EuroLeague Final Four MVP

Jānis Krūmiņš was the EuroLeague Finals Top Scorer 3 times (1958, 1959, 1960).

The EuroLeague Final Four Most Valuable Player Award is presented and awarded to the basketball player who has exhibited the most exceptional play during the EuroLeague Final Four. The award often goes to the best player on the European-wide top-tier level EuroLeague's best team. It is generally considered to be the most prestigious individual award in European professional club basketball.

The Final Four MVP award was first given at the end of the 1987–88 season, when the competition that would later become called EuroLeague, was then known as the FIBA European Champions Cup. Prior to the 1987–88 season, the Top Scorer of the EuroLeague Finals was noted. However, an actual MVP was not named until the first EuroLeague Final Four of the modern era was held.

EuroLeague Finals Top Scorers (1958 to 1987)

Bob Morse was the EuroLeague Finals Top Scorer 2 times (1975, 1976).

From the 1958 to 1986–87 seasons, the Top Scorer of the EuroLeague Finals was noted, regardless of whether he played on the winning or losing team. However, there was no actual MVP award given.^[1]

Season	Top Scorer	Team	Points Scored	Ref.
1958	Jānis Krūmiņš	ASK Riga	22.5 (2 games)
1958–59	Jānis Krūmiņš (2×)	ASK Riga	28.0 (2 games)
1959–60	Jānis Krūmiņš (3×)	ASK Riga	21.5 (2 games)
1960–61	Viktor Zubkov	CSKA Moscow	21.5 (2 games)
1961–62	Wayne Hightower	Real Madrid	30
1962–63	Emiliano Rodríguez**	Real Madrid	21.0 (3 games)
1963–64	Emiliano Rodríguez** (2×)	Real Madrid	29.5 (2 games)
1964–65	Clifford Luyk	Real Madrid	24.0 (2 games)
1965–66	Jiří Zídek Sr.	Slavia Prague	22
1966–67	Steve Chubin	Simmenthal Milano	34
1967–68	Miles Aiken	Real Madrid	26
1968–69	Vladimir Andreev	CSKA Moscow	37
1969–70	Sergey Belov***	CSKA Moscow	21
1970–71	Sergey Belov*** (2×)	CSKA Moscow	24
1971–72	Petar Skansi	Jugoplastika Split	26
1972–73	Sergey Belov*** (3×)	CSKA Moscow	36
1973–74	Dino Meneghin***	Ignis Varèse	25
1974–75	Bob Morse	Ignis Varèse	30
1975–76	Bob Morse (2×)	Mobilgirgi Varèse	28
1976–77	Jim Boatwright	Maccabi Elite	26
1977–78	Walter Szczerbiak Sr.	Real Madrid	25
1978–79	Žarko Varajić	Bosna	47
1979–80	Earl Williams	Maccabi Elite	31
1980–81	Marco Bonamico	Sinudyne Bologna	26
1981–82	Bruce Flowers	Squibb Cantù	23
1982–83	Antonello Riva	Ford Cantù	20
1983–84	Juan Antonio San Epifanio "Epi"	FC Barcelona	31
1984–85	Dražen Petrović***	Cibona	36
1985–86	Arvydas Sabonis***	Žalgiris	27
1986–87	Lee Johnson	Maccabi Elite	24	[1]

Multiple EuroLeague Finals Top Scorers

Number	Player
3×	Jānis Krūmiņš
	Sergey Belov
2×	Emiliano Rodríguez
	Bob Morse

Voting criteria

From the 1988 EuroLeague Final Four through the 2016 EuroLeague Final Four, the voting for the EuroLeague Final Four MVP was done by the accredited media members in attendance. Starting with the 2017 EuroLeague Final Four, the voting for the award includes an online vote of fans as well.^[2][3]

All-time EuroLeague Final Four MVP award winners (1988 to present)

Dominique Wilkins was the EuroLeague's Final Four MVP in 1996.

Dejan Bodiroga was the EuroLeague's Final Four MVP 2 times (2002, 2003).

Šarūnas Jasikevičius was the EuroLeague's Final Four MVP in 2005.

Dimitris Diamantidis was the EuroLeague's Final Four MVP 2 times (2007, 2011).

Vassilis Spanoulis was the EuroLeague's Final Four MVP 3 times (2009, 2012, 2013).

J.C. Navarro was the EuroLeague's Final Four MVP in 2010.

Nando de Colo (#12 in blue), was the EuroLeague's Final Four MVP in 2016.

Since the end of the 1987–88 season, when the first EuroLeague Final Four (1988 EuroLeague Final Four) was held, an MVP is named at the conclusion of each Final Four.^[1]

Season	Final Four MVP	Club	Ref.
1987–88	Bob McAdoo*	Tracer Milano
1988–89	Dino Rađja	Jugoplastika Split
1989–90	Toni Kukoč	Jugoplastika Split
1990–91	Toni Kukoč (2×)	Pop 84 Split
1991–92	Sašha Danilović	Partizan
1992–93	Toni Kukoč (3×)	Benetton Treviso
1993–94	Žarko Paspalj	Olympiacos
1994–95	Arvydas Sabonis***	Real Madrid
1995–96	Dominique Wilkins*	Panathinaikos
1996–97	David Rivers	Olympiacos
1997–98	Zoran Savić	Kinder Bologna
1998–99	Tyus Edney	Žalgiris
1999–00	Željko Rebrača	Panathinaikos
2000–01†	Ariel McDonald	Maccabi Elite
2000–01†	Manu Ginóbili	Kinder Bologna
2001–02	Dejan Bodiroga	Panathinaikos
2002–03	Dejan Bodiroga (2×)	FC Barcelona
2003–04	Anthony Parker	Maccabi Elite
2004–05	Šarūnas Jasikevičius	Maccabi Elite
2005–06	Theo Papaloukas	CSKA Moscow
2006–07	Dimitris Diamantidis	Panathinaikos
2007–08	Trajan Langdon	CSKA Moscow
2008–09	Vassilis Spanoulis	Panathinaikos
2009–10	Juan Carlos Navarro	FC Barcelona
2010–11	Dimitris Diamantidis (2×)	Panathinaikos
2011–12	Vassilis Spanoulis (2×)	Olympiacos
2012–13	Vassilis Spanoulis (3×)	Olympiacos
2013–14	Tyrese Rice	Maccabi Electra	[1]
2014–15	Andrés Nocioni	Real Madrid	[4]
2015–16	Nando de Colo	CSKA Moscow	[5]
2016–17	Ekpe Udoh	Fenerbahçe	[6]

† The 2000–01 season was a transition year, with the best European teams splitting into two different major leagues: The SuproLeague, held by FIBA, and the EuroLeague, held by Euroleague Basketball. That season's EuroLeague Basketball tournament did not end with a Final Four tournament. Instead, it ended with a 5-game playoff series. So, Manu Ginóbili was named the EuroLeague Finals MVP that season.

Multiple honors

Players

Number	Player
3×	Toni Kukoč
	Vassilis Spanoulis
2×	Dejan Bodiroga
	Dimitris Diamantidis
1	21 Players

NB:

• Kukoč won his first two awards in 1990 and 1991, as a citizen of SFR Yugoslavia; Croatia declared its independence on June 25, 1991, after that year's Champions Cup finals.
• Bodiroga won his first award in 2002, as a citizen of FR Yugoslavia. The country changed its name to Serbia and Montenegro in February 2003, three months before he won his second award; upon the dissolution of the latter state in 2006, he became a citizen of Serbia.

Player nationality

Number	Country
9×	United States
6×	Greece
	Yugoslavia
3×	Yugoslavia
2×	Lithuania
	Argentina
1×	Croatia
	France
	Slovenia
	Spain
	Montenegro

NB:

• Players from the former Yugoslavia are classified by their nationality in one of the current post-Yugoslav states.
• Rice won his award in 2014, as a citizen of both the United States and Montenegro.

Teams

Number	Team
6×	Panathinaikos
4×	Olympiacos
	Maccabi Tel Aviv
3×	CSKA Moscow
	Split
2×	Virtus Bologna
	FC Barcelona
	Real Madrid
1×	5 Teams

See also

• EuroLeague Awards
• EuroLeague Final Four
• EuroLeague All-Final Four Team
• EuroLeague Basketball 2001–10 All-Decade Team
• EuroLeague Season MVP
• Euroscar
• FIBA Europe Player of the Year Award
• FIBA Europe Young Men's Player of the Year Award
• 50 Greatest EuroLeague Contributors (2008)
• Mr. Europa

References

External links

• EuroLeague official webpage
• InterBasket EuroLeague Basketball Forum
• TalkBasket EuroLeague Basketball Forum
• EuroLeague's Youtube Channel
• EuroLeague's Youtube Channel (in Spanish)