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:

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)

Head-to-head results

References

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