1989 PBA All-Star Game

1989 PBA All-Star Game
1234 Total
Rookies-Sophomores-Juniors 21383437 130
Veterans 35244033 132
Date June 4, 1989
Venue The ULTRA, Pasig City
MVP Boy Cabahug

The 1989 PBA All-Star Game is the first all-star weekend of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA), coinciding the 1989 PBA season.[1]

Background

PBA Commissioner Rudy Salud organized the league's first all-star game to showcase the younger players that have joined the league from 1988 and 1989, who became standouts in their respective teams against the veteran players, who are mostly in the league since its founding in 1975. [2] [3]

Before 1989, exhibition games were held in the provinces, notably in 1982, where the league's players from Luzon (named North All-Stars) were pitted against the league's players from Visayas and Mindanao (South All-Stars) in Cebu.

All-Star Game

Coaches

Dante Silverio of Formula Shell Zoom Masters and Baby Dalupan of Purefoods Hotdogs were selected as the head coaches of the Veterans' and Rookies-Sophomores-Juniors teams respectively. Both coaches were at the helm during the Crispa-Toyota rivalry, where Silverio coached the Toyota Super Corollas and Dalupan coached the Crispa Redmanizers.

Rosters

Game

June 4
6:20 p.m.
Veterans 132, Rookies-Sophomores-Juniors 130
Scoring by quarter: 35–21, 24–38, 40–34, 33–37
Pts: Ramon Fernandez 20 Pts: Boy Cabahug 24
Boy Cabahug was named the game's most valuable player. [4]

References

  1. "Bit of nostalgia in All-Star wars". Manila Standard.
  2. Clamor builds for Veterans vs Rookies-Sophomores-Juniors game, Reynaldo Belen, InterAKTV, October 14, 2011
  3. The 1989 PBA All-Star Game, Jaemark Tordecilla, FireQuinito.com, May 19, 2011
  4. "Veterans outlast Rookies-Sophomores". Manila Standard.
Preceded by
(first)
PBA All-Star Weekend
1989
Succeeded by
1990
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