Lee Davis (born October 11, 1945) is a retired basketball player who played for eight seasons in the American Basketball Association.
 A center and forward during his career, he played for five different ABA teams and played in an ABA All-Star Game in 1970.
Cincinnatus "Cincy" Powell (born February 25, 1942 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is a former professional basketball player.
 A 6'7" (2.01 m) forward from the University of Portland, Powell was selected by the St. Louis Hawks in the eighth round of the 1965 NBA Draft.
 He did not make the Hawks' roster, but he would soon blossom while playing for the American Basketball Association's Dallas Chaparrals.
 Powell averaged 18.3 points and nine rebounds in his first season with the Chaparrals, and two years later he represented Dallas in the ABA All-Star Game.
 Powell also spent time with the Kentucky Colonels, Utah Stars, and Virginia Squires, and he ended his ABA career in 1975 with 9,746 total points.
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 1976 ABA All Star Game was the 9th and final American Basketball Association All-Star Game, played at McNichols Arena in Denver, Colorado on January 27, 1976.
 This time, the league abandoned the usual East vs. West format it used from the 1967-68 season onward and instead had the league's first place team at the All Star break face off against a team of ABA All Stars.
 At the All Star break the Denver Nuggets were in first place, which was convenient as the Nuggets had also been selected to host the game in McNichols Arena.
 Kevin Loughery of the New York Nets coached the All-Stars while Larry Brown led the Denver Nuggets.
 This was the second year in a row that Loughery and Brown coached against each other in the ABA All-Star Game.
 (The Nuggets went on to finish the regular season in first place at 60-24 (.714), but after beating the Kentucky Colonels 4 games to 3 in the ABA Semifinals the Nuggets lost in the 1976 ABA Finals to the New York Nets, 4 games to 2.)
Jerry Williams (born January 2, 1979) is an American former semi-professional basketball player and current head basketball coach for the ABA Jacksonville Giants in Jacksonville, FLorida.
 He had a distinguished college and European career, and played in the American Basketball Association (ABA) for thirteen seasons, from 1992–2005.
 He played for the ABA Jacksonville Jam.
 A 6'6" shooting guard/small forward from Cumberland College, he was selected to the 2007 ABA All-Star Game.
Swen Erick Nater (born January 14, 1950) is a retired Dutch professional basketball player, primarily in the American Basketball Association (ABA) and National Basketball Association (NBA).
 He is the only player to have led both the NBA and ABA in rebounding.
 Nater was a two-time ABA All-Star and was the 1974 ABA Rookie of the Year.
 He played college basketball for the UCLA Bruins, winning two National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) titles.
The 1971–72 Kentucky Colonels season was the fifth season of the Colonels in the American Basketball Association.
 The Colonels won 68 games on the season, en route to their first ever Division title, led by Issel and rookie Artis Gilmore, who like Issel signed a 10 years and $1.5 million contract.
 Gilmore won both ABA Rookie of the Year and ABA Most Valuable Player, averaging 23.8 points and 17.8 rebounds per game.
 However the Colonels were upset in 6 games by the New York Nets in the Division Semifinals.
 Notably, the Colonels played the Baltimore Bullets in the 2nd ever exhibition ABA vs. NBA game on September 22, 1971 in Louisville, Kentucky, winning 111-85.
The fifth American Basketball Association All-Star Game was played January 29, 1972 at Freedom Hall in Louisville, Kentucky before an audience at 15,738.
 Joe Mullaney of the Kentucky Colonels coached the East, with LaDell Andersen of the Utah Stars coached the West.
 Dan Issel of the Kentucky Colonels was named MVP.
Daniel Paul Issel (born October 25, 1948) is an American retired Hall of Fame professional basketball player and coach.
 An outstanding collegian at the University of Kentucky, he was twice named an All American en route to a still school record 25.7 points per game.
 The ABA Rookie of the Year in 1971, he was a six-time ABA All-Star and one-time NBA All-Star.
The 1972 ABA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the American Basketball Association's 1971–1972 season.
 The tournament concluded with the Western Division champion Indiana Pacers defeating the Eastern Division champion New York Nets, four games to two in the 1972 ABA Finals.

Question: The MVP of the 1972 ABA All-Star Game was named ABA Rookie of the Year in what year?
Answer: 1971