The FIBA Europe Men's Player of the Year Award was an annual official
FIBA Europe
FIBA Europe is the administrative body for basketball in Europe, within the FIBA, International Basketball Federation (FIBA), which includes all List of men's national basketball teams#FIBA Europe, 50 national European basketball federations.
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award for the
Player of the Year (POY), that was inaugurated in the year 2005, and bestowed until 2014.
ALL WINNERS.
/ref> The winner was a basketball player who had European citizenship, and whose performances with his sports club
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and/or national team
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throughout the year had reached the highest level of excellence. All players with European citizenship, regardless of where they played in the world, qualified for the award, including NBA
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players. Players did not have to play in any FIBA
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competitions in order to be eligible.
The winner received the prize, after winning a vote of both fans and a panel of basketball experts, media members, and coaches, from twenty five countries. Consequently, the legitimacy of the award was somewhat higher than '' Superbasket'' magazine's old Mister Europa Award, '' Gazzetta dello Sport's'' Euroscar Award, and Eurobasket.com's All-Europe Player of the Year award, which did not, or still do not include the fan vote. That being specified, the importance of the former awards relies on their tradition, as their inception occurred in 1976, 1979, and 2002 respectively. All in all, the laureates are often the same on all four lists, with all of them representing many of the biggest European basketball stars since the mid-1970s.
Winners
If a winner played for more than one club team in the calendar year of his award, all teams are listed in chronological order.
FIBA Europe Men's Players of the Year
See also
* FIBA Europe Young Men's Player of the Year Award
* Euroscar
The Euroscar European Player of the Year Award is an annual basketball award given to the year's best male European basketball player. Its name is a portmanteau of Europe and Oscar, and the award is often referred to as "European basketball’s O ...
* Mr. Europa
The Mister Europa European Player of the Year Award was an annual basketball award created in 1976, and given until 2010, by the panel of journalists of the Italy, Italian weekly magazine ''Superbasket''. Its purpose was to praise the best basket ...
* EuroLeague MVP
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* EuroLeague Final Four MVP
References
External links
FIBAEurope.com Player of the Year Award
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FIBA Europe
European basketball awards
Awards established in 2005
Awards disestablished in 2014