2002: Team International/Sacramento

• Earvin “Magic” Johnson and Moses Malone, two of the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players, led a star-studded lineup of NBA and WNBA players, NBA legends and celebrities competing in the inaugural All-Star Hoop-It-Up.
• These were the 4 teams:

HOUSTON TEAM:

• Cuttino Mobley – Houston Rockets Guard.
• Tina Thompson – Houston Comets Forward.
• Kenny Smith – Houston Rockets championship teams (1993–94 and 1994–95).
• Jamie Foxx – Actor.

INTERNATIONAL/SACRAMENTO TEAM

• Hedo Turkoglu – Sacramento Kings Forward (Turkey).
• Ticha Penicheiro – Sacramento Monarchs Guard(Portugal).
• Sarunas Marciulionis – Former NBA Player (Lithuania).
• Tom Cavanagh – Star of NBC’s Ed (Canada).

LOS ANGELES TEAM:

• Derek Fisher – Los Angeles Lakers guard.
• Lisa Leslie – Los Angeles Sparks center.
• Magic Johnson – Los Angeles Lakers guard, winner of 5 championships (1980, ’82, ’85, 87, ’88).
• Brian McKnight – Singer.

PHILADELPHIA TEAM:

• Aaron McKie – Philadelphia Sixers guard.
• Dawn Staley – WNBA All-Star.
• Moses Malone – Philadelphia Sixers championship team (1982–83).
• Justin Timberlake – ‘NSYNC.

SEMIFINALS

• PHILADELPHIA 16 (Malone 6, Timberlake 2, Snow 8)
• HOUSTON 8 (Smith 2, Mobley 4, Thompson 2)

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• LOS ANGELES 13 (Magic 4, Fisher 2, Leslie 5, McKnight 2)
  
• INTERNATIONAL/SACRAMENTO 25 (Marciulionis 15, Turkoglu 6, Penichero 2, Cavanagh 2)

FINAL

• PHILADELPHIA 9 (Malone 5, Snow 4)
  INTERNATIONAL/SACRAMENTO 12 (Marciulionis 3, Turkoglu 7, Cavanagh 2)

 

• Marciulionis impressed in the semifinals with 15 points (including 4 treys).
• Malone inside, and Snow hitting shots from outside were too much for Houston.
• In the final, players were very nervous missing a lot of shots. The game finished tied 9-9, and Turkoglu hit the winner 3 pointer in the “sudden death”.