The National Basketball League Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) is an annual
National Basketball League (NBL) award given since the league's
inaugural season to the best performing player of the regular season. Throughout the year, coaching staff from each team vote on the best performing players in every game, using a 5-4-3-2-1 system at the completion of each match. The votes are collated and the individual with the most votes at the end of the regular season is awarded the Most Valuable Player.
The winner receives the Andrew Gaze Trophy,
which is named in honour of Australian basketball legend
Andrew Gaze
Andrew Barry Casson Gaze (born 24 July 1965) is an Australian former professional basketball player and coach. He played 22 seasons in the National Basketball League (NBL) with the Melbourne Tigers from 1984 to 2005, winning the league's MVP a ...
, a seven-time winner of the NBL MVP award.
Winners
Multi-time winners
See also
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List of National Basketball League (Australia) awards
The National Basketball League (NBL) presents 7 annual awards to recognize its teams, players, and coaches for their accomplishments. This does not include the NBL championship trophy, which is given to the winning team of the NBL Grand Final ...
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New Zealand NBL Most Valuable Player Award
The National Basketball League Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual National Basketball League (NBL) award given since the 2003 New Zealand NBL season to the best performing player of the regular season. At the end of each season, the player ...
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Most Valuable Player
In team sports, a most valuable player award, abbreviated 'MVP award', is an honor typically bestowed upon an individual (or individuals, in the instance of a tie) whose individual performance is the greatest in an entire league, for a particu ...
Basketball most valuable player awards
Awards established in 1979