Euroleague MVP

The Euroleague MVP, or Euroleague Full Season MVP, is the award bestowed to the player that is deemed to be the "Most Valuable Player" during the Euroleague full season. The award has existed and been awarded by the Euroleague since the 2004–05 season.[1] It is awarded for play that includes the league's regular season, top 16 stage, and playoffs.

The Euroleague MVP award is the first and only full season MVP award that is voted on and given by the Euroleague. Previous awards like the Euroleague Regular Season and Top 16 MVP awards were only for individual phases of the season and were based on the PIR stat, and not on an actual voting process. When the Euroleague Full Season MVP award was created, those awards were phased out altogether, in place of the Euroleague MVP of the Month award.

The award is based on a voting process. 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. For example, players whose teams have only made it to the top 16 stage of the competition, are nominated into the online fan voting every year and have also even been selected to the All-Euroleague First Team.

So far, Anthony Parker is the only player who has won the award twice. Other than Parker, all the other winners of the award have been Europeans.

Euroleague Full Season MVP award winners (2005–present)

Starting with the 2004–05 season, the Euroleague officially began giving out its Full Season MVP award for the first time.[2] Unlike the Euroleague Regular Season and Top 16 MVP awards, this award encompasses the full season of Euroleague, up until the Euroleague Final Four stage. Also, rather than being based on the PIR statistical formula, like the Euroleague Regular Season and Top 16 MVP awards, the 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
United States Anthony Parker Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv
2005–06
Forward
United States Anthony Parker (2) Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv
2006–07
Guard
Greece Theo Papaloukas Russia CSKA Moscow
2007–08
Forward
Lithuania Ramūnas Šiškauskas Russia CSKA Moscow
2008–09
Guard
Spain Juan Carlos Navarro Spain FC Barcelona
2009–10
Guard
Serbia Miloš Teodosić Greece Olympiacos
2010–11
Guard
Greece Dimitris Diamantidis Greece Panathinaikos
2011–12
Forward
Russia Andrei Kirilenko Russia CSKA Moscow
2012–13
Guard
Greece Vassilis Spanoulis Greece Olympiacos
2013–14
Guard
Spain Sergio Rodríguez Spain Real Madrid
2014–15
Forward
Serbia Nemanja Bjelica Turkey Fenerbahçe Ülker

Multiple honors

Players

Number Player
2
 United States Anthony Parker
1
 Nine players

Player nationality

Number Country
3
 Greece Greece
2
 Serbia Serbia
Spain Spain
United States USA
1
 Lithuania Lithuania
Russia Russia

Teams

Number Team
3
 Russia CSKA Moscow
2
 Israel Maccabi Tel Aviv
Greece Olympiacos
1
 Spain FC Barcelona
Turkey Fenerbahçe
Greece Panathinaikos
Spain Real Madrid

See also

References

  1. ↑ 2014-15 bwin MVP: Nemanja Bjelica, Fenerbahce Ulker Istanbul.
  2. ↑ 2014-15 bwin MVP: Nemanja Bjelica, Fenerbahce Ulker Istanbul.

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