Question: What is the North American women's basketball league in which includes an All-Star game starting in 1999?
Context: 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 1951 NBA All-Star Game was an exhibition basketball game played on March 2, 1951, at Boston Garden in Boston, Massachusetts, home of the Boston Celtics.  The game was the first edition of the National Basketball Association (NBA) All-Star Game and was played during the 1950–51 NBA season.  The idea of holding an All-Star Game was conceived during a meeting between NBA President Maurice Podoloff, NBA publicity director Haskell Cohen and Boston Celtics owner Walter A. Brown.  At that time, the basketball world had just been stunned by the college basketball point-shaving scandal.  In order to regain public attention to the league, Cohen suggested the league to host an exhibition game featuring the league's best players, similar to the Major League Baseball's All-Star Game.  Although most people, including Podoloff, were pessimistic about the idea, Brown remained confident that it would be a success.  He even offered to host the game and to cover all the expenses or potential losses incurred from the game.  The Eastern All-Stars team defeated the Western All-Stars team 111–94.  Boston Celtics' Ed Macauley was named as the first NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award.  The game became a success, drawing an attendance of 10,094, much higher than that season's average attendance of 3,500. The BBL All-Star Game is the annual All-Star Game of the German first division basketball league, the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL).  The event is based on the original NBA concept, and includes a slam dunk contest and a three-point shootout.  Since 2012, the All-Star Game is played between "Team National" (domestic players) and "Team International" (foreign players). The NBL Canada All-Star Game is an exhibition game hosted by the National Basketball League of Canada (NBL), currently matching a group of players from the Central Division against a group from the Atlantic Division.  The first All-Star game took place at the Halifax Metro Centre in Halifax, Nova Scotia on April 1, 2012.  In the inaugural game, the format did not take divisions into account and randomly divided players under captains Joey Haywood and Eddie Smith.  As of 2014, the players are decided on the coaches' votes.  No All-Star game took place for the 2014–15 NBL Canada season.  The game takes place alongside multiple other competitions, together known as All-Star Weekend.  These competitions include the Three-Point Long Distance Shootout and the Slam Dunk Championship.  Neither event took place in 2015. The Women's National Basketball Association All-Star Game Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) award given to the player voted best of the annual All-Star Game.  The all-star game began during the 1999 WNBA season, the third year of the WNBA.  There was no game held in 2004, 2008, 2010, 2012, or 2016. The Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) is the women's professional basketball league in North America.  It is currently composed of twelve teams. The ÖBL All-Star Game – or Admiral Basketball League (ABL) All-Star Game is a yearly event held by the Österreichische Basketball Bundesliga.  It yearly matches the league's star players from Europe against their counterparts from the world.  It is the featured event of ÖBL All-Star Day.  The All-Star game was first staged at the FZZ Happyland in Klosterneuburg in 1995. The ECHL All-Star Game is an exhibition ice hockey game that traditionally marks the midway point of the ECHL's regular season, with many of the league's star players playing against each other.  The starting lineup for the two teams, including the starting goaltender, is voted on by the coaches, players, and other league representatives.  The coaches for the two All-Star Game teams are typically the head coaches of the teams that, at the time of the All-Star Game roster announcements, are leading their respective conferences in point percentage (i.e. fraction of points obtained out of total possible points).  The All-Star Game is preceded by the "ECHL All-Star Skills Competition", a competition showing the various talents of the all-stars. The 2014 NBL Canada All-Star Game was the third edition of the National Basketball League of Canada All-Star Game, an exhibition basketball game played on April 20, 2014 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.  It was played between the top players from both of the league's divisions, the Central and Atlantic, the second time the event was in such a format.  The All-Star Game took place in Eastlink Centre, the home court of the Island Storm.  The players who competed were decided by votes from NBL coaches.  Antonio Ballard, who played with the Storm, was named Most Valuable Player after putting up 39 points, 10 rebounds, and 6 assists. The East–West All-Star Game was an annual all-star game for Negro league baseball players.  The game was the brainchild of Gus Greenlee, owner of the Pittsburgh Crawfords.  In 1933 he decided to match the Major League Baseball All-Star Game with Negro league players.  Newspaper balloting was set up to allow the fans to choose the starting lineups for that first game, a tradition that continued through the series' end in 1962.  Unlike the white All-Star game which is played near the middle of the season, the Negro All-Star game was held toward the end of the season.
Answer: Women's National Basketball Association