Euroleague MVP

The Euroleague MVP is the award bestowed to the player that is deemed to be the "Most Valuable Player" during the Euroleague full season. The award in its current form, since the 2004-05 season, includes the league's regular season, top 16 stage, and playoffs. Based on a voting process, it is considered to be significantly more prestigious than the previous Euroleague MVP awards, which existed from the 2000-01 season to the 2003-04 season. The latter awards only counted for individual stages of the season, and were awarded strictly by a statistical formula called PIR, independently of team performance.

Currently, online fan voting represents 25% of the vote total for the MVP award, while media voting accounts for the remaining 75%. Team success is unofficially paramount during the selection process. Since established, the award has never gone to a player whose team did not reach the Euroleague Final Four. It is nevertheless theoretically possible for that to occur in the future, as no rule stands against it. Anthony Parker is the only player who won the award twice. Except him, all the other winners are European.

History

The Euroleague MVP in its current form was awarded for the first time during the Euroleague 2004-05 season. It replaced both the original Euroleague Regular Season MVP and Euroleague Top 16 MVP awards. The Euroleague MVP award combined the previous regular season and Top 16 awards together, into a new award that is for the entire Euroleague season, except the Euroleague Final Four, which has its own MVP award.

The original Euroleague MVP awards, the Regular Season MVP award (2000-01 season to the 2003-04 season) and the Top 16 MVP award (2001-02 season to the 2003-04 season), were divided up by season stage and the regular season stage award was bestowed solely based on a player's average Performance Index Rating stat, and independently of his team's performance. It was not until the 2004-05 season that an actual season MVP award, based on the full season, and actually based on a set voting criteria, rather than merely a statistical formula, was introduced.

FIBA SuproLeague MVP

Nate Huffman did not play in the actual Euroleague in the 2000-01 season. He played in the FIBA SuproLeague that season, which was an entirely different and separate competition. However, after that season, the FIBA SuproLeague was dissolved and absorbed into the Euroleague. As part of this arrangement, the Euroleague agreed to recognize the championship and awards of that competition. However, the SuproLeague MVP award, while recognized, is not considered a Euroleague MVP, but rather a SuproLeague MVP. Just as all the stats from the FIBA SuproLeague competition are recognized, but are not considered to be Euroleague stats.

Season	Position	MVP	Team
2000-01*[a]	Center	Nate Huffman	Maccabi Tel Aviv

Euroleague Basketball Regular Season and Top 16 MVP (2001-04)

Initially, the Euroleague gave out MVP awards for both the regular season and top 16 stages of the competition. The PIR statistical formula was used to determine this original form of the MVP award. Since these stages of the season only encompassed a small portion of the full season, these awards were eventually replaced with the current full season MVP award. As such, the Euroleague decided that the Euroleague MVP of the Month award was a more fitting and appropriate award to give out instead of the regular season and top 16 MVP awards.

Regular Season MVP award winners (2001-04) Season Position MVP Team 2000-01*[b] Center Dejan Tomašević Budućnost Podgorica 2001-02 Forward Mirsad Türkcan CSKA Moscow 2002-03 Center Joseph Blair Ülkerspor 2003-04 Center Arvydas Sabonis Žalgiris Kaunas

Top 16 MVP award winners (2002-04) Season Position MVP Team 2001-02 Forward Dejan Bodiroga Panathinaikos Athens 2002-03 Forward Mirsad Türkcan Montepaschi Siena 2003-04 Center Arvydas Sabonis Žalgiris Kaunas

Euroleague Basketball MVP (2005-present)

Starting with the 2004-05 season, the Euroleague officially began giving out its current full season MVP award for the first time. Unlike the previous Euroleague MVP awards, this award encompasses the full season of Euroleague, up until the Euroleague Final Four stage. Rather than being based on the PIR statistical formula, like previous Euroleague MVP awards, the current full season MVP award is based on a combination of online voting by fans and the media. The online fan vote comprises 25% of the vote total, while the media vote encompasses 75% of the vote total.

Season	Position	MVP	Team
2004-05	Forward	Anthony Parker	Maccabi Tel Aviv
2005-06	Forward	Anthony Parker (2)	Maccabi Tel Aviv
2006-07	Guard	Theo Papaloukas	CSKA Moscow
2007-08	Forward	Ramūnas Šiškauskas	CSKA Moscow
2008-09	Guard	Juan Carlos Navarro	Barcelona
2009-10	Guard	Miloš Teodosić	Olympiacos Piraeus
2010-11	Guard	Dimitris Diamantidis	Panathinaikos Athens
2011-12	Forward	Andrei Kirilenko	CSKA Moscow
2012-13	Guard	Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos Piraeus

Multiple honors

Players Number Player 2 Anthony Parker 1 Seven players

Player nationality Number Country 3 Greece 2 USA 1 Lithuania Russia Serbia Spain

Teams Number Team 3 CSKA Moscow 2 Maccabi Tel Aviv Olympiacos Piraeus 1 Barcelona Bàsquet Panathinaikos

See also

• Euroleague Awards
• 50 Greatest Euroleague Contributors
• Euroleague Basketball 2001-10 All-Decade Team
• Euroleague Final Four MVP

Notes

• ^a There were two officially recognized Euroleague competitions during the 2000-01 season. The FIBA SuproLeague 2000-01, and the Euroleague Basketball 2000-01. Huffman was the MVP of the FIBA SuproLeague competition that season.
• ^b There were two officially recognized Euroleague competitions during the 2000-01 season. The FIBA SuproLeague 2000-01, and the Euroleague Basketball 2000-01. Tomašević was the MVP of the Euroleague Basketball competition that season.

External links

• Euroleague Official Web Page
• InterBasket Euroleague Basketball Forum
• TalkBasket Euroleague Basketball Forum
• Euroleague's Youtube Channel
• Euroleague's Youtube Channel (Spanish)

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