ULEB Eurocup Awards - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The Eurocup Basketball Awards are the awards given to the top individual performers of each season's edition of Eurocup Basketball, which is Europe's second-tier level continental professional basketball

Basketball

Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules...

competition. The Eurocup is the level that is one tier below the Euroleague

Euroleague

Euroleague Basketball, commonly known as the Euroleague, is the highest level tier and most important professional club basketball competition in Europe, with teams from up to 18 different countries, members of FIBA Europe. For sponsorship reasons, for five seasons starting with 2010–2011, it is...

level.

Eurocup awards

The awards are given out each season and include: the Eurocup Finals MVP award, the Eurocup MVP award, the Eurocup Rising Star award, the Eurocup Coach of the Year award, and the All-Eurocup Team.

Eurocup Finals MVP

The Eurocup Finals MVP award began with the 2002-03 season.

Season	Finals MVP	Team
2002-03	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...	Valencia
2003-04	Kelly McCarty Kelly McCarty Kelly Deshawn McCarty is a naturalized Russian professional basketball player, originally from the United States . He currently plays with UNICS Kazan of the VTB United League....	Hapoel Jerusalem
2004-05	Robertas Javtokas Robertas Javtokas Robertas Javtokas is a Lithuanian professional basketball player. Javtokas is 2.11 m in height and weighs 122 kg . He plays the center position. He has been a member of the Lithuanian national team since 2000...	Lietuvos Rytas BC Lietuvos Rytas BC Lietuvos rytas is a professional basketball club based in Vilnius, Lithuania playing in the Lithuanian Basketball League , the VTB United League, and the Eurocup...
2005-06	Ruben Douglas Ruben Douglas Ruben Enrique Douglas is a Panamanian-American professional basketball player. He is a 1.96 m 210 lb point guard-shooting guard.-Amateur career:...	Dynamo Moscow MBC Dynamo Moscow MBC Dynamo Moscow is a Russian professional basketball team from Moscow, Russia.-Early Years:Created in 1923 when Russia was part of the Soviet Union, Dynamo is among the oldest sports clubs in the country. Its name was chosen because Dynamo means 'power in motion'. The club was backed by the...
2006-07 EuroCup 2006-07 The EuroCup 2006–07 was a professional basketball tournament in Europe. The competition is regarded as the third-strongest pan-European club basketball competition. Akasvayu Girona became the champion, after beating Azovmash Mariupol in the final....	Charles Smith Charles Cornelius Smith Charles Cornelius Smith is an American professional basketball player...	Real Madrid Real Madrid Baloncesto Real Madrid Baloncesto is a Spanish professional basketball team founded in 1932 as a division of the Real Madrid club. They play in the Asociación de Clubes de Baloncesto ....
2007-08 EuroCup 2007-08 The EuroCup, also called FIBA EuroCup, is the former name of an international professional basketball club competition for clubs throughout Europe that was renamed the EuroChallenge in July 2008. The 2007-2008 season, the last for the competition under the EuroCup banner, featured 38 competing...	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...	Joventut Badalona Joventut Badalona Club Joventut Badalona, S.A.D. is a Spanish professional basketball club based in Badalona, Catalonia, playing in the Asociación de Clubs de Baloncesto . Known to their fans as La Penya , it is one of only three teams that have never been relegated from the top division of the Spanish League...
2008-09	Marijonas Petravičius Marijonas Petravicius Marijonas Petravičius is a Lithuanian professional basketball player. He currently a free agent. He is a member of the Lithuania national team...	Lietuvos Rytas BC Lietuvos Rytas BC Lietuvos rytas is a professional basketball club based in Vilnius, Lithuania playing in the Lithuanian Basketball League , the VTB United League, and the Eurocup...
2009-10	Matt Nielsen	Valencia
2010-11	Marko Popović Marko Popovic (born 1982) Marko Popović is a Croatian professional basketball player of Serbian descent. He is a 1.85 m and 86 kg point guard...	UNICS Kazan UNICS Kazan UNICS Kazan is a professional basketball club in Kazan, Russia playing in the PBL. Their home arena is Basket Hall Arena.Though officially the professional club was founded in 1991 , UNICS traces its origin back to KSU's college team Burevestnik which participated in USSR student championships...

Eurocup MVP

The Eurocup MVP award began with the 2008-09 season.

Season	MVP	Nationality	Team
2008-09	Chuck Eidson Chuck Eidson Chuck Eidson is an American professional basketball player. He is 2.02 m tall and he plays mainly at the small forward position. He can also play at both the point guard and shooting guard positions as well as a point forward...	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	Lietuvos Rytas BC Lietuvos Rytas BC Lietuvos rytas is a professional basketball club based in Vilnius, Lithuania playing in the Lithuanian Basketball League , the VTB United League, and the Eurocup...
2009-10	Marko Banić Marko Banic Marko Banić, Marko Banić, Marko Banić, (born August 31, 1984, in Zadar, Republic of Croatia, is a Croatian professional basketball player. He is 6'8¾" (2.05 m) in height, and plays the power forward position. Currently, he is a member of Bilbao Berri....	Croatia Croatia Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...	Bilbao
2010-11	Dontaye Draper Dontaye Draper Dontaye Dominic Draper is an American professional basketball player. He is a 5'11" tall point guard.-College career:...	United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...	Cedevita Zagreb Cedevita Zagreb KK Cedevita, also known as Cedevita Zagreb is a Croatian professional basketball club based in Zagreb that currently plays in the A-1 Liga, in Adriatic League and in ULEB Eurocup. .-Club history:...

Eurocup Rising Star

The Eurocup Rising Star award began with the 2008-09 season.

Season	Rising Star	Nationality	Team
2008-09	Milan Mačvan Milan Macvan Milan Mačvan is a Serbian professional basketball player for KK Partizan, on loan from Maccabi Tel Aviv. He is 6' 9" tall and he weighs 265 lbs....	Serbia Serbia Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...	Hemofarm KK Hemofarm Košarkaški klub Hemofarm is a professional basketball club from Vršac, Serbia. The club currently participates in the Adriatic League and Serbian League...
2009-10	Víctor Claver Víctor Claver Víctor Claver Arocas is a Spanish professional basketball player. He is 6 ft 9 ½ in tall and weighs 236 lbs . He currently plays with the club Valencia.-Pro career:...	Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...	Valencia
2010-11	Donatas Motiejūnas Donatas Motiejunas Donatas Motiejūnas is a Lithuanian professional basketball player. He plays the power forward and center positions. He is nicknamed "D-Mo" by Houston Rockets fans. Motiejūnas was selected twentieth overall in the 2011 NBA Draft....	Lithuania Lithuania Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...	Treviso

Eurocup Coach of the Year

The Eurocup Coach of the Year award began with the 2008-09 season.
{ class="wikitable sortable" Season Coach of the Year Nationality Team 2008-09 Oktay Mahmuti

Oktay Mahmuti

Oktay Mahmuti is a Turkish professional basketball coach. Mahmuti was born to Turkish parents living in Skopje. Mahmuti graduated from Istanbul University Faculty of Pharmacy...

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe...

Treviso 2009-10 Ilias Zouros

Ilias Zouros

Ilias Zouros is a Greek professional basketball coach. He has been a head coach in the Euroleague, and also of the senior men's Greek national basketball team.-Club coaching career:...

Greece

Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , and historically Hellas or the Republic of Greece in English, is a country in southeastern Europe....

Panellinios 2010-11 Aleksandar Petrović

Aleksandar Petrovic (basketball)

Aleksandar "Aco" Petrović is a Croatian professional basketball coach and former professional player. Petrović is also the older brother of the late Dražen Petrović.-Playing career:...

Croatia

Croatia , officially the Republic of Croatia , is a unitary democratic parliamentary republic in Europe at the crossroads of the Mitteleuropa, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. The country is divided into 20 counties and the city of Zagreb. Croatia covers ...

Cedevita Zagreb

KK Cedevita, also known as Cedevita Zagreb is a Croatian professional basketball club based in Zagreb that currently plays in the A-1 Liga, in Adriatic League and in ULEB Eurocup. .-Club history:...

All-Eurocup Team 2008-09:

{ class="wikitable sortable" Season Position All-Eurocup First Team Club Team All-Eurocup Second Team Club Team 2008-09 G

Chuck Eidson

Chuck Eidson is an American professional basketball player. He is 2.02 m tall and he plays mainly at the small forward position. He can also play at both the point guard and shooting guard positions as well as a point forward...

Lietuvos Rytas

BC Lietuvos Rytas

BC Lietuvos rytas is a professional basketball club based in Vilnius, Lithuania playing in the Lithuanian Basketball League , the VTB United League, and the Eurocup...

Khalid El-Amin

Khalid El-Amin is an American professional basketball player. He was a member of the 1999 UConn men's basketball team that won the NCAA championship. He is originally from Minnesota where he played for North High School in Minneapolis...

Türk Telekom

Türk Telekom B.K.

Türk Telekom Basketbol Kulübü is a professional basketball club of based in Ankara, Turkey. It is branch of the Türk Telekom GSK. Their home arena is the Ankara Arena with a capacity of 10,400 seats which was opened in April 2010...

2008-09 G

Kelly McCarty

Kelly Deshawn McCarty is a naturalized Russian professional basketball player, originally from the United States . He currently plays with UNICS Kazan of the VTB United League....

Khimky

Gary Neal

Gary Neal is an American professional basketball guard for the San Antonio Spurs of the National Basketball Association . Neal attended Aberdeen High School and Calvert Hall College High School in Maryland then played college basketball at La Salle University before tranfserring to Towson University...

Treviso 2008-09 F

Boštjan Nachbar Dynamo Moscow

MBC Dynamo Moscow

MBC Dynamo Moscow is a Russian professional basketball team from Moscow, Russia.-Early Years:Created in 1923 when Russia was part of the Soviet Union, Dynamo is among the oldest sports clubs in the country. Its name was chosen because Dynamo means 'power in motion'. The club was backed by the...

Travis Hansen

Travis Mitchell Hansen is an American former professional basketball player who last played for BC Khimki in Russia. He played one year in the NBA for the Atlanta Hawks.-Biography:...

Dynamo Moscow

MBC Dynamo Moscow

2008-09 F

Marko Banić

Marko Banic

Marko Banić, Marko Banić, Marko Banić, (born August 31, 1984, in Zadar, Republic of Croatia, is a Croatian professional basketball player. He is 6'8¾" (2.05 m) in height, and plays the power forward position. Currently, he is a member of Bilbao Berri....

Bilbao

Matt Nielsen Valencia 2008-09 C

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...

Todor Gečevski

Todor Gečevski is a Macedonian professional basketball player. He is 6 ft 10 ¾ in in height and in weight. He plays the center and power forward positions.-Pro career:...

Zadar

KK Zadar

KK Zadar is a Croatian professional basketball team from the city of Zadar playing in the A-1 Liga.Zadar is the place where Croatian basketball was born in 1930. Zadar's reputation has been of a basketball hotbed with a team that can capture trophies at any given moment...

Sandro Nicević

Sandro Nicevic

Sandro Nicević is a Croatian professional basketball player.-Pro career:In his professional career, Nicević has played with: Gradine Pula, Franck Zagreb, Benston Zagreb, Cibona Zagreb, Olimpija Ljubljana, Le Mans, AEK Athens, Unicaja Málaga, Beşiktaş, Benetton Treviso.-Croatian national...

Treviso

All-Eurocup Team 2009-10:

{ class="wikitable sortable" Season Position All-Eurocup First Team Club Team All-Eurocup Second Team Club Team 2009-10 G

Nando De Colo

Nando de Colo

Nando de Colo is a French professional basketball player. His parents are from Portugal.-Pro career:...

Valencia

Arthur Lee

Arthur Lee (basketball)

Arthur Lee is an American professional basketball player. A 6'1¼", 180 lb. point guard from Stanford University, Lee guided the Stanford Cardinal to the Final Four in 1998...

ČEZ Nymburk

CEZ Basketball Nymburk

ČEZ Basketball Nymburk is a professional basketball team that plays in the top professional Czech basketball league, the NBL. The team is based in the town of Nymburk. The club's main sponsor is ČEZ, a Czech energy company.-History:...

2009-10 G

Immanuel McElroy

Immanuel McElroy is an American professional basketball player. He is a point guard-shooting guard and small forward.-College career:...

ALBA Berlin

-Depth Chart:* Denotes injured player.-Championships:*German Championships: 8 *German Cups: 6 *Korać Cups: 1 -Notable players:- Season by season :-External links:...

Kostas Charalampidis Panellinios 2009-10 F

Devin Smith

Devin Michael Smith is an American professional basketball player. He is a 6'6" tall small forward and Shooting Guard...

Panellinios

Dijon Thompson

Dijon Lynn Thompson is an American professional basketball player. While he played mainly at the shooting guard position in his early career, he proved he can also play as a small forward, during his European years.-College:Thompson was a standout at UCLA having an all time scoring average of 15.6...

Hapoel Jerusalem 2009-10 F

Marko Banić

Marko Banic

Bilbao

James Augustine Gran Canaria

CB Gran Canaria

Club Baloncesto Gran Canaria - Claret, S.A.D. is a professional basketball team that plays in the Asociación de Clubes de Baloncesto. The team is based in the autonomous community's capital and largest city, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands. It plays at Centro Insular.-History:CB Gran...

2009-10 C

Center (basketball)

Matt Nielsen Valencia

Blagota Sekulić

Blagota Sekulic

Blagota Sekulić is a Montenegrin professional basketball player...

ALBA Berlin

-Depth Chart:* Denotes injured player.-Championships:*German Championships: 8 *German Cups: 6 *Korać Cups: 1 -Notable players:- Season by season :-External links:...

All-Eurocup Team 2010-11:

{ class="wikitable sortable" Season Position All-Eurocup First Team Club Team All-Eurocup Second Team Club Team 2010-11 G

Dontaye Draper

Dontaye Dominic Draper is an American professional basketball player. He is a 5'11" tall point guard.-College career:...

Cedevita Zagreb

KK Cedevita, also known as Cedevita Zagreb is a Croatian professional basketball club based in Zagreb that currently plays in the A-1 Liga, in Adriatic League and in ULEB Eurocup. .-Club history:...

Bracey Wright

Bracey Wright is an American professional basketball player.-Amateur career:Wright attended Arbor Creek Middle School in Carrollton, TX and The Colony High School in The Colony, Texas. He was a former high school teammate of New Jersey Nets guard Deron Williams...

Cedevita Zagreb

KK Cedevita, also known as Cedevita Zagreb is a Croatian professional basketball club based in Zagreb that currently plays in the A-1 Liga, in Adriatic League and in ULEB Eurocup. .-Club history:...

2010-11 G

Terrell Lyday

Terrell Lyday is an American professional basketball player playing in Europe.In June 2011 he extended the contract with UNICS Kazan for 2 more years.-Amateur Teams:...

UNICS Kazan

UNICS Kazan is a professional basketball club in Kazan, Russia playing in the PBL. Their home arena is Basket Hall Arena.Though officially the professional club was founded in 1991 , UNICS traces its origin back to KSU's college team Burevestnik which participated in USSR student championships...

Dwayne Anderson

Dwayne Anderson, Jr. is a former American college basketball player who most recently played for BG Göttingen in German Basketball League. He played as both a forward and a guard at Villanova University in Pennsylvania.-Early life:...

BG Goettingen 2010-11 F

Devin Smith

Devin Michael Smith is an American professional basketball player. He is a 6'6" tall small forward and Shooting Guard...

Treviso

Kelly McCarty

Kelly Deshawn McCarty is a naturalized Russian professional basketball player, originally from the United States . He currently plays with UNICS Kazan of the VTB United League....

UNICS Kazan

2010-11 F

Tariq Kirksay

Tariq Kirksay is a French American basketball player. He is a member of the France national basketball team.- External links :*...

Sevilla

Nik Caner-Medley

Nik Caner-Medley is a professional basketball player, currently with Power Electronics Valencia of Spain's ACB. He was named Maine Gatorade Player of the Year, and "Mr. Basketball" as a senior at Deering High School. He averaged 35.6 PPG as a senior and 26.8 PPG as a junior, both good for first in...

Estudiantes

CB Estudiantes

Club Baloncesto Estudiantes, S.A.D., known as Asefa Estudiantes for sponsorship reasons, is a basketball team based in the city of Madrid, Community of Madrid. It is member of the Asociación de Clubes de Baloncesto . Founded in 1948, it is one of the most recognized basketball teams in Spain...

2010-11 C

Center (basketball)

Maciej Lampe

Maciej Bolesław Lampe is a Polish professional basketball player. He currently plays with Caja Laboral in Spain.-Professional career:Originally from Łódź, Poland, Lampe grew up in Stockholm, Sweden...

UNICS Kazan

Paul Davis

Paul Davis (basketball)

Paul Davis is an American professional basketball player. Davis started his career at Reuther Middle School where his number has been retired. Davis played for Rochester High School, earning Mr. Basketball of Michigan honors in 2002. As a center for the Michigan State Spartans, he finished the...

Sevilla

External links

Eurocup Basketball Official Web Page

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