Basketball Champions League
Awards
Basketball Champions League (BCL):
Individual Awards:

The Basketball Champions League (BCL) Best Young Player in an annual award of the Basketball Champions League, which is the third-tier level European-wide professional club basketball league, that is given to the player the Basketball Champions League deems its best young player. The award is given by FIBA. The award began with the league's inaugural 2016–17 season.

Only players who are aged 22 and under qualify for the award.

Voting criteria

The Basketball Champions League MVP is chosen by a vote of the fans online, a vote of media journalists and representatives, and a vote of all of the head coaches of all of the teams in each season of the league. The fans, the media, and the league's head coaches each get 1/3 of the vote distribution.

Winners

Furkan Korkmaz was the inaugural winner of the award.
Key
Player (X) Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one)
Nationality Nationality as registered by FIBA, player may hold more nationalities
† Indicates multiple award winners in the same season
‡ Denotes the club were BCL champions in the same season
Season Player Position Nationality Club Ref.
2016–17 Furkan Korkmaz Forward  Turkey Turkey Banvit [1]
2017–18 Arnoldas Kulboka Forward  Lithuania Italy SikeliArchivi Capo d'Orlando
2018–19 Tamir Blatt Guard  Israel Israel Hapoel Jerusalem [2]
2019–20 Carlos Alocén Guard  Spain Spain Zaragoza [3]
2020–21 Yoan Makoundou Forward  France France Cholet [4]
2021–22 Giordano Bortolani Shooting guard  Italy Italy NutriBullet Treviso [5]
2022–23 Sadık Emir Kabaca Power forward  Turkey Turkey Galatasaray Nef [6]

References

  1. ^ "Star Lineup revealed, Korkmaz named Best Young Player". Basketballcl.com. 30 April 2017. Retrieved 16 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Star Lineup revealed, Blatt Best Young Player". Basketballcl.com. May 5, 2019. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  3. ^ "Star Lineup revealed, Alocen Best Young Player". Basketball Champions League. 29 September 2020. Retrieved 8 October 2020.
  4. ^ "Star Lineup revealed, Makoundou Best Young Player". Basketball Champions League. 5 May 2021. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  5. ^ "Star Lineup revealed, Bortolani Best Young Player". Basketball Champions League. 7 May 2022. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  6. ^ "MVP Shorts headlines BCL season seven award winners". Basketball Champions League. 13 May 2022. Retrieved 14 May 2023.

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