Anthony Marshon Davis Jr. (born March 11, 1993) is an American professional basketball player for the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 He plays the power forward and center positions.
 Davis was selected first overall in the 2012 NBA draft by New Orleans, is a four-time NBA All-Star, and has been named to two All-NBA First Teams.
 He also earned a gold medal playing with Team USA at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
The New Orleans Pelicans are an American professional basketball team based in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 They play in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The team was born out of the original Hornets' relocation to New Orleans in 2002.
 The team has had three names since its inception; it was called the New Orleans Hornets (2002–2005; 2007–2013), the New Orleans / Oklahoma City Hornets (2005–2007), and the New Orleans Pelicans (2013–present).
 The Pelicans have never been to the NBA Finals since its inception.
 The team has played their home games at the New Orleans Arena since 2002.
 The Pelicans are owned by Tom Benson, with Dell Demps as their general manager.
The 2014 NBA All Star Game was an exhibition basketball game that took place on February 16, 2014, at Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, home of the New Orleans Pelicans.
 The game was the 63rd edition of the National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Game and was played during the 2013–14 NBA season.
 The Pelicans (the name was changed by new team owner Tom Benson for the 2013-14 season) were awarded the All-Star Game in an announcement by commissioner David Stern on April 16, 2012.
 It was the second time that New Orleans had hosted the All-Star game; the city had previously hosted the event in 2008, also at the Smoothie King Center (then known as New Orleans Arena).
The National Basketball Association All-Star Game Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given to the player(s) voted best of the annual All-Star Game.
 The award was established in 1953 when NBA officials decided to designate an MVP for each year's game.
 The league also re-honored players from the previous two All-Star Games.
 Ed Macauley and Paul Arizin were selected as the 1951 and 1952 MVP winners respectively.
 The voting is conducted by a panel of media members, who cast their vote after the conclusion of the game.
 The player(s) with the most votes or ties for the most votes wins the award.
 No All-Star Game MVP was named in 1999 since the game was canceled due to the league's lockout.
 s of 2017 , the most recent recipient is New Orleans Pelicans forward Anthony Davis.
This article is about the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association.
 The New Orleans Pelicans are an official team in the National Basketball Association(NBA).
 Until the conclusion of the Pelicans' 2012–2013 regular season the team was named the New Orleans Hornets.
 The name change came along with the purchase of the team by its new owner, Tom Benson.
 Early on in the purchasing process, Benson made it clear that he intended to change the name to something more "local".
 Inspiration for the name change is given to Louisiana's state bird, the brown pelican.
 The Pelicans have an overall franchise record of 498-552, along with six playoff qualifications.
 Their achievements include one playoff series victory and one division title.
 In recent years, the Pelicans have held the names of some of the NBA's brightest rising stars on its roster.
The New Orleans Pelicans are a professional basketball team based in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 They are members of the Southwest Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The franchise began play during the 2002–03 NBA season as the New Orleans Hornets following the relocation of the Charlotte Hornets, based in Charlotte, North Carolina.
 After three seasons in New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina forced the franchise to temporarily relocate to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, where they spent two seasons as the New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets.
 The Hornets returned to New Orleans full-time for the 2007–08 season.
 The team changed its name to the New Orleans Pelicans at the conclusion of the 2012–13 season.
The 2017 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game that was played on February 19, 2017 in New Orleans, Louisiana at the Smoothie King Center.
 It was the 66th edition of the event.
 The West won the game 192-182.
 The MVP of the game was Anthony Davis, who scored 52 points, the most ever scored by a player in an All-Star Game.
 It was initially planned to be held at Spectrum Center in Charlotte, home of the Charlotte Hornets.
 If the game had remained in Charlotte, it would have been the second time that Charlotte hosted the All-Star Game.
 The city previously hosted in 1991 at the now-demolished Charlotte Coliseum.
The 1998 NBA All-Star Game was the 48th edition of the North American National Basketball Association All-Star Game.
 The event was held at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
 The East won the game 135–114.
 This game was the All-Star Game debut of Kobe Bryant, the youngest all-star in NBA history at 19 years of age, and rookie Tim Duncan.
 Bryant had a team-high 18 points.
 Michael Jordan earned MVP honors, scoring 23 points, grabbing 6 rebounds, and dishing out 8 assists despite having the flu.
 This was Jordan's third MVP award.The Game featured four all-stars from the Los Angeles Lakers.
 The Western Conference was coached by George Karl from the Seattle SuperSonics and the Eastern Conference was coached by Larry Bird of the Indiana Pacers.
 This marks the only All-Star game to feature both Kobe Bryant, who was the youngest player in NBA history to be in the all-star game and Michael Jordan in which Jordan was with the Chicago Bulls.
 Jordan came out of retirement one final time in 2001 and played two more seasons (and selected to the All-Star team both years) for the Washington Wizards.
 Grant Hill and Michael Jordan shot the best field goal percentages this game when comparing players who shot ten or more shots.
 Grant Hill was 7/11 from the field and he knocked down a three (.636%).
 Michael Jordan was 10/18 from the field and he also knocked down one three (.556%).
The 1997 NBA All-Star Game was the 47th edition of the All-Star Game and commemorated the 50th anniversary of NBA.
 The game was played on February 9, 1997, at Gund Arena (now known as Quicken Loans Arena) in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
 The winner of the MVP award was Glen Rice of the Charlotte Hornets who played 25 minutes and scored 26 points while breaking two records in the process, 20 points in the third quarter and 24 points in the second half.
 Rice's 20 points in the period broke Hal Greer's record (19), set in 1968.
 Rice's 24 points in a half surpassed the previous mark of 23, owned by Wilt Chamberlain and Tom Chambers.
 Michael Jordan's 14 points, 11 rebounds, and 11 assists were the first and, until the 2011 NBA All-Star Game, the only triple-double in NBA All-Star Game history (LeBron James (2011), Dwyane Wade (2012), and Kevin Durant (2017) have also achieved this).
 Five players (Charles Barkley, Alonzo Mourning, Patrick Ewing, Clyde Drexler, Shaquille O’Neal) who were voted or selected for the team opted out due to injury, opening the doors for the annually neglected and the new stars—Joe Dumars, Detlef Schrempf, Chris Webber, Chris Gatling and 20-year-old second-year man Kevin Garnett took their spots.
The 2016–17 NBA season was the 71st season of the National Basketball Association.
 The regular season began on October 25, 2016, with the 2016 NBA champion Cleveland Cavaliers hosting a game against the New York Knicks.
 Christmas Day games were played on Sunday December 25, 2016.
 The 2017 NBA All-Star Game was played at the Smoothie King Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, on February 19, 2017, with the West defeating the East 192–182.
 Anthony Davis of the New Orleans Pelicans was named the All Star Game MVP after breaking Wilt Chamberlain's record by scoring 52 points in the All Star Game.
 The original host of the game, Charlotte's Spectrum Center, was removed as the host on July 21, 2016 due to the league's opposition against North Carolina's Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act.
 The regular season ended on April 12, 2017, and the playoffs began on April 15, 2017 and ended on June 12, 2017, with the Golden State Warriors going 16-1 in the playoffs and beating the Cleveland Cavaliers in five games during their third consecutive matchup in the NBA Finals.

Question: What New Orleans Pelicans player born in 1993 won the 2017 NBA All-Star Game MVP award?
Answer: Anthony Davis