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The Lega Basket All Star Game, known for sponsorship reasons as the Beko All Star Game, is an all-star game organised annually by Lega Basket in conjunction with RCS Sport and the Italian Basketball Federation. It brings together a selection of players from the Lega Basket Serie A, the highest-tier professional basketball league in Italy, to play between themselves or against another opponent. First held in 1982, the event has seen a fluctuating history, with numerous changes of format through the years, including the participation of the Italian national team. ==History== The Italian Basketball Federation had organised an All Star Game in 1980 to celebrate Italy's silver medal at the 1980 Summer Olympics. 12 May 1982 saw the first All Star Game organised by the Lega Basket, the entity responsible for organising the top two professional leagues in Italy, the first-tier Serie A and second-tier Serie A2. Two teams from the respective divisions were chosen by the public at the league's games a few weeks before the game, also selecting the coaches for the game played at the Palasport di San Siro in Milan. For the November 1992 edition, the event was termed the All Star Game ULEB and organised in partnership with the Spanish ACB, seeing a squad from each league compete in Madrid. The formula was repeated the next year, this time in Rome. The 1994 edition of the All Star Game ULEB saw a team from the French League also take part. The three squads, mostly made up of foreign players, played each other in games of a single 20 minute quarter in Valencia's Fuente de San Luis. The Italian national team has participated in a number of All Star Games, originally the squad of Serie A based players was very similar to the main squad, with only one player (the Spain based Nikola Radulović) from the EuroBasket 2003 bronze medal team absent for the December 2003 edition. In more recent editions, with the departure of a number of players abroad (to the NBA for example), the Italy squads have been more experimental and have consisted mostly of reserve players and promising players. The 2014 and 2015 editions saw the absence of EA7 Emporio Armani Milano players as the club was involved in Euroleague games at the same period.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lega Basket All Star Game」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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