The ULEB All-Star Game was the all-star basketball exhibition game, which took part annually from 1992 until 1994 representing players from the Spanish and the Italian Leagues and also the French in its last edition. The All-Star Games only featured foreign players from each league and were considered as part of the now defunct Spanish and Italian Lega Basket All Star Games in its all three editions, but not of the French League which joined them only in the 1994 Games.^[1][2]

Background

The Union of European Leagues of Basketball (ULEB) was founded by the professional basketball organising bodies of Italy, France and Spain on June 25, 1991 in Rome, Italy in a bid to protect their clubs' financial interests within FIBA as their relationship with the latter has gradually started deteriorating. A year after, in November 1992, the Italian, and the Spanish League decided to unify their annual All-Star Games in a joint event that would feature the best foreign players currently competing in the top basketball leagues of Europe at the time. Madrid was chosen as the host city of the event to celebrate the anniversary of ULEB, under its president Gianluigi Porelli.^[3][4]

Concept

The events were design on the NBA All-Star Game pattern including an exhibition game, a slam-dunk and a three-point shoot contest. The duration of the games were 48 minutes, split in four quarters of twelve minutes each. There were no domestic players representing their leagues, but only the best foreign players were chosen. The majority of them were Americans, but there were also some talented Eastern Europeans such as Arvydas Sabonis, Predrag Danilovic, Zoran Savic, Aleksandar Đorđević, Alexander Volkov, Dejan Bodiroga and the only South American Oscar Schmidt.
The first two editions were officially named ACB/Lega and Lega/ACB All-Star Games respectively, depending on the country of origins of the venue, though they were organised by the Spanish and Italian federations who were the founders of ULEB. The last edition was officially renamed ULEB All-Star Game as the other ULEB's founding member, the French Federation participated. The last All-Star Game on November 14, 1994 included three games of 24 minutes between the three Federations, with the Italian League being crowned the winner of the competition after beating the French and the Spanish All-Stars.

List of games

Edition	Venue	Results	MVP	Team
1992	Palacio de los Deportes, Madrid	ACB – Lega Basket 136 - 123	Arvydas Sabonis	ACB All-Stars
1993	PalaEur, Rome	Lega Basket – ACB 135 - 131	Micheal Ray Richardson	Lega All-Stars
1994	Font de Sant Lluís, Valencia	Lega Basket – LNB 58 - 54 ACB – LNB 59 - 43 Lega Basket – ACB 53 - 48[5]	Aleksandar Đorđević	Lega All-Stars

1992 ULEB All-Star Game

1st ULEB All-Star Game 1992–93
Palacio de los Deportes, Madrid, November 14, 1992: Liga ACB All-Stars - Lega Basket All-Stars 136–123^[6]
Liga ACB All-Stars FIAT (Coaches: Miguel Ángel Martín Fernández, Lolo Sainz): Joe Arlauckas, Tim Burroughs, Darryl Middleton, Velimir Perasović, Harold Pressley, Kevin Pritchard, Arvydas Sabonis, Bogdan Tanjević, Reggie Slater, Chandler Thompson, Andre Turner, Rickie Winslow.
Lega Basket All-Stars POLTI (Coaches: Alberto Bucci, Ettore Messina): Greg "Cadillac" Anderson, Predrag Danilović, Darryl Dawkins, Darren Daye, Aleksandar Đorđević, A.J. English, Pace Mannion, Oscar Schmidt, Dino Rađja, Terry Teagle, Sasha Volkov, Haywoode Workman.

1993 ULEB All-Star Game

2nd ULEB All-Star Game 1993–94
PalaEur, Rome, November 13, 1993: Lega Basket All-Stars - Liga ACB All-Stars 135–131^[7]
Liga ACB All-Stars (Coaches: Clifford Luyk, José Alberto Pesquera): Michael Anderson, Joe Arlauckas, Roy Fisher, Dan Godfread, Dennis Hopson, Tony Massenburg, Darryl Middleton, Ivo Nakić, Oscar Schmidt, Fred Roberts, Andy Toolson, Andre Turner.
Lega Basket All-Stars POLTI (Coaches: Alberto Bucci, Fabrizio Frates): Joe Binion, Dejan Bodiroga, Predrag Danilović, Aleksandar Đorđević, Winston Garland, Dean Garrett, Dan Gay, Shelton Jones, Cliff Levingston, George McCloud, Micheal Ray Richardson, Henry Williams.

1994 ULEB All-Star Game

3rd ULEB All-Star Game 1994–95
Pavelló Municipal Font de Sant Lluís, Valencia, November 14, 1994: Lega Basket All-Stars - LNB All-Stars 58–54^[8]
Pavelló Municipal Font de Sant Lluís, Valencia, November 14, 1994: Liga ACB All-Stars - LNB All-Stars 59–43^[8]
Pavelló Municipal Font de Sant Lluís, Valencia, November 14, 1994: Lega Basket All-Stars - Liga ACB All-Stars 53–48^[8]
Lega Basket All-Stars (Coaches: Alberto Bucci, Bogdan Tanjević): Wendell Alexis, Joe Binion, Dejan Bodiroga, Dallas Comegys, Emanual Davis, Aleksandar Đorđević, Dan Gay, Gerald Glass, Billy McCaffrey, Petar Naumoski, Jeff Sanders, John Turner.
Liga ACB All-Stars (Coaches: Aíto García Reneses, Manu Moreno): Darrell Armstrong, Michael Curry, Roy Fisher, Dan Godfread, Kenny Green, Warren Kidd, Darryl Middleton, Oscar Schmidt, Corny Thompson, Andy Toolson, Andre Turner.
LNB All-Stars (Coaches: Božidar Maljković, Jacques Monclar): Ron Anderson, Winston Crite, Ron Curry, Tim Kempton, Conrad McRae, David Rivers, Michael Ray Richardson, Delaney Rudd, Rickie Winslow, Michael Young.

Three-Point Shootout

Edition	Venue	Winner	Team	Runner-up	Team
1992	Palacio de los Deportes, Madrid	Danko Cvjetićanin	ACB All-Stars	Aleksandar Đorđević	Lega All-Stars
1993	PalaEur, Rome	Oscar Schmidt	ACB All-Stars	Aleksandar Đorđević	Lega All-Stars
1994	Font de Sant Lluís, Valencia	Aleksandar Đorđević	Lega All-Stars	Dejan Bodiroga[9]	Lega All-Stars

Slam Dunk Contest

Edition	Venue	Winner	Team	Runner-up	Team
1992	Palacio de los Deportes, Madrid	Chandler Thompson	ACB All-Stars	Antonio Davis	Lega All-Stars
1993	PalaEur, Rome	Not held
1994	Font de Sant Lluís, Valencia	Chandler Thompson (2)	ACB All-Stars	Darrell Armstrong	Lega All-Stars

Players with multiple selections

Player	All-Star	Editions	Team
Darryl Middleton	3	1992, 1993, 1994	ACB All-Stars
Aleksandar Đorđević	3	1992, 1993, 1994	Lega All-Stars
Andre Turner	3	1992, 1993, 1994	ACB All-Stars
Oscar Schmidt	3	1992, 1993, 1994	Lega All-Stars, ACB All-Stars
Michael Ray Richardson	2	1992, 1994	Lega All-Stars, LNB All-Stars
Rickie Winslow	2	1992, 1994	ACB All-Stars, LNB All-Stars
Joe Arlauckas	2	1992, 1993	ACB All-Stars
Predrag Danilović	2	1992, 1993	Lega All-Stars
Andy Toolson	2	1993, 1994	ACB All-Stars
Dan Gay	2	1993, 1994	Lega All-Stars
Joe Binion	2	1993, 1994	Lega All-Stars

Coaches with most appearances

Player	All-Star	Editions	Team
Alberto Bucci	3	1992, 1993, 1994	Lega All-Stars

All-time Top Scorers

Rank	Player	Points	Team
1	Andre Turner	61	ACB All-Stars
2	Aleksandar Đorđević	49	Lega All-Stars
3	Oscar Schmidt	46	Lega All-Stars, ACB All-Stars
4	Darryl Middleton	37	ACB All-Stars
5	Michael Ray Richardson	31	Lega All-Stars, LNB All-Stars

References

External links

• Liga ACB Historia del All Star (in Spanish)