1970 NBA All-Star Game
Encyclopedia
GAME 20: at the Spectrum
in Philadelphia, January 20, 1970.
MVP: Willis Reed
Coaches: East: Red Holzman
, West: Richie Guerin
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Network: ABC
|- bgcolor="#dddddd"
|Player, Team|| MIN||FGM||FGA||FTM||FTA||REB||AST||PF||PTS
|-bgcolor="#eeeeee"
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|| Willis Reed
, NYK || 30 || 9 || 18 || 3 || 3 || 11 || 0 || 6 || 21
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|| Oscar Robertson
, CIN || 29 || 9 || 11 || 3 || 4 || 6 || 4 || 3 || 21
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|| John Havlicek
, BOS || 29 || 7 || 15 || 3 || 3 || 5 || 7 || 2 || 17
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|| Billy Cunningham
, PHI || 28 || 7 || 13 || 5 || 5 || 4 || 2 || 3 || 19
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|| Walt Frazier
, NYK || 24 || 3 || 7 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 2 || 7
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|| Hal Greer
, PHI || 21 || 7 || 11 || 1 || 1 || 4 || 3 || 4 || 15
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|| Lew Alcindor
, MIL || 18 || 4 || 8 || 2 || 2 || 11 || 4 || 6 || 10
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|| Gus Johnson
, BAL || 17 || 5 || 12 || 0 || 0 || 7 || 1 || 2 || 10
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|| Dave DeBusschere
, NYK || 14 || 5 || 10 || 0 || 0 || 7 || 2 || 1 || 10
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|| Jimmy Walker
, DET || 14 || 0 || 3 || 1 || 1 || 1 || 0 || 2 || 1
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|| Flynn Robinson
, MIL || 8 || 3 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 2 || 2 || 6
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|| Tom Van Arsdale
, CIN || 8 || 2 || 7 || 1 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 2 || 5
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|| Totals || 240 || 61 || 119 || 20 || 22 || 60 || 30 || 35 || 142
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|- bgcolor="#dddddd"
|Player, Team|| MIN||FGM||FGA||FTM||FTA||REB||AST||PF||PTS
|-bgcolor="#eeeeee"
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|| Elvin Hayes
, SDR || 35 || 9 || 21 || 6 || 12 || 15 || 1 || 1 || 24
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|| Jerry West
, LAL || 31 || 7 || 12 || 8 || 12 || 5 || 5 || 3 || 22
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|| Elgin Baylor
, LAL || 26 || 2 || 9 || 5 || 7 || 7 || 3 || 3 || 9
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|| Joe Caldwell
, ATL || 19 || 5 || 11 || 3 || 4 || 7 || 1 || 2 || 13
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|| Connie Hawkins
, PHO || 19 || 2 || 4 || 6 || 6 || 4 || 2 || 3 || 10
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|| Lou Hudson
, ATL || 18 || 5 || 12 || 5 || 5 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 15
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|| Lenny Wilkens
, SEA || 17 || 5 || 7 || 2 || 3 || 2 || 4 || 1 || 12
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|| Chet Walker
, CHI || 17 || 1 || 3 || 2 || 2 || 2 || 1 || 2 || 4
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|| Dick Van Arsdale
, PHO || 16 || 4 || 8 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 2 || 0 || 8
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|| Bill Bridges
, ATL || 15 || 2 || 2 || 1 || 5 || 4 || 2 || 1 || 5
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|| Jeff Mullins, SFW || 14 || 4 || 6 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 1 || 2 || 8
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|| Bob Rule
, SEA || 13 || 2 || 6 || 1 || 1 || 4 || 0 || 2 || 5
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|| Totals || 240 || 48 || 101 || 39 || 57 || 54 || 22 || 21 || 135
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|}
|- bgcolor="#dddddd"
|Score by Periods:|| 1||2||3||4||Final
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|| East || 36 || 35 || 35 || 36 || 142
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|| West || 21 || 38 || 26 || 50 || 135
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|}
Wachovia Spectrum
The Spectrum, formerly known as the CoreStates Spectrum , First Union Spectrum , and Wachovia Spectrum was an indoor arena in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
in Philadelphia, January 20, 1970.
MVP: Willis Reed
Willis Reed
Willis Reed, Jr. is a retired American basketball player, coach and manager of basketball teams. He spent his entire professional playing career with the New York Knicks. In 1982, his outstanding record and achievements were recognized by his induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall...
Coaches: East: Red Holzman
Red Holzman
William "Red" Holzman was an NBA basketball player and coach probably best known as the head coach of the New York Knicks from 1967 to 1982. Holzman helped lead the Knicks to two NBA Championships in 1970 and 1973, and was elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1985...
, West: Richie Guerin
Richie Guerin
Richard Vincent "Richie" Guerin is a retired American professional basketball player and coach. The 6'4" Guerin played with the National Basketball Association's New York Knicks from 1956 to 1963 and was a player-coach of the St...
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Network: ABC
American Broadcasting Company
The American Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network. Created in 1943 from the former NBC Blue radio network, ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Company and is part of Disney-ABC Television Group. Its first broadcast on television was in 1948...
Eastern Conference
{| cellpadding=5|- bgcolor="#dddddd"
|Player, Team|| MIN||FGM||FGA||FTM||FTA||REB||AST||PF||PTS
|-bgcolor="#eeeeee"
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|| Willis Reed
Willis Reed
Willis Reed, Jr. is a retired American basketball player, coach and manager of basketball teams. He spent his entire professional playing career with the New York Knicks. In 1982, his outstanding record and achievements were recognized by his induction into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall...
, NYK || 30 || 9 || 18 || 3 || 3 || 11 || 0 || 6 || 21
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|| Oscar Robertson
Oscar Robertson
Oscar Palmer Robertson , nicknamed "The Big O", is a former American NBA player with the Cincinnati Royals and the Milwaukee Bucks...
, CIN || 29 || 9 || 11 || 3 || 4 || 6 || 4 || 3 || 21
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|| John Havlicek
John Havlicek
John J. "Hondo" Havlicek is a retired American professional basketball player who competed for 16 seasons with the Boston Celtics, winning eight NBA titles, half of them coming in his first four seasons....
, BOS || 29 || 7 || 15 || 3 || 3 || 5 || 7 || 2 || 17
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|| Billy Cunningham
Billy Cunningham
William John "Billy" Cunningham is an American former professional basketball player and coach, who was nicknamed the Kangaroo Kid.- Beginnings :...
, PHI || 28 || 7 || 13 || 5 || 5 || 4 || 2 || 3 || 19
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|| Walt Frazier
Walt Frazier
Walter "Clyde" Frazier is a retired American basketball player in the National Basketball Association . He was blessed with a unique combination of court vision, quickness, and size for a guard...
, NYK || 24 || 3 || 7 || 1 || 2 || 3 || 4 || 2 || 7
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|| Hal Greer
Hal Greer
Harold Everett Greer is a retired American professional basketball player.He attended Douglass Junior and Senior High School in Huntington. He played college basketball at Marshall University and was drafted by the Syracuse Nationals of the NBA in 1958...
, PHI || 21 || 7 || 11 || 1 || 1 || 4 || 3 || 4 || 15
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|| Lew Alcindor
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a retired American professional basketball player. He is the NBA's all-time leading scorer, with 38,387 points. During his career with the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Lakers from 1969 to 1989, Abdul-Jabbar won six NBA championships and a record six regular season...
, MIL || 18 || 4 || 8 || 2 || 2 || 11 || 4 || 6 || 10
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|| Gus Johnson
Gus Johnson (basketball)
Gus Johnson was a professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association . He spent nine seasons with the Baltimore Bullets, and a final season split between the Phoenix Suns and the Indiana Pacers of the ABA...
, BAL || 17 || 5 || 12 || 0 || 0 || 7 || 1 || 2 || 10
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|| Dave DeBusschere
Dave DeBusschere
David Albert DeBusschere was an American NBA and major league baseball player and coach in the NBA. In 1996, DeBusschere was named as one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history....
, NYK || 14 || 5 || 10 || 0 || 0 || 7 || 2 || 1 || 10
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|| Jimmy Walker
Jimmy Walker (basketball)
James "Jimmy" Walker was an American professional basketball player. A 6'3" guard, he played nine seasons in the NBA as a member of the Detroit Pistons, Houston Rockets, and Kansas City Kings. Walker was a two-time All-Star who scored 11,655 points in his career...
, DET || 14 || 0 || 3 || 1 || 1 || 1 || 0 || 2 || 1
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|| Flynn Robinson
Flynn Robinson
Flynn James Robinson is an American former professional basketball player.A 6'1" guard from the University of Wyoming, Robinson played seven seasons in the National Basketball Association and one season in the now-defunct American Basketball Association...
, MIL || 8 || 3 || 4 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 2 || 2 || 6
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|| Tom Van Arsdale
Tom Van Arsdale
Thomas Arthur Van Arsdale is a former professional basketball player. A graduate of Indianapolis Emmerich Manual High School, the 6'5" guard played collegiately at Indiana University, Van Arsdale was selected by the Detroit Pistons in the 2nd round of the 1965 NBA Draft...
, CIN || 8 || 2 || 7 || 1 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 2 || 5
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|| Totals || 240 || 61 || 119 || 20 || 22 || 60 || 30 || 35 || 142
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Western Conference
{| cellpadding=5|- bgcolor="#dddddd"
|Player, Team|| MIN||FGM||FGA||FTM||FTA||REB||AST||PF||PTS
|-bgcolor="#eeeeee"
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|| Elvin Hayes
Elvin Hayes
Elvin Ernest Hayes is a retired American basketball player and radio analyst for Houston Cougars men's basketball, where he played college basketball...
, SDR || 35 || 9 || 21 || 6 || 12 || 15 || 1 || 1 || 24
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|| Jerry West
Jerry West
Jerry Alan West is a retired American basketball player who played his entire professional career for the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association . His nicknames include "Mr...
, LAL || 31 || 7 || 12 || 8 || 12 || 5 || 5 || 3 || 22
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|| Elgin Baylor
Elgin Baylor
Elgin Gay Baylor is a retired Hall of Fame American basketball player and former NBA general manager who played 13 seasons as a forward for the NBA's Minneapolis Lakers/Los Angeles Lakers....
, LAL || 26 || 2 || 9 || 5 || 7 || 7 || 3 || 3 || 9
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|| Joe Caldwell
Joe Caldwell
Joe Louis Caldwell is a retired American professional basketball player. He spent 6 seasons in the NBA and 5 seasons in the now-defunct ABA, and he was one of the few players to be an All-Star in both leagues...
, ATL || 19 || 5 || 11 || 3 || 4 || 7 || 1 || 2 || 13
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|| Connie Hawkins
Connie Hawkins
Cornelius L. Hawkins is a former National Basketball Association and American Basketball Association player, Harlem Globetrotter and New York City playground legend...
, PHO || 19 || 2 || 4 || 6 || 6 || 4 || 2 || 3 || 10
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|| Lou Hudson
Lou Hudson
Louis Clyde Hudson is a former NBA basketball player.-NBA career:Lou graduated from Dudley High School in Greensboro. After starring at the University of Minnesota, Hudson was selected by the St. Louis Hawks with the 4th pick of the 1966 NBA Draft...
, ATL || 18 || 5 || 12 || 5 || 5 || 1 || 0 || 1 || 15
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|| Lenny Wilkens
Lenny Wilkens
Leonard Randolph "Lenny" Wilkens is a retired American basketball player and coach in the NBA...
, SEA || 17 || 5 || 7 || 2 || 3 || 2 || 4 || 1 || 12
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|| Chet Walker
Chet Walker
Chester "Chet" Walker is a former pro basketball player.Walker played high school basketball for the Benton Harbor High School boys basketball team. He graduated from Bradley University in 1962 as the school's all-time leading scorer. The Bradley Braves won the NIT Championship in 1957 and 1960...
, CHI || 17 || 1 || 3 || 2 || 2 || 2 || 1 || 2 || 4
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|| Dick Van Arsdale
Dick Van Arsdale
Richard Albert Van Arsdale is a former professional basketball player and coach, and a current NBA executive. A graduate of Indianapolis Emmerich Manual High School, the 6'5" guard played collegiately at Indiana University, Van Arsdale was selected by the New York Knickerbockers in the 2nd round...
, PHO || 16 || 4 || 8 || 0 || 0 || 2 || 2 || 0 || 8
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|| Bill Bridges
Bill Bridges (basketball)
William C. "Bill" Bridges is a retired American basketball player.A 6'6" power forward from the University of Kansas, he spent 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association as a member of the St. Louis/Atlanta Hawks, Philadelphia 76ers, Los Angeles Lakers, and Golden State Warriors...
, ATL || 15 || 2 || 2 || 1 || 5 || 4 || 2 || 1 || 5
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|| Jeff Mullins, SFW || 14 || 4 || 6 || 0 || 0 || 1 || 1 || 2 || 8
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|| Bob Rule
Bob Rule
Bobby Frank Rule is a retired American basketball player at center for the NBA's Seattle SuperSonics, Philadelphia 76ers, Cleveland Cavaliers, and briefly, the Milwaukee Bucks....
, SEA || 13 || 2 || 6 || 1 || 1 || 4 || 0 || 2 || 5
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|| Totals || 240 || 48 || 101 || 39 || 57 || 54 || 22 || 21 || 135
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Score by periods
{| cellpadding=5|- bgcolor="#dddddd"
|Score by Periods:|| 1||2||3||4||Final
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|| East || 36 || 35 || 35 || 36 || 142
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|| West || 21 || 38 || 26 || 50 || 135
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- Halftime— East, 71-59
- Third Quarter— East, 106-85
- Officials: Richie PowersRichie PowersRichard F. "Richie" Powers was a professional basketball referee in the National Basketball Association from 1956 to 1979. He worked 25 NBA Finals games, including the triple-overtime Game 5 contest in the 1976 NBA Finals between the Phoenix Suns and the Boston Celtics, considered "The Greatest...
and Jack MaddenJack MaddenJack Madden was a highly regarded referee in the American Basketball Association and the National Basketball Association.Madden's career accomplishments included officiating in the 1970 NBA All-Star Game, 1975 ABA All-Star Game, 1978 NBA Finals, 1979 NBA All-Star Game, 1980 NBA Finals, 1981 NBA... - Attendance: 15,244.