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The ACB Best Young Player Award, previously known as the ACB Rising Star Award, from 2005 to 2013, is an award for the top-tier professional basketball league in Spain, the Spanish ACB League. The award has been given since the 2004–05 ACB season.

Currently, to be eligible for the award, players must be 22 years old or younger, and must have played in at least half of the league's games during the season, with an average playing time per game of at least 10 minutes.[1] An All-ACB Best Young Players Team is also chosen.

Rising Star award winners (2004–13)

Sergio Rodríguez was the Liga ACB Rising Star in 2005.
Ricky Rubio was the Liga ACB Rising Star in 2007.

The following is a list of the all-time ACB Rising Star Award winners.

Season Player Team
2004–05 Spain Sergio Rodríguez Adecco Estudiantes
2005–06 Spain Carlos Suárez Adecco Estudiantes
2006–07 Spain Ricky Rubio DKV Joventut
2007–08 Bosnia and Herzegovina Mirza Teletović TAU Cerámica
2008–09 Spain Brad Oleson Alta Gestión Fuenlabrada
2009–10 North Macedonia Richard Hendrix CB Granada
2010–11 Mexico Gustavo Ayón Baloncesto Fuenlabrada
2011–12 United States Micah Downs Assignia Manresa
2012–13 Tunisia Salah Mejri Blu:sens Monbús

Best Young Player award winners (2013–present)

The following is a list of the all-time ACB Best Young Player Award winners.

Season Player Team Ref.
2013–14 Spain Guillem Vives FIATC Joventut [2]
2014–15 Spain Dani Díez Gipuzkoa Basket [3]
2015–16 Spain Juancho Hernangómez Movistar Estudiantes [4]
2016–17 Slovenia Luka Dončić Real Madrid [5]
2017–18 Slovenia Luka Dončić (2) Real Madrid [6]
2018–19 Spain Carlos Alocén Tecnyconta Zaragoza
2019–20 Spain Carlos Alocén (2) Casademont Zaragoza
2020–21 Spain Usman Garuba Real Madrid
2021–22 Spain Joel Parra Joventut Badalona
2022–23 Dominican Republic Jean Montero Real Betis

All-ACB Best Young Players Team

Season Players Teams
2013–14[7] Spain Guillem Vives FIATC Joventut
Spain Álex Abrines FC Barcelona
Sweden Markus Eriksson La Bruixa d'Or
Latvia Kristaps Porziņģis Cajasol
Cape Verde Walter Tavares Herbalife Gran Canaria
2014–15[8] Spain Guillem Vives (2) Valencia Basket
Spain Álex Abrines (2) FC Barcelona
Spain Dani Díez Gipuzkoa Basket
Latvia Kristaps Porziņģis (2) Baloncesto Sevilla
Spain Willy Hernangómez Baloncesto Sevilla
2015–16[9] Sweden Ludde Håkanson Baloncesto Sevilla
Slovenia Luka Dončić Real Madrid
Spain Santiago Yusta Rio Natura Monbus Obradoiro
Spain Juancho Hernangómez Movistar Estudiantes
Spain Willy Hernangómez (2) Real Madrid
2016–17[10] Slovenia Luka Dončić (2) Real Madrid
Spain Alberto Abalde Divina Seguros Joventut
Latvia Rolands Šmits Montakit Fuenlabrada
Bulgaria Sasha Vezenkov FC Barcelona Lassa
Latvia Anžejs Pasečņiks Herbalife Gran Canaria
2017–18 Spain Sergi García Valencia Basket
Slovenia Luka Dončić (3) Real Madrid
Spain Xabier López-Arostegui Divina Seguros Joventut
Spain Jonathan Barreiro Tecnyconta Zaragoza
Sweden Simon Birgander Divina Seguros Joventut
2018–19 Spain Carlos Alocén Tecnyconta Zaragoza
Spain Santiago Yusta (2) Real Madrid
Spain Xabier López-Arostegui (2) Divina Seguros Joventut
Slovenia Vlatko Čančar San Pablo Burgos
Democratic Republic of the Congo Jordan Sakho Baxi Manresa
2019–20 Spain Carlos Alocén (2) Casademont Zaragoza
North Macedonia Nenad Dimitrijević Club Joventut Badalona
Czech Republic Vít Krejčí Casademont Zaragoza
Lithuania Arnoldas Kulboka RETAbet Bilbao Basket
Spain Usman Garuba Real Madrid
2020–21 Spain Carlos Alocén (3) Real Madrid
Argentina Leandro Bolmaro FC Barcelona Lassa
Montenegro Dino Radončić Acunsa GBC
Democratic Republic of the Congo Yannick Nzosa Unicaja
Spain Usman Garuba (2) Real Madrid
2021–22 Lithuania Rokas Jokubaitis FC Barcelona
Slovenia Žiga Samar Urbas Fuenlabrada
Spain Jaime Pradilla Valencia Basket
Spain Joel Parra Joventut Badalona
Senegal Khalifa Diop Herbalife Gran Canaria
2022–23 Germany Justus Hollatz Río Breogán
Dominican Republic Jean Montero Real Betis
Spain Michael Caicedo Covirán Granada
Senegal Khalifa Diop (2) Gran Canaria
Spain Aday Mara Casademont Zaragoza

See also

References

  1. ^ Ya puedes votar el MVP Orange y el Mejor Joven Archived 2014-06-29 at the Wayback Machine; ACB.com, 30 April 2014
  2. ^ "Guillem Vives, Mejor Joven de la Liga Endesa 2013-14" [Guillem Vives, Best Young of 2013-14 Endesa League]. acb.com (in Spanish). 20 May 2014. Archived from the original on 14 February 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  3. ^ "Dani Díez, Mejor Jugador Joven de la Liga Endesa 2014-15" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 19 May 2015. Archived from the original on 20 May 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
  4. ^ "Juancho Hernangómez, Mejor Joven de la Liga Endesa 2015-16" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 17 May 2016. Archived from the original on 23 May 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
  5. ^ "Luka Doncic, Mejor Joven de la Liga Endesa 2016-17" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 17 May 2017. Archived from the original on 26 May 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
  6. ^ "Luka Doncic, Mejor Joven de la Liga Endesa 2017-18" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 23 May 2017. Archived from the original on 24 May 2018. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
  7. ^ Mejor Quinteto Joven de la Liga Endesa 2013-14 Archived 2014-07-26 at the Wayback Machine; ACB.com, 20 May 2014
  8. ^ Mejor Quinteto Joven de la Liga Endesa 2014-15 Archived 2015-05-21 at the Wayback Machine; ACB.com, 19 May 2015
  9. ^ Mejor Quinteto Joven de la Liga Endesa 2015-16 Archived 2016-05-23 at the Wayback Machine; ACB.com, 16 May 2016
  10. ^ "Mejor Quinteto Joven de la Liga Endesa 2016-17" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 17 May 2017. Archived from the original on 28 May 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2017.

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