1971 NBA All-Star Game

	1	2	3	4	Total
East	26	34	23	24	107
West	30	32	20	26	108

Date

January 12, 1971

Arena

San Diego Sports Arena

City

San Diego, California

MVP

Lenny Wilkens

Referees

Attendance

14,378

Network

ABC

Announcers

Chris Schenkel and Jack Twyman

NBA All-Star Game

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The 1971 NBA All-Star Game was played at the San Diego Sports Arena,^[1] in San Diego, California, on January 12, 1971.

The coach for the East team was Red Holzman and the West team was coached by Larry Costello. Officials for the game were Mendy Rudolph and Ed T. Rush. The announced attendance was 14,378. West beat the East 108–107. Lenny Wilkens was named the game's Most valuable player.^[2]^[3]

1 Team rosters
- 1.1 Western Conference
- 1.2 Eastern Conference
2 References

Team rosters

Western Conference

Player, Team	MIN	FGM	FGA	FTM	FTA	REB	AST	PF	PTS
Lew Alcindor, MIL	30	8	16	3	4	14	1	2	19
Jerry Lucas, SFW	29	5	9	2	2	9	4	2	12
Oscar Robertson, MIL	24	2	6	1	3	2	2	3	5
Bob Love, CHI	21	6	12	4	5	4	0	2	16
Lenny Wilkens, SEA	20	8	11	5	5	1	1	1	21
Jerry West, LAL	20	2	4	1	3	1	9	1	5
Elvin Hayes, SDR	19	4	13	2	3	4	2	1	10
Chet Walker, CHI	19	3	9	4	5	3	1	1	10
Dave Bing, DET	19	2	7	0	0	2	2	1	4
Wilt Chamberlain, LAL	18	1	1	0	0	8	5	0	2
Dick Van Arsdale, PHO	12	2	4	0	1	5	3	1	4
Geoff Petrie, POR	5	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0
Jeff Mullins, SFW	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Connie Hawkins, PHO	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Totals	240	43	95	22	31	53	31	15	108

Eastern Conference

Player, Team	MIN	FGM	FGA	FTM	FTA	REB	AST	PF	PTS
Willis Reed, NYK	27	5	16	4	6	13	1	3	14
Walt Frazier, NYK	26	3	9	0	0	6	5	2	6
John Havlicek, BOS	24	6	12	0	2	3	2	3	12
Gus Johnson, BAL	23	5	12	2	2	4	2	3	12
Jo Jo White, BOS	22	5	10	0	0	9	2	2	10
Wes Unseld, BAL	21	4	9	0	0	10	2	2	8
Dave DeBusschere, NYK	19	4	7	0	0	7	3	3	8
Billy Cunningham, PHI	19	2	8	1	2	4	3	1	5
Earl Monroe, BAL	18	3	9	0	0	5	2	3	6
Lou Hudson, ATL	17	6	13	2	3	3	1	3	14
Tom Van Arsdale, CIN	11	4	8	0	2	2	1	1	8
Johnny Green, CIN	7	2	3	0	1	2	0	1	4
Bob Kauffman, BUF	4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
John Johnson, CLE	2	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
Totals	240	49	118	9	18	68	25	27	107

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