LKL All-Star Game

The LKL All-Star Game is the All-Star Game of the professional Lithuanian Basketball League (LKL). The game is held once every year. The participants of the game are chosen in two ways: the first is via fan ballot, with the leading vote recipients at each position starting the game; secondly the reserves are chosen by a vote among the head coaches of each squad. Coaches are not allowed to vote for their own players. If a player is injured, and cannot participate, the league's commissioner will select a replacement.

Features

The All-Star Game is played under normal FIBA rules, but there are notable differences from an average game.

The player introductions are usually accompanied by a significant amount of fanfare, including lighting effects, dance music, and pyrotechnics. Special uniforms are designed for the game each year, usually green for the Lithuanians, and white for the Time Team (non Lithuanians). A major recording artist typically sings the national anthem, prior to tip-off.

Game play usually involves players attempting spectacular slam dunks and alley oops. Defensive effort is limited, and the final score of the game is generally much higher than an average LKL game. The coaches also try to give most of the reserve players some playing time on the court, instead of using a limited rotation, as they would in a normal game. The fourth quarter of the game is often played in a more competitive fashion, if the game is close.

Halftime is also longer than a typical LKL game, due to musical performances, by various artists.

Every few years, LKL alternates matches from Lietuviai and Time Team (Lietuviai being the All-Star Lithuanian team, and Time Team being the All-Star foreigner team) to Vilkai and Ereliai (two teams of mixed foreign and Lithuanian players).

Results

Summaries

Year	(Arena), city	Result			MVP
		Champion	Score	Runner-up
1994	Panevėžys	Template:Flagicon Rytai	99–88	Template:Flagicon Vakarai	Template:Flagicon Gintaras Bačianskas (Lietkabelis)
1995	Šiauliai	Template:Flagicon Lietuviai	100–91	Template:Flagicon Time Team	Template:Flagicon Saulius Štombergas (LSU-Atletas), Template:Flagicon Patrick Jones (BC Olimpas)
1996	Vilnius	Template:Flagicon Lietuviai	83–81	Template:Flagicon Time Team	Template:Flagicon Rimas Kurtinaitis (BC Žalgiris)
1997	(Kaunas Sports Hall), Kaunas	Template:Flagicon Vakarai	108–107	Template:Flagicon Rytai
1998	Vilnius	Template:Flagicon Rytai	100–85	Template:Flagicon Vakarai
1999	(Kaunas Sports Hall), Kaunas	LKL Rinktinė	106-101	Žalgiris	Template:Flagicon Valdemaras Chomičius (Kraitenė Marijampolė)
2000	(Kaunas Sports Hall), Kaunas	Template:Flagicon Lietuviai	137–97	Template:Flagicon Time Team	Template:Flagicon Mindaugas Timinskas (BC Žalgiris)
2001	(Kaunas Sports Hall), Kaunas	Template:Flagicon Vilkai	124–120	Template:Flagicon Ereliai	Template:Flagicon Grigorij Khizhnyak (BC Žalgiris)
2002	(Kaunas Sports Hall), Kaunas	Template:Flagicon Ereliai	125–117	Template:Flagicon Vilkai	Template:Flagicon Robertas Javtokas (Lietuvos Rytas)
2003	(Kaunas Sports Hall), Kaunas	Template:Flagicon Vilkai	105–97	Template:Flagicon Ereliai	Template:Flagicon Arvydas Macijauskas (Lietuvos Rytas)
2004	(Kaunas Sports Hall), Kaunas	Template:Flagicon Lietuviai	131–113	Template:Flagicon Time Team	Template:Flagicon Tanoka Beard (BC Žalgiris)
2005	(Siemens Arena), Vilnius	Template:Flagicon Time Team	86–74	Template:Flagicon Lietuviai	Template:Flagicon Tanoka Beard (BC Žalgiris)
2006	(Siemens Arena), Vilnius	Template:Flagicon Lietuviai	107–88	Template:Flagicon Time Team	Template:Flagicon Simas Jasaitis (Lietuvos Rytas)
2007	(Siemens Arena), Vilnius	Template:Flagicon Lietuviai	108–108	Template:Flagicon Time Team	Template:Flagicon Jonas Mačiulis (BC Žalgiris), Template:Flagicon Kareem Rush (Lietuvos Rytas)
2008	(Šiauliai Arena), Šiauliai	Template:Flagicon Lietuviai	110–109	Template:Flagicon Time Team	Template:Flagicon Hollis Price (Lietuvos Rytas)
2009	(Kaunas Sports Hall), Kaunas	Template:Flagicon Vilkai	130–122	Template:Flagicon Ereliai	Template:Flagicon Chuck Eidson (Lietuvos Rytas)
2010	(Cido Arena), Panevėžys	Template:Flagicon Vilkai	109–104	Template:Flagicon Ereliai	Template:Flagicon Mindaugas Kuzminskas (BC Šiauliai)
2011	(Šiauliai Arena), Šiauliai	Template:Flagicon Lietuviai	122–114	Template:Flagicon Time Team	Template:Flagicon Jonas Valančiūnas (Lietuvos Rytas)
2012	(Švyturys Arena), Klaipėda	Template:Flagicon Lietuviai	115–100	Template:Flagicon Time Team	Template:Flagicon Jonas Valančiūnas (Lietuvos Rytas)
2013	(Šiauliai Arena), Šiauliai	Template:Flagicon Lietuviai	140–113	Template:Flagicon Time Team	Template:Flagicon Kšyštof Lavrinovič, Darjuš Lavrinovič (Žalgiris)
2014	(Švyturys Arena), Klaipėda	Template:Flagicon Vakarai	113–108	Template:Flagicon Rytai	Template:Flagicon Justin Dentmon (Žalgiris)
2015	(Siemens Arena), Vilnius	Template:Flagicon Amžini Priešininkai	105–95	Template:Flagicon LKL Žvaigždės	Template:Flagicon Travis Leslie (Lietuvos rytas)
2016	(Siemens Arena), Vilnius	Replaced by Karaliaus Mindaugo taurė

Other events

The All-Star Game is the featured event of the All-Star Day, which also includes a number of popular exhibition games, and competitions featuring LKL players. Such as the LKL Three-point Shootout and the LKL Slam Dunk Contest.

See also

• LKL All-Star Day
• LKL Three-point Shootout
• LKL Slam Dunk Contest
• LKL All-Star Game MVP