WBL All-Star Game

The WBL All-Star Game was an annual basketball event in the United States, organised by the World Basketball League.^[1] It was launched in 1988 and lasted until 1991. The event was held annually and consisted of an all-star game, a three-point shoot contest and slam-dunk exhibition.

World Basketball League All-Star Game
Status	Inactive
Frequency	Annually
Inaugurated	1988
Most recent	1991
Organized by	World Basketball League

Many former NBA players like Mario Elie, Vincent Askew, Fred Cofield, and Craig Neal have played in the All-Star Game. The event was televised by the SportsChannel.

History

The first edition took place at the Olympic Saddledome of Calgary in Canada on July 7, 1990, in front of 7,000 speactators.^[2][3] The second edition was held in Las Vegas in front of 10.550 fans on July 12, 1989.^[4] The event returned to Canada in 1991 for its fourth and final edition.

List of games

Bold: Team that won the game.

Year	Date	Location	Team 1	Score	Team 2	MVP	Club
1988	July 7	Calgary	West	131-120	East	Jose Slaughter	Vancouver Nighthawks
1989	July 17	Las Vegas	Las Vegas Silver Streaks	144-148	WBL All-Stars	Darryl Kennedy [5]	Las Vegas Silver Streaks
1990	July 1	Youngstown	West	150-123	East	Vincent Askew	Memphis Rockers
1991	July 10	Halifax	South	130-120	North	Craig Neal	Florida Jades

Three-Point Shoot Contest

Year	Player	Team
1988	Chip Engelland	Calgary 88's
1989	Chip Engelland (2)	Calgary 88's
1990	Fred Cofield	Youngstown Pride
1991	Fred Cofield (2)	Youngstown Pride

Slam-Dunk champions

Year	Player	Team
1988	Jeff Collins	Las Vegas Silver Streaks
1989	Willie Bland Tim Legler [a]	Youngstown Pride Youngstown Pride
1990 [6]	Mario Donaldson [7]	Saskatchewan Storm
1991	Milt Newton	Halifax Windjammers

Topscorers

Year	Player	Points	Team
1998	Kalpic	28

Notable participants

Former NBA player Chip Engelland was the 3-point contest winner twice.

• Tim Legler
• Mario Elie
• Chip Engelland
• Fred Cofield
• Vincent Askew

WBL All-Stars

The league also had an team of All-Stars. At Christmas of 1989 the All-Stars represented the league in an international tournament hosted by Sunair Oostende in Belgium.^[8] In July 1990 the All-Stars toured Italy and recorded 5 wins out of 6 games against professional clubs from six Italian cities.^[9][10] Overall in 1990, the All-Star team won tournaments in Holland, the Soviet Union, Finland, France while they were finalists in events in Yugoslavia, Italy and in a European championship.^[11] By November 1991, the WBL teams had won around 90 percent of their international matches.

In November 1991, the All-Stars participated in the sixth Merlion Cup in Singapore in a weeklong tournament (against Kiev Stroitel and BC Spartak Leningrad, the Chinese national team, a Canadian all-star team, and teams from Australia, Hong Kong and Singapore) reaching the semifinals.

See also

• World Basketball League