Adam Wójcik (20 April 1970 – 26 August 2017) was a Polish professional

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player. He was known as one of the all-time greats in Polish basketball. He is the second all-time leading scorer of the

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, with 10,087 points scored.

Professional career

On club level, he played in his native Poland, and also in Belgium, Greece, Italy and Spain. He is second in the all-time list of games played in the Polish League, with a total of 651, and points scored, with 10,087 points. He was a three-time Polish League MVP, and also the finals MVP in 1998, 2001, and 2005. He won eight Polish League championships, two Polish Cups, and he was also a

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champion, in 1997. Wojcik made his EuroLeague debut in 2001, with

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of Greece, the first of his six consecutive seasons in the competition. In his debut season, 2001–02, he was the EuroLeague's eighth-best scorer, with 18.4 points per game. Next, he made one-year stops at

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and

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, before spending three seasons in a row with

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, and leading the team to the EuroLeague Top 16 twice. He finished his EuroLeague career with a 10.8 points per game scoring average, for a total of 1,030 points, over 95 games. He subsequently played one season in the second tier level EuroCup, in the 2009–10 season, with

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of Poland. He retired in 2012.

National team career

With the senior

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, Wojcik played in 149

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, the second most in the Polish national team's history, and he scored 1,821 points. He played at four EuroBasket's -

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, and

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Death

On 26 August 2017, Wojcik died at the age of 47, of

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Awards and accomplishments

Club career

* 8× Polish League champion: 1995, 1998–2001, 2005–2007 *

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winner: 2004, 2006 * 2×

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winner: 1999, 2000 *

Champion: 1997

Individual awards

* 3×

PLK Most Valuable Player The PLK Most Valuable Player award is given annually at the end of the regular season of the Polish Basketball League (PLK), the highest professional basketball league in Poland, to the most valuable player of the league. Originally, the award was ...

: 1998, 2001, 2005 * 3×

PLK Finals MVP The PLK Finals MVP award is handed out to the best player in the Polish Basketball League Finals, the final series of the highest Polish basketball league. Winners : There was no awarding in the 2019–20, because the season was cancelled due ...

: 1998, 2001, 2005 * 9×

All-PLK Team The All-PLK Team is an annual honour for the five best players of a given Polish Basketball League (PLK) regular season. The team is voted by press reporters from around the country. Teams The player in bold was named the PLK Most Valuable Playe ...

: 1990–1993, 1995, 1998, 1999, 2001, 2005 * 10× PLK All-Star: 1994, 1995, 1998–2001, 2004–2006, 2009 * 2× PLK All-Star Game MVP: 1999, 2009 * Greek League All-Star: 2002 *

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: 2007