griffin	Hapoel Gilboa Galil
2018	Jaron Johnson	Ironi Nes Ziona
2019	Cor-J. Cox	Maccabi Ashod
2022	JP Tokoto	Hapoel Tel Aviv

Players with most appearances (1999-present)

Player	All-Star	Editions	Notes
Lior Eliyahu	7	2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017	1x MVP (2011)
Meir Tapiro	6	2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016	1x MVP (2016)
Elishay Kadir	5	2011, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2018	1x MVP (2012)
Shawn Dawson	5	2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018
Shlomi Harush	5	2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
Donta Smith	4	2013, 2014, 2015, 2016
Gal Mekel	4	2011, 2013, 2016, 2017
Afik Nissim	4	2013, 2014, 2016, 2017
Isaac Rosefelt	4	2012, 2014, 2015, 2016
Guy Pnini	4	2011, 2013, 2019, 2022	3x Three-Point Winner
Tamir Blatt	3	2017, 2018, 2019
Marco Killingsworth	3	2011, 2012, 2016
Adrian Banks	3	2011, 2012, 2018
Nate Huffman	2	1999, 2001	1x MVP (1999)
Tal Burstein	2	2001, 2003
Afik Nissim [13]	2	2001, 2003

Score sheets

Derrick Sharp

• All-Star Game 2001:

DATE:1 January 2001
VENUE: Romema Arena, Haifa
SCORE: Group A - Group B ?

Group A: Tal Burstein, Ariel McDonald, Nate Huffman, Nadav Henefeld, Derrick Sharp, Anthony Parker (all Maccabi Tel Aviv players), Yariv Yatzkan, Andre Spencer (both Ironi Ramat Gan players), Amir Muchtary (from Haifa B.C), Itzik Ochanon (from Bney Herzelia).

Group B: Lamont Jones, Yoav Saffar, Rimas Kaukenas (all Hapoel Galil Elyon players), Papi Turgeman, Kebo Stewart, Tony Dorsey (all Hapoel Jerusalem players), Guy Kantor, Yaniv Green (both Maccabi Raaanana players), Afik Nissim (from Maccabi Rishon LeZion), Tomer Steinhour (from Maccabi Givat Shmuel).

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