FIBA Europe Men's Player of the Year Award

The FIBA Europe Men's Player of the Year Award is an annual official FIBA Europe award inaugurated in the year 2005, with awards given to men's basketball players.[1] The winner is a men's basketball player that has European citizenship, and whose performances with his sports club and/or national team throughout the year have reached the highest level of excellence. All men's European players, regardless of where they play in the world, qualify for the award, including NBA players. Players do not have to play in any FIBA competitions at all in order to qualify.

The winner receives the prize after winning a vote of both the fans and a panel of basketball experts, media members, and coaches from 25 different countries. Consequently, the legitimacy of the men's award is somewhat higher than Superbasket magazine's old Mister Europa Award and Gazzetta dello Sport's Euroscar Award, which do not include the fan vote. That being specified, the importance of those latter two awards rely on their tradition, as their inception occurred in the years 1976 and 1979 respectively. All in all, the laureates are the same on all three lists in the great majority of cases, all of them representing the biggest European basketball stars since the mid-1970s.

Winners

If a winner played for more than one club team in the calendar year of his award, all teams are listed in chronological order.

FIBA Europe Men's Players of the Year

Year Men's Players of the Year Club(s)
2005
Germany Dirk Nowitzki United States Dallas Mavericks
2006
Greece Theo Papaloukas Russia CSKA Moscow
2007
Russia Andrei Kirilenko United States Utah Jazz
2008
Spain Pau Gasol United States Memphis Grizzlies & United States Los Angeles Lakers
2009
Spain Pau Gasol (2) United States Los Angeles Lakers
2010
Serbia Miloš Teodosić Greece Olympiacos
2011
Germany Dirk Nowitzki (2) United States Dallas Mavericks
2012
Russia Andrei Kirilenko (2) Russia CSKA Moscow & United States Minnesota Timberwolves
2013
France Tony Parker United States San Antonio Spurs
2014
France Tony Parker (2) United States San Antonio Spurs

See also

References

  1. ↑ ALL WINNERS.

External links

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