Philippine Basketball Association All-Star Game
The PBA All-Star Game is an exhibition game hosted annually by the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA), matching the league's star players using various formats. It is the featured event of PBA All-Star Weekend. The All-Star game was first staged at The ULTRA on June 4, 1989.
The starting lineup for each squad is selected by a fan ballot, while the reserves are chosen by a vote among the head coaches of the league's teams. If a selected player is injured and cannot participate, the league officials select a replacement. The head coaches of the teams that entered the season's first conference, the Philippine Cup, are chosen as the coaches of the teams in the All-Star Game.
Background
The annual All-Star Game was instituted in 1989 and has already evolved into different types of competition such as the Rookies, Sophomores & Juniors (RSJ) vs. Veterans, North vs. South match-up (presently adopted), Commissioners All-Stars vs. Governors All-Stars, etc. The manner by which players to the All-Star Game were selected has also been changed as the same was again patterned before the NBA type of selection. Originally, the two coaches tapped to lead the two All-Star teams were the ones who selected their players but over the years the starting five are now selected through fan voting and the reserves would now be the ones chosen by the head coaches of all the PBA teams. For the 2005-2006 season, fans from the host city or province were given the choice to select the sixth man of each team. After each game, an All-Star Most Valuable Player (MVP) was chosen by writers covering the annual event.
Vergel Meneses had clearly stamped his mark on this mid-year festivities as he remains to be the only four-time All-Star MVP awardee collecting the award in 1995, 1998, 2000 and 2003. In its entire history, four players have been named multiple winners of the All-Star MVP award namely, Meneses, Benjie Paras (1994 and 1999), Asi Taulava (2004 and 2006), and Jayjay Helterbrand (2005 and 2007).
Asi Taulava currently holds the record number of All-Star Game appearances with 14.[1]
Types
The league has adopted various formats for the All-Star Game:
- Veterans vs. Rookies-Sophomores-Juniors (RSJ): The Veteran team consists of players who have played in the league for four or more years. The RSJ team consists of players who have played in the league for less than four years.
- North vs. South: The players' team is assigned according to their birthplaces, and in cases of players born outside the Philippines, on their parents' birth places. Players from Luzon play for the North All-Stars, while those from Visayas and Mindanao play for the South All-Stars.
- Philippine men's national team vs PBA All-Stars: The Philippine team consist of PBA players from national pool with a naturalized player or a cadet player if any. The national team usually carries the name of its primary sponsor or its nickname. (e.g. Philippine Centennial Team, Powerade Team Pilipinas, Gilas Pilipinas)
All-Star Game results
This is a list of each All-Star Game, the venue at which it was played, and the Game MVP. Parenthesized numbers indicate multiple times that venue, city, or player has occurred as of that instance (e.g. "Vergel Meneses (2)" in 1998 indicates that was his second All-Star MVP award).
| Year | Winning team | Score | Losing team | Host venue | Host city | MVP (PBA team) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Veterans | 132–130 | Rookies-Sophomores-Juniors | The ULTRA | Pasig | Elmer Cabahug* (Alaska) |
| 1990 | Veterans | 146–118 | Rookies-Sophomores-Juniors | The ULTRA (2) | Pasig | Samboy Lim (San Miguel) |
| 1991 | Light Team All-Stars | 127–120 | Dark Team All-Stars | The ULTRA (3) | Pasig | Alvin Patrimonio (Purefoods) |
| 1992 | South All-Stars | 108–105 | North All-Stars | PSC-NASA (4) | Pasig | Alvin Teng (San Miguel) |
| 1993 | North All-Stars | 149–129 | South All-Stars | Cuneta Astrodome | Pasay | Allan Caidic (San Miguel) |
| 1994 | North All-Stars | 133–124 | South All-Stars | Cuneta Astrodome (2) | Pasay | Benjie Paras (Shell) |
| 1995 | Veterans | 112–107 | Rookies-Sophomores-Juniors | Cuneta Astrodome (3) | Pasay | Vergel Meneses (Sunkist) |
| 1996 | Rookies-Sophomores-Juniors | 131–115 | Veterans | Cuneta Astrodome (4) | Pasay | Kenneth Duremdes (Sunkist) |
| 1997 | Rookies-Sophomores-Juniors | 126–123 | Veterans | Cuneta Astrodome (5) | Pasay | Bal David (Gordon's Gin) |
| 1998 | Philippine Centennial Team | 114–109 | PBA All-Stars | Cebu Coliseum | Cebu City | |
| Philippine Centennial Team | 107–92 | PBA All-Stars | Cuneta Astrodome | Pasay | Vergel Meneses (2) (Pop Cola) | |
| 1999 | Veterans | 91–85 | Rookies-Sophomores-Juniors | PhilSports Arena (5) | Pasig | Benjie Paras (2) (Shell) |
| 2000 | Veterans | 93–78 | Rookies-Sophomores-Juniors | San Agustin Gym | Iloilo | Vergel Meneses (3) (Barangay Ginebra Kings) |
| 2001 | Veterans | 112–105 | Rookies-Sophomores-Juniors | Araneta Coliseum | Quezon City | Danny Ildefonso (San Miguel) |
| 2002 | No game held | |||||
| 2003 | Governors' All-Stars | 124–122 | Commissioner's All-Stars | Araneta Coliseum (2) | Quezon City | Vergel Meneses (4) (FedEx) |
| 2004 | South All-Stars | 130–128 | North All-Stars | Cebu Coliseum (2) | Cebu City | Asi Taulava (Talk 'N Text) Jimmy Alapag (Talk 'N Text) (co-winners) |
| 2005 | North All-Stars | 131–128 | South All-Stars | Ilocos Norte Centennial Arena | Laoag | Jayjay Helterbrand (Barangay Ginebra) |
| 2006 | South All-Stars | 122–120 | North All-Stars | Xavier University Gym | Cagayan de Oro | Asi Taulava (2) (Talk 'N Text) |
| 2007 | North All-Stars | 145–142 | South All-Stars | University of Baguio Gym | Baguio | Jayjay Helterbrand (2) (Barangay Ginebra) Willie Miller (Alaska) (co-winners) |
| 2008 | South All-Stars | 163–158 (OT)*** | North All-Stars | West Negros University Gym | Bacolod | Peter June Simon (Purefoods) |
| 2009 | PBA All-Stars | 97–89 | Powerade-Team Pilipinas | Araneta Coliseum (3) | Quezon City | David Noel** (Barangay Ginebra) |
| 2010 | North All-Stars | 133–100 | South All-Stars | Puerto Princesa Coliseum | Puerto Princesa | Gabe Norwood (Rain or Shine) |
| 2011 | North All-Stars | 133–129 | South All-Stars | Boracay Convention Center | Boracay | Marc Pingris (B-Meg Derby Ace) |
| 2012 | Veterans | 176–144 | Rookies-Sophomores-Juniors | Ilocos Norte Centennial Arena (2) | Laoag | James Yap (B-Meg) |
| 2013 | PBA All-Stars | 124–124 | Gilas Pilipinas | Davao del Sur Coliseum | Digos City | Arwind Santos (Petron Blaze) and Jeff Chan (Rain or Shine) |
| 2014 | Gilas Pilipinas | 101–93 | PBA All-Stars | Mall of Asia Arena | Pasay | Gary David (Meralco) |
| 2015 | North All-Stars | 166–161 | South All-Stars | Puerto Princesa Coliseum (2) | Puerto Princesa | Terrence Romeo (GlobalPort) |
| 2016 | North All-Stars | 154–151 | South All-Stars | Smart Araneta Coliseum (4) | Quezon City | Alex Cabagnot (San Miguel) |
- * MVP from losing team
- ** MVP was Import Player.
- *** The two teams requested for an overtime period to be held.
Head-to-head results
- RSJ vs. Veterans format: Veterans lead 7–2 (w-l).
- North vs. South format: North All-Stars lead, 8–4 (w-l).
- PBA stars vs. Philippine team format: Philippine team lead, 3–1–1 (w-l-d).
References
- ↑ Triple Towers' Fajardo, Slaughter, Taulava to start for South after emerging top vote-getters for PBA All-Star Game by: Karlo Sacamos, spin.ph, February 12, 2015
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