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The first NBA All-Star Game was played on the 2nd of March, 1951, at Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. The Eastern All-Stars defeated the Western All-Stars 111-94, drawing an attendance of 10,094.
Ed Macauley of the Boston Celtics won the first NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player award at the inaugural 1951 game.
The attendance record for an NBA All-Star Game is 108,713, set at the 2010 game held at Cowboys Stadium in Arlington, Texas. The Eastern Conference defeated the Western Conference 141-139, with Dwyane Wade winning MVP.
The Riley Rule prevents a head coach from coaching in consecutive NBA All-Star Games. It was introduced after Los Angeles Lakers coach Pat Riley qualified to coach the Western Conference team eight times in nine seasons between 1982 and 1990. When a coach would otherwise qualify again, the team with the next best conference record sends its coach instead.
North Carolina passed House Bill 2 on the 23rd of March, 2016, a law widely seen as discriminatory against transgender people. The NBA announced on the 21st of July, 2016, that the game would move to New Orleans after North Carolina took no action to repeal or revise the bill.
In 2020, the NBA modified the Elam Ending format by adding 24 points to the score at the end of three quarters to set the target, honoring Kobe Bryant's jersey number. Bryant had died in a helicopter crash the month before the game.