1972 ABA All-Star Game
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GAME 5: at Freedom Hall
, Louisville, Kentucky
, January 29, 1972
MVP: Dan Issel
, Kentucky Colonels
Coaches:
|- bgcolor="#dddddd"
|Player, Team|| MIN||FGM||FGA||3PM||3PA||FTM||FTA||REB||AST||PTS
|-bgcolor="#eeeeee"
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|| Willie Wise
, UTS || 33 || 5 || 8 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 7 || 9 || 3 || 15
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|| Zelmo Beaty
, UTS || 27 || 7 || 11 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 1 || 7 || 0 || 15
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|| Mel Daniels
, IND || 26 || 8 || 14 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 8 || 9 || 1 || 21
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|| Roger Brown
, IND || 25 || 2 || 7 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 1 || 6 || 2 || 4
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|| Donnie Freeman
, DLC || 21 || 3 || 8 || 0 || 0 || 7 || 8 || 5 || 2 || 13
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|| Ralph Simpson
, DNR || 20 || 6 || 14 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 1 || 0 || 12
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|| Steve Jones
, DLC || 19 || 3 || 7 || 1 || 1 || 2 || 2 || 2 || 3 || 9
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|| Freddie Lewis
, IND || 18 || 7 || 13 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 1 || 1 || 18
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|| Glen Combs
, UTS || 18 || 1 || 8 || 0 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 2
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|| Wendell Ladner
, CAR || 14 || 2 || 5 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 6 || 1 || 4
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|| Wil Jones
, MMP || 10 || 1 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 0 || 2
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|| Arthur Becker, DNR || 9 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 0
|-
|| Totals || 240 || 45 || 100 || 2 || 11 || 23 || 32 || 49 || 17 || 115
|-
|}
|- bgcolor="#dddddd"
|Player, Team|| MIN||FGM||FGA||3PM||3PA||FTM||FTA||REB||AST||PTS
|-bgcolor="#eeeeee"
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|| Artis Gilmore
, KEN || 27 || 4 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 6 || 10 || 10 || 2 || 14
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|| Rick Barry
, NYN || 26 || 2 || 10 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 12 || 8 || 4
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|| Julius Erving
, VIR || 25 || 9 || 15 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 2 || 6 || 3 || 20
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|| Dan Issel
, KEN || 23 || 9 || 13 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 4 || 9 || 5 || 21
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|| Charlie Scott
, VIR || 23 || 9 || 21 || 0 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 3 || 20
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|| John Brisker
, PTC || 21 || 3 || 10 || 0 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 5 || 3 || 8
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|| Jim McDaniels
, CAR || 20 || 11 || 15 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 3 || 11 || 1 || 24
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|| Bill Melchionni
, NYN || 18 || 2 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 1 || 2 || 2 || 5
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|| George Thompson
, PTC || 17 || 5 || 9 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 10
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|| Warren Jabali
, FLO || 17 || 2 || 8 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 9 || 1 || 4
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|| Mack Calvin
, FLO || 14 || 4 || 7 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 2 || 4 || 10
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|| Louie Dampier
, KEN || 9 || 1 || 4 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 3 || 2
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|| Totals || 240 || 61 || 121 || 0 || 7 || 20 || 29 || 71 || 37 || 142
|-
|}
|- bgcolor="#dddddd"
|Score by Periods:|| 1||2||3||4||Final
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|| West || 31 || 35 || 23 || 26 || 115
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|| East || 36 || 29 || 32 || 45 || 142
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|}
Freedom Hall
Freedom Hall is a multipurpose arena in Louisville, Kentucky, on the grounds of the Kentucky Exposition Center, which is owned by the Commonwealth of Kentucky...
, Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kentucky, and the county seat of Jefferson County. Since 2003, the city's borders have been coterminous with those of the county because of a city-county merger. The city's population at the 2010 census was 741,096...
, January 29, 1972
MVP: Dan Issel
Dan Issel
Daniel Paul Issel is a retired American Hall of Fame professional basketball player and coach.-Collegiate playing career:...
, Kentucky Colonels
Kentucky Colonels
The Kentucky Colonels were a member of the American Basketball Association for all of the league's nine years. The name is derived from the historic Kentucky colonels. The Colonels won the most games and had the highest winning percentage of any franchise in the league's history, but the team did...
Coaches:
- East: Joe Mullaney, Kentucky ColonelsKentucky ColonelsThe Kentucky Colonels were a member of the American Basketball Association for all of the league's nine years. The name is derived from the historic Kentucky colonels. The Colonels won the most games and had the highest winning percentage of any franchise in the league's history, but the team did...
- West: LaDell AndersenLaDell AndersenLaDell Andersen is a former professional and collegiate basketball coach.- Career :Andersen attended Utah State University, where he became a member of the Sigma Chi Fraternity. He was an All-Skyline Conference and an honorable mention All-American basketball player in 1951...
, Utah StarsUtah StarsThe Utah Stars was an American Basketball Association team based in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.Under head coach Bill Sharman the Stars were the first major professional basketball team to use a pre-game shootaround.-History:...
Western Conference
{| cellpadding=5|- bgcolor="#dddddd"
|Player, Team|| MIN||FGM||FGA||3PM||3PA||FTM||FTA||REB||AST||PTS
|-bgcolor="#eeeeee"
|-
|| Willie Wise
Willie Wise
Willie M. Wise is an American former professional basketball player.A 6'6" forward from Drake University, Wise earned a spot on the American Basketball Association's Los Angeles Stars as a walk-on in 1969...
, UTS || 33 || 5 || 8 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 7 || 9 || 3 || 15
|-
|| Zelmo Beaty
Zelmo Beaty
Zelmo "Big Z" Beaty is a former American basketball player.A 6'9" center from Prairie View A&M, Beaty was selected with the third pick of the 1962 National Basketball Association Draft by the St. Louis Hawks. Beaty was named to the inaugural NBA All-Rookie Team in 1963, and played a total of...
, UTS || 27 || 7 || 11 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 1 || 7 || 0 || 15
|-
|| Mel Daniels
Mel Daniels
Melvin Joe Daniels is a retired American professional basketball player.A 6' 9" center, he played for the University of New Mexico Lobo men's basketball team from 1964-67...
, IND || 26 || 8 || 14 || 0 || 0 || 5 || 8 || 9 || 1 || 21
|-
|| Roger Brown
Roger Brown
Roger William Brown , nicknamed "The Rajah", was an American professional basketball player.-Career:A 6'5" forward/guard, Brown starred at Brooklyn's George W...
, IND || 25 || 2 || 7 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 1 || 6 || 2 || 4
|-
|| Donnie Freeman
Donnie Freeman
Donald E. Freeman is an American former professional basketball player. He spent eight seasons in the American Basketball Association and, after the ABA-NBA merger, one season in the National Basketball Association...
, DLC || 21 || 3 || 8 || 0 || 0 || 7 || 8 || 5 || 2 || 13
|-
|| Ralph Simpson
Ralph Simpson
Ralph Derek Simpson is a retired American basketball player. He played professionally in the ABA and NBA from 1970 to 1980....
, DNR || 20 || 6 || 14 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 1 || 0 || 12
|-
|| Steve Jones
Steve Jones (basketball)
Stephen Howard "Snapper" Jones is one of the most esteemed and watched National Basketball Association television analysts.-Basketball career:...
, DLC || 19 || 3 || 7 || 1 || 1 || 2 || 2 || 2 || 3 || 9
|-
|| Freddie Lewis
Freddie Lewis
Frederick L. Lewis is a retired American basketball player. He played professionally in the National Basketball Association and now defunct American Basketball Association from 1966 to 1977....
, IND || 18 || 7 || 13 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 1 || 1 || 18
|-
|| Glen Combs
Glen Combs
Glen Courtney Combs is a retired American basketball player.A 6'2" guard from Virginia Tech, Combs was nicknamed "The Kentucky Rifle" for his long-range shooting...
, UTS || 18 || 1 || 8 || 0 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 2
|-
|| Wendell Ladner
Wendell Ladner
Wendell Ladner was an American professional basketball player. He played college basketball at The University of Southern Mississippi where he became a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity....
, CAR || 14 || 2 || 5 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 6 || 1 || 4
|-
|| Wil Jones
Wil Jones
Wilbert "Wil" Jones is an American former professional basketball player.A 6'8" forward from Albany State University, Jones was drafted in the fifth round of the 1969 NBA Draft by the Los Angeles Lakers and by the Miami Floridians in the 1969 ABA Draft.Jones played seven seasons in the American...
, MMP || 10 || 1 || 3 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 0 || 2
|-
|| Arthur Becker, DNR || 9 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 0
|-
|| Totals || 240 || 45 || 100 || 2 || 11 || 23 || 32 || 49 || 17 || 115
|-
|}
Eastern Conference
{| cellpadding=5|- bgcolor="#dddddd"
|Player, Team|| MIN||FGM||FGA||3PM||3PA||FTM||FTA||REB||AST||PTS
|-bgcolor="#eeeeee"
|-
|| Artis Gilmore
Artis Gilmore
Artis Gilmore is a retired American Hall of Fame basketball player who played in the American Basketball Association and National Basketball Association...
, KEN || 27 || 4 || 5 || 0 || 0 || 6 || 10 || 10 || 2 || 14
|-
|| Rick Barry
Rick Barry
Richard Francis Dennis Barry III , better known as Rick Barry, is a retired American professional basketball player. He is considered by many veteran basketball observers to be one of the greatest pure small forwards of all time as a result of his very precise outside shot, uncanny court vision,...
, NYN || 26 || 2 || 10 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 12 || 8 || 4
|-
|| Julius Erving
Julius Erving
Julius Winfield Erving II , commonly known by the nickname Dr. J, is a retired American basketball player who helped launch a modern style of play that emphasizes leaping and play above the rim....
, VIR || 25 || 9 || 15 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 2 || 6 || 3 || 20
|-
|| Dan Issel
Dan Issel
Daniel Paul Issel is a retired American Hall of Fame professional basketball player and coach.-Collegiate playing career:...
, KEN || 23 || 9 || 13 || 0 || 0 || 3 || 4 || 9 || 5 || 21
|-
|| Charlie Scott
Charlie Scott
Charles Thomas Scott is an American former professional basketball player. He played two seasons in the now-defunct American Basketball Association and eight seasons in the National Basketball Association .A 6'5" guard/forward from the Laurinburg Institute...
, VIR || 23 || 9 || 21 || 0 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 3 || 20
|-
|| John Brisker
John Brisker
John Brisker was an American professional basketball player who disappeared in Uganda in April 1978. He was declared legally dead in 1985.-Sports career:...
, PTC || 21 || 3 || 10 || 0 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 5 || 3 || 8
|-
|| Jim McDaniels
Jim McDaniels
James Ronald McDaniels is an American former professional basketball player.A 6'11" power forward/center, McDaniels averaged nearly 40 points per game as a senior at Allen County High School in Kentucky. From 1968 to 1971, he played at Western Kentucky University, leading his team to a third place...
, CAR || 20 || 11 || 15 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 3 || 11 || 1 || 24
|-
|| Bill Melchionni
Bill Melchionni
William P. "Bill" Melchionni is a former NBA and ABA player.Melchionni was a wispy guard from Bishop Eustace Prep who was a collegiate star in the mid-1960s at Villanova University and was the Most Valuable Player in the 1966 NIT...
, NYN || 18 || 2 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 1 || 2 || 2 || 5
|-
|| George Thompson
George Thompson (basketball)
George "Tip" Thompson is a former professional basketball player. A 6'2" guard, he attended Erasmus Hall High School from which he graduated in 1965...
, PTC || 17 || 5 || 9 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 10
|-
|| Warren Jabali
Warren Jabali
Warren Jabali is a retired American basketball player. He played professionally in the American Basketball Association from 1968 to 1975.-Early career:...
, FLO || 17 || 2 || 8 || 0 || 1 || 0 || 0 || 9 || 1 || 4
|-
|| Mack Calvin
Mack Calvin
Mack Calvin is an American former basketball player.-College career:A 6'0" point guard from Long Beach City College and the University of Southern California, Calvin was a 14th-round draft pick of the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers in 1969.In his final college season, Calvin and his Trojans defeated the...
, FLO || 14 || 4 || 7 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 2 || 4 || 10
|-
|| Louie Dampier
Louie Dampier
Louis "Louie" Dampier is a retired American professional basketball player.A 6-foot-tall guard, Dampier is one of only a handful of men to play all nine seasons in the American Basketball Association , all with the Kentucky Colonels...
, KEN || 9 || 1 || 4 || 0 || 2 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 3 || 2
|-
|| Totals || 240 || 61 || 121 || 0 || 7 || 20 || 29 || 71 || 37 || 142
|-
|}
Score by Periods
{| cellpadding=5|- bgcolor="#dddddd"
|Score by Periods:|| 1||2||3||4||Final
|-
|| West || 31 || 35 || 23 || 26 || 115
|-
|| East || 36 || 29 || 32 || 45 || 142
|-
|}
- Halftime — West, 66-65
- Third Quarter — East, 97-89
- Officials: John VanakJohn VanakJohn Vanak was a referee in the American Basketball Association and the National Basketball Association.In 1969, when the upstart American Basketball Association was raiding the NBA for talent, Vanak, along with three other top NBA "lead" referees — Joe Gushue, Earl Strom and Norm Drucker - jumped...
and Bob Serafin - Attendance: 15,738.