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Euroleague Awards since the 1987-88 season, when the Turkish Airlines Euroleague Final Four
Euroleague Final Four
The Euroleague Final Four is the final four format championship of the Euroleague professional club basketball competition. The Euroleague used the final four format for the first time during the 1987-88 season. It is known as the Turkish Airlines Euroleague Final Four for sponsorship reasons...

 era began, and since the 2000-01 basketball season, when ULEB
ULEB
ULEB was founded in 1991, with the aim to help in the cooperation and development of European professional club basketball leagues...

 and FIBA Europe
FIBA Europe
FIBA Europe is a zone within the International Basketball Federation which includes all 49 national European basketball federations.-Division A:-Division B: -Division C:...

 first split up the competition.

Euroleague Final Four MVP

The Turkish Airlines Euroleague Final Four MVP award is the MVP award for the final two games of the Euroleague season. The award began in the 1987-88 season, when the first Final Four was held. It is the originating MVP award, intended as the "most valuable player" on the best team award and is generally considered the most prestigious and important individual award given in European basketball.

Toni Kukoč of Jugoplastika Split (and after Pop 84 Split) has won the award three times, two of them consecutive. Dejan Bodiroga has also won the award two consecutive times, though with two different teams (Panathinaikos and Barcelona).
  • 1987-88   Bob McAdoo (Tracer Milano)
  • 1988-89   Dino Rađa (Jugoplastika Split)
  • 1989-90   Toni Kukoč
    Toni Kukoc
    Toni Kukoč is a retired Croatian professional basketball player. He was renowned for his versatility and passing ability; although his natural position was small forward, he played all five positions on the court with prowess and demonstrated court vision and an outside shooting touch that were...

     (Jugoplastika Split)
  • 1990-91   Toni Kukoč
    Toni Kukoc
    Toni Kukoč is a retired Croatian professional basketball player. He was renowned for his versatility and passing ability; although his natural position was small forward, he played all five positions on the court with prowess and demonstrated court vision and an outside shooting touch that were...

     (Pop 84 Split)
  • 1991-92   Predrag Danilović
    Predrag Danilovic
    Predrag "Saša" Danilović , usually referred to in English as Sasha Danilovic , is a retired professional basketball player, considered one of the best European shooting guards during the 1990s...

     (Partizan)
  • 1992-93   Toni Kukoč
    Toni Kukoc
    Toni Kukoč is a retired Croatian professional basketball player. He was renowned for his versatility and passing ability; although his natural position was small forward, he played all five positions on the court with prowess and demonstrated court vision and an outside shooting touch that were...

     (Benetton)
  • 1993-94 Žarko Paspalj
    Žarko Paspalj
    Žarko Paspalj is a retired Serbian professional basketball player and current sports administrator...

     (Olympiacos)
  • 1994-95   Arvydas Sabonis
    Arvydas Sabonis
    Arvydas Romas Sabonis is a retired Lithuanian professional basketball player and a businessman. He was an eight-time European Player of the Year, winning the Euroscar Award six times, and the Mr...

     (Real Madrid)
  • 1995-96   Dominique Wilkins
    Dominique Wilkins
    Jacques Dominique Wilkins is a retired American professional basketball player who primarily played for the Atlanta Hawks of the NBA...

     (Panathinaikos)
  • 1996-97   David Rivers
    David Rivers
    David Lee Rivers is a retired American basketball player. An explosive point guard, he reached star status in the Euroleague, mostly playing for Olympiacos Piraeus under coach Dusan Ivkovic....

     (Olympiacos)
  • 1997-98 Zoran Savić
    Zoran Savic
    Zoran Savić is a retired Serbian professional basketball player. The 208 cm forward played in various European nations.-Career:...

     (Kinder)
  • 1998-99   Tyus Edney
    Tyus Edney
    Tyus Dwayne Edney is an American professional basketball player. A point guard for UCLA from 1991–1995, Edney led the Bruins to the 1995 NCAA National Championship. He also led Žalgiris Kaunas to the 1999 Euroleague title...

     (Zalgiris)
  • 1999-00 Željko Rebrača
    Željko Rebraca
    Željko Rebrača is a retired Serbian professional basketball player. Formerly in the NBA, he finished his career with the Spanish ACB League team Pamesa Valencia.-Europe:He began his professional career in 1991 with KK Partizan...

     (Panathinaikos)
  • 2000-01   Ariel McDonald
    Ariel McDonald
    Ariel Rene McDonald is an American-Slovenian basketball player, playing the point guard position for the Italian club Montepaschi Siena...

     (Maccabi) (FIBA)
  • 2000-01   Manu Ginóbili
    Manu Ginobili
    Emanuel David "Manu" Ginóbili is an Argentine professional basketball player. Coming from a family of professional basketball players, he is a member of the Argentine men's national basketball team and the San Antonio Spurs in the National Basketball Association .Ginóbili spent the early part of...

     (Kinder) (ULEB)
  • 2001-02 Dejan Bodiroga
    Dejan Bodiroga
    Dejan Bodiroga is a retired Serbian professional basketball player.He is offten considered as one of the best players who did not play in the NBA....

     (Panathinaikos)
  • 2002-03 Dejan Bodiroga
    Dejan Bodiroga
    Dejan Bodiroga is a retired Serbian professional basketball player.He is offten considered as one of the best players who did not play in the NBA....

     (Barcelona)
  • 2003-04   Anthony Parker
    Anthony Parker
    Anthony Michael Parker is an American professional basketball player who last played with the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association . After graduating from Bradley University with a major in liberal arts, he entered the 1997 NBA Draft and played briefly in the NBA before...

     (Maccabi)
  • 2004-05   Šarūnas Jasikevičius
    Šarunas Jasikevicius
    Šarūnas Jasikevičius is a Lithuanian professional basketball player who plays for Panathinaikos BC. He is a member of the Lithuanian national team, and plays the point guard position.-Early years:...

     (Maccabi)
  • 2005-06   Theo Papaloukas (CSKA)
  • 2006-07   Dimitris Diamantidis
    Dimitris Diamantidis
    Dimitris Diamantidis is a Greek professional basketball player. Standing at 1.98 m , Diamantidis mainly plays at the point guard position, but he also has the ability to play as a shooting guard, as well as to assume the small forward position, being utilized as a point forward...

     (Panathinaikos)
  • 2007-08   Trajan Langdon
    Trajan Langdon
    Trajan Shaka Langdon is a retired American professional basketball player. A 210 lb. shooting guard, he gained fame in the U.S. while playing college basketball at Duke University with the Duke Blue Devils.-Biography:...

     (CSKA)
  • 2008-09   Vassilis Spanoulis
    Vassilis Spanoulis
    Vassilis Spanoulis is a Greek professional basketball player who plays for the Greek League and Euroleague club Olympiacos Piraeus. A 6 ft 4 in tall guard, Spanoulis first played for GS Larissa and enjoyed a highly successful career start, winning the Greek League's award for Best Young...

     (Panathinaikos)
  • 2009-10   Juan Carlos Navarro
    Juan Carlos Navarro (basketball)
    Juan Carlos Navarro Feijoo , nicknamed "La Bomba" , is a Spanish professional basketball player...

     (Barcelona)
  • 2010-11   Dimitris Diamantidis
    Dimitris Diamantidis
    Dimitris Diamantidis is a Greek professional basketball player. Standing at 1.98 m , Diamantidis mainly plays at the point guard position, but he also has the ability to play as a shooting guard, as well as to assume the small forward position, being utilized as a point forward...

     (Panathinaikos)

  • Euroleague Regular Season MVP

    The Euroleague regular season MVP award was the MVP award for the regular season stage of the season. It began in the 2000-01 season and it was discontinued after the 2003-04 season. It was replaced by the new Euroleague MVP award beginning in the 2004-05 season.
    • 2000-01   Nate Huffman
      Nate Huffman
      Nathaniel Thomas Huffman is a 7'1" American former professional basketball player, who played most of his career outside of the United States with Maccabi Tel Aviv.-High school and college career:...

       (Maccabi) (FIBA)
    • 2000-01 Dejan Tomašević
      Dejan Tomaševic
      Dejan Tomašević is a former Serbian professional basketball player. He is a 2.08 m tall center.He played with Borac Čačak, Red Star Belgrade, Partizan Belgrade, Budućnost Podgorica, TAU Cerámica and Pamesa Valencia, Panathinaikos and PAOK, which he joined in September 2008.-Pro career:Tomašević...

       (Buducnost) (ULEB)
    • 2001-02   Mirsad Türkcan (CSKA)
    • 2002-03   Joseph Blair
      Joseph Blair
      Joseph Blair is a retired American professional basketball player. He is 2.10 m tall and he weighs 120 kg . He played as a forward-center...

       (Ulker)
    • 2003-04   Arvydas Sabonis
      Arvydas Sabonis
      Arvydas Romas Sabonis is a retired Lithuanian professional basketball player and a businessman. He was an eight-time European Player of the Year, winning the Euroscar Award six times, and the Mr...

       (Zalgiris)

    Euroleague Top 16 MVP

    The Euroleague Top 16 MVP award was the MVP award for the Top 16 stage of the season. It began in the 2001-02 season and it was discontinued after the 2003-04 season. It was replaced by the new Euroleague MVP award beginning in the 2004-05 season.
    • 2001-02 Dejan Bodiroga
      Dejan Bodiroga
      Dejan Bodiroga is a retired Serbian professional basketball player.He is offten considered as one of the best players who did not play in the NBA....

       (Panathinaikos)
    • 2002-03   Mirsad Türkcan (Montepaschi)
    • 2003-04   Arvydas Sabonis
      Arvydas Sabonis
      Arvydas Romas Sabonis is a retired Lithuanian professional basketball player and a businessman. He was an eight-time European Player of the Year, winning the Euroscar Award six times, and the Mr...

       (Zalgiris)

    Euroleague MVP

    The Euroleague MVP award began in the 2004-05 season. It replaced both the Euroleague Regular Season MVP and Euroleague Top 16 MVP awards. The Euroleague MVP award combined the regular season and Top 16 awards together into a new award that is for the entire Euroleague season, the regular season, Top 16, and playoffs, up until the Final Four. The award is analogous to the NBA regular season MVP award.
    • 2004-05   Anthony Parker
      Anthony Parker
      Anthony Michael Parker is an American professional basketball player who last played with the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association . After graduating from Bradley University with a major in liberal arts, he entered the 1997 NBA Draft and played briefly in the NBA before...

       (Maccabi)
    • 2005-06   Anthony Parker
      Anthony Parker
      Anthony Michael Parker is an American professional basketball player who last played with the Cleveland Cavaliers of the National Basketball Association . After graduating from Bradley University with a major in liberal arts, he entered the 1997 NBA Draft and played briefly in the NBA before...

       (Maccabi)
    • 2006-07   Theo Papaloukas (CSKA)
    • 2007-08   Ramūnas Šiškauskas
      Ramunas Šiškauskas
      Ramūnas Šiškauskas in height and he weighs 220 lbs. . He is currently with CSKA Moscow.-Player profile:Šiškauskas is a physical forward who can easily play, both on offense and defense, at the guard positions, on the wing, and also in the paint...

       (CSKA)
    • 2008-09   Juan Carlos Navarro
      Juan Carlos Navarro (basketball)
      Juan Carlos Navarro Feijoo , nicknamed "La Bomba" , is a Spanish professional basketball player...

       (Barcelona)
    • 2009-10   Miloš Teodosić
      Miloš Teodosic
      Miloš Teodosić is a professional basketball player from Serbia. He is 1.96 m tall. He can play at either the point guard or shooting guard position. He is currently a member of the pro club CSKA Moscow.-Player profile:He can play at either guard position...

       (Olympiacos)
    • 2010-11   Dimitris Diamantidis
      Dimitris Diamantidis
      Dimitris Diamantidis is a Greek professional basketball player. Standing at 1.98 m , Diamantidis mainly plays at the point guard position, but he also has the ability to play as a shooting guard, as well as to assume the small forward position, being utilized as a point forward...

       (Panathinaikos)

    Euroleague MVP of the Month

    The Euroleague MVP of the Month award is the award for the league's best player for each month of the season. The award began in the 2004-05 season.

    Euroleague MVP of the Week

    The Euroleague MVP of the Week award is the award for the league's best player for each week of the season. The award began in the 2000-01 season.

    Alphonso Ford Trophy

    The Euroleague Alphonso Ford Trophy is the award given to the leading scorer of the Euroleague full season. It is named in honor of Alphonso Ford
    Alphonso Ford
    Alphonso Gene Ford was an American professional basketball player. A 1.93 m tall shooting guard, he was one of the greatest scorers in college basketball history. Ford played professionally in both the NBA and the Euroleague, where he confirmed his tremendous scoring ability and became a...

    . The award began with the 2004-05 season.
    • 2004-05   Charles Smith
      Charles Cornelius Smith
      Charles Cornelius Smith is an American professional basketball player...

       (Scavolini Pesaro)
    • 2005-06   Drew Nicholas
      Drew Nicholas
      #REDIRECT Target page nameAndrew "Drew" Lawrence Nicholas is an American professional basketball player...

       (Benetton)
    • 2006-07   Igor Rakočević
      Igor Rakocevic
      Igor Rakočević is a Serbian professional basketball player who plays for Montepaschi Siena. He can play at both the point guard and shooting guard positions. He is 1.94 m tall...

       (Baskonia)
    • 2007-08   Marc Salyers
      Marc Salyers
      Marc Douglas Salyers is a professional basketball player. He is a small forward-power forward.-College career:Salyers played college basketball at Samford University with the Samford Bulldogs from 1997–01....

       (Roanne)
    • 2008-09   Igor Rakočević
      Igor Rakocevic
      Igor Rakočević is a Serbian professional basketball player who plays for Montepaschi Siena. He can play at both the point guard and shooting guard positions. He is 1.94 m tall...

       (Baskonia)
    • 2009-10   Linas Kleiza
      Linas Kleiza
      Linas Kleiza is a Lithuanian professional basketball player with the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association. He is also a member of the Lithuanian national team. He can play either forward position. Kleiza signed a four year, $18.8 million contract prior to the 2010–11 NBA...

       (Olympiacos)
    • 2010-11   Igor Rakočević
      Igor Rakocevic
      Igor Rakočević is a Serbian professional basketball player who plays for Montepaschi Siena. He can play at both the point guard and shooting guard positions. He is 1.94 m tall...

       (Efes Pilsen)

    Euroleague Best Defender

    The Euroleague Best Defender award is the award for the league's best defensive player throughout the season up until the Final Four. The award began in the 2004-05 season. Dimitris Diamantidis of Panathinaikos won the award five consecutive times, from 2004 to 2009.
    • 2004-05   Dimitris Diamantidis
      Dimitris Diamantidis
      Dimitris Diamantidis is a Greek professional basketball player. Standing at 1.98 m , Diamantidis mainly plays at the point guard position, but he also has the ability to play as a shooting guard, as well as to assume the small forward position, being utilized as a point forward...

       (Panathinaikos)
    • 2005-06   Dimitris Diamantidis
      Dimitris Diamantidis
      Dimitris Diamantidis is a Greek professional basketball player. Standing at 1.98 m , Diamantidis mainly plays at the point guard position, but he also has the ability to play as a shooting guard, as well as to assume the small forward position, being utilized as a point forward...

       (Panathinaikos)
    • 2006-07   Dimitris Diamantidis
      Dimitris Diamantidis
      Dimitris Diamantidis is a Greek professional basketball player. Standing at 1.98 m , Diamantidis mainly plays at the point guard position, but he also has the ability to play as a shooting guard, as well as to assume the small forward position, being utilized as a point forward...

       (Panathinaikos)
    • 2007-08   Dimitris Diamantidis
      Dimitris Diamantidis
      Dimitris Diamantidis is a Greek professional basketball player. Standing at 1.98 m , Diamantidis mainly plays at the point guard position, but he also has the ability to play as a shooting guard, as well as to assume the small forward position, being utilized as a point forward...

       (Panathinaikos)
    • 2008-09   Dimitris Diamantidis
      Dimitris Diamantidis
      Dimitris Diamantidis is a Greek professional basketball player. Standing at 1.98 m , Diamantidis mainly plays at the point guard position, but he also has the ability to play as a shooting guard, as well as to assume the small forward position, being utilized as a point forward...

       (Panathinaikos)
    • 2009-10   Viktor Khryapa
      Viktor Khryapa
      Viktor Vladimirovich Khryapa is a Russian professional basketball player.-Pro career:Khryapa played for Khimik Engels in 1999-00, and for Avtodor Saratov in 2000-02...

       (CSKA)
    • 2010-11   Dimitris Diamantidis
      Dimitris Diamantidis
      Dimitris Diamantidis is a Greek professional basketball player. Standing at 1.98 m , Diamantidis mainly plays at the point guard position, but he also has the ability to play as a shooting guard, as well as to assume the small forward position, being utilized as a point forward...

       (Panathinaikos)

    Euroleague Rising Star

    The Euroleague Rising Star award is the award for the league's best player aged 22 and under throughout the season up until the Final Four. The award began in the 2004-05 season.
    • 2004-05   Erazem Lorbek
      Erazem Lorbek
      Erazem Lorbek is a Slovenian professional basketball player. He is a forward-center who currently plays with the Liga ACB club FC Barcelona.-Pro career:...

       (Climamio)
    • 2005-06   Andrea Bargnani
      Andrea Bargnani
      Andrea Bargnani , nicknamed "Il Mago" , is an Italian professional basketball player with the Toronto Raptors of the National Basketball Association. He was selected first overall in the 2006 NBA Draft. He is a power forward/center standing at 213 cm and weighing 113.4 kg...

       (Benetton)
    • 2006-07   Rudy Fernández
      Rudy Fernández (basketball)
      Rodolfo "Rudy" Fernández y Farrés is a Spanish professional basketball player. He is a 6'6" tall shooting guard/small forward who is currently signed to the NBA's Dallas Mavericks, though he will play for Real Madrid until the current NBA lockout ends...

       (DKV Joventut)
    • 2007-08   Danilo Gallinari
      Danilo Gallinari
      Danilo Gallinari is an Italian professional basketball player with Olimpia Milano of the Italian basketball league. He is also under contract with the Denver Nuggets of the NBA, and is expected to return to that team when the 2011 NBA lockout ends. He is 2.08 m in height and 102.1 kg in...

       (Olimpia Milano)
    • 2008-09   Novica Veličković
      Novica Velickovic
      Novica Veličković is a Serbian professional basketball player. He plays at the power forward position, but he can also play at small forward. He is 205 cm tall and he weighs 109 kg...

       (Partizan Belgrade)
    • 2009-10   Ricky Rubio
      Ricky Rubio
      Ricard "Ricky" Rubio Vives is a Spanish professional basketball player for the Minnesota Timberwolves of the National Basketball Association . Rubio became the youngest player ever to play in the Spanish ACB League on October 15, 2005, at age 14...

       (Barcelona)
    • 2010-11   Nikola Mirotić
      Nikola Mirotić
      Nikola Mirotić is a naturalized Spanish professional basketball player of Montenegrin origin. He is a 2.09 m tall power forward. He plays for Real Madrid.-Pro career:Mirotić began his professional career with the Spanish ACB League club Real Madrid...

       (Real Madrid)

    Euroleague Coach of the Year Award

    The most successful head coach of the season wins the Alexander Gomelsky
    Alexander Gomelsky
    Alexander Yakovlevich Gomelsky was a great Soviet and Russian basketball coach.Gomelsky was Jewish. He began his coaching career in 1948 in Leningrad with LGS Spartak...

     trophy in recognition of his achievements after the end of the Euroleague season. The award was established in 2005.

    Euroleague Club Executive of the Year Award

    The best CEO of the Euroleague season wins the award established in 2005.

    50 Greatest Euroleague Contributors

    The 50 Greatest Contributors
    50 Greatest Euroleague Contributors
    The 50 Greatest Contributors in Euroleague History were chosen on February 3, 2008, in Madrid, Spain. The occasion was the fiftieth anniversary since the founding of the FIBA European Champions Cup, officially recognized as the predecessor to today's Euroleague.The list was made up of the...

     in Euroleague history list was chosen on February 3, 2008, and was made up of the Euroleague's 35 all-time greatest players, 10 greatest coaches, and 5 greatest referees. It also included other nominees for each category, all together, 105 players, 20 coaches, and 12 referees.

    ULEB Euroleague 2001–10 All-Decade Team

    The ULEB Euroleague 2001-10 All-Decade Team consists of basketball players named to the Euroleague's All-Decade Team for the first 10 years of the ULEB
    ULEB
    ULEB was founded in 1991, with the aim to help in the cooperation and development of European professional club basketball leagues...

     competition from 2001-10.

    There were 50 players nominated for the All-Decade Team. Voting included votes from selected media members and fans.

    All-Euroleague Team

    Five players are chosen for each of the two teams (the first and second teams). Each team consists of one point guard
    Point guard
    Point guard , also called the play maker or "the ball-handler", is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. A point guard has perhaps the most specialized role of any position – essentially, he is expected to run the team's offense by controlling the ball and making sure that...

    , two wing players (shooting guard
    Shooting guard
    The shooting guard , also known as the two or off guard, is one of five traditional positions on a basketball team. Players of the position are often shorter, leaner, and quicker than forwards. A shooting guard's main objective is to score points for his team...

    s and/or small forward
    Small forward
    The small forward, or colloquially known as three, is one of the five positions in a regulation basketball game. Small forwards are typically somewhat shorter, quicker, and leaner than power forwards and centers, but on occasion are just as tall...

    s), and two posts/pivots (power forward
    Power forward (basketball)
    Power forward is a position in the sport of basketball. The position is referred to in playbook terms as the four position and is commonly abbreviated "PF". It has also been referred to as the "post" position. Power forwards play a role similar to that of center in what is called the "post" or "low...

    s and/or center
    Center (basketball)
    The center, colloquially known as the five or the post, is one of the standard positions in a regulation basketball game. The center is normally the tallest player on the team, and often has a great deal of strength and body mass as well...

    s).

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