Cyprus Basketball All-Star Day Explained

The OPAP Cyprus Basketball All-Star Game is an annual basketball event in Cyprus, organised by the Cyprus Basketball Federation and sponsored by OPAP and was established in 2011. The event is being held mostly at the end of the year, around Christmas time and consists of a game between a Cyprus/Europe and a Rest of the World team, a three-point shoot contest and slam-dunk exhibition activities which replaced the slam-dunk contest. Since its inception it has been considered the biggest annual basketball event in Cyprus. All the games have been held in the 6,000 Eleftheria Indoor Hall, in Nicosia.
The event was not held in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic, but it is scheduled to resume on 17 December 2022.[1]

List of games

Bold: Team that won the game.

YearDateArenaCityTeamScoreTeamMVP
2011 [2] December 31bgcolor=lightyellow align="center"Cyprus/Europe All Stars76-60USA/Rest of the World Charron Fisher
2012 [3] December 31Cyprus/Europe All Stars82-85bgcolor=lightyellow align="center"USA/Rest of the World Orion Outerbridge
2013 [4] December 28Cyprus/Europe All Stars104-115bgcolor=lightyellow align="center"USA/Rest of the World-
2014 [5] December 28Cyprus/Europe All Stars85-100bgcolor=lightyellow align="center"USA/Rest of the World-
2015 [6] December 28Cyprus/Europe All Stars64-79bgcolor=lightyellow align="center"USA All Stars-
2016 [7] December 19Cyprus/Europe All Stars44-66bgcolor=lightyellow align="center"USA/Rest of the World-
2017 [8] December 16Cyprus/Europe All Stars50-54bgcolor=lightyellow align="center"USA/Rest of the World-
2018 [9] December 15bgcolor=lightyellow align="center"Cyprus/Europe All Stars62-58USA/Rest of the World -
2017 [10] December 14Cyprus/Europe All Stars62-69bgcolor=lightyellow align="center"USA/Rest of the World-

Three-Point Shoot Contest

Yearwidth=180 Playerwidth=180 Team
2011 APOEL
2012 Vukašin Mandić (2) APOEL
2013 Tyler Laser AEK Larnaca
2014 AEK Larnaca
2015 Keravnos Strovolou
2016 Aris Koronides Keravnos Strovolou
2017 Andreas Sizopoulos AEK Larnaca
2018 Mike Balogun Enosis Neon Paralimni
2019 Jordin Williams Enosis Neon Paralimni

Slam-Dunk champions

Yearwidth=180 Playerwidth=180 Team
2011 Isaac Wells APOEL
2012 Isaac Wells (2) APOEL
2013 Keith Gabriel AEK Larnaca

Players with most appearances

PlayerAll-StarEditionsDOBNotes
Panagiotis Trisokkas 8 2011-20181980
Iakovos Panteli 6 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, 2018, 20191985
Iezekel Papadopoulos 6 2011-2014, 2018, 20191982
Andreas Sizopoulos 4 2014-20171983 1x Three-Point Contest Winner
Tomislav Petrovic 4 2014-20171985
Andreas Pilavas 4 2011-20141983
Simon Michail 4 2014, 2016, 2017, 20191992

Notes and References

  1. Web site: OPAP All-Star Day returns. 30 November 2022. cyprusbasket.net.
  2. Web site: OPAP All-Star Day 2011.
  3. Web site: OPAP All-Star Day 2012.
  4. Web site: OPAP All-Star Day 2013.
  5. Web site: OPAP All-Star Day 2014.
  6. Web site: OPAP All-Star Day 2015.
  7. Web site: OPAP All-Star Day 2016.
  8. Web site: OPAP All-Star Day 2017.
  9. Web site: OPAP All-Star Day 2018.
  10. Web site: OPAP All-Star Day 2019.