VTB United League Defensive Player of the Year

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The VTB United League Defensive Player of the Year is an annual VTB United League award given since the 2013–14 VTB United League season to the league's best defender.

Winners[edit]

Key
Player (X) Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one)
† Indicates multiple award winners in the same season
§ Denotes the club were the league champions in the same season
Season Player Pos. Nationality Team Ref(s)
2013–14 Sasha Kaun C  Russia CSKA Moscow§ [1]
2014–15 Andrey Vorontsevich PF  Russia CSKA Moscow§ [2]
2015–16 Kyle Hines C  United States CSKA Moscow§ [3]
2016–17 Nikita Kurbanov SF  Russia CSKA Moscow§ [4]
2017–18 Dmitry Kulagin SG  Russia Lokomotiv Kuban [5]
2018–19 Maurice Ndour PF  Senegal UNICS [6]
2019–20 Not awarded 1
2020–21 John Brown F  United States UNICS [7]
2021–22 Jordan Mickey C / PF  United States Zenit Saint Petersburg§ [8]
2022–23 Evgeny Baburin SG  Russia Pari Nizhny Novgorod [9]

Notes:

^1 There was no awarding in the 2019–20, because the season was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic in Europe.

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Alexander Kaun named Defensive Player of the Year". VTB-League.com. April 23, 2014. Archived from the original on April 26, 2014. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  2. ^ "History and records - VTB League". Archived from the original on 2014-04-17. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
  3. ^ "Kyle Hines Wins Defensive Player Of The Year". Archived from the original on 2016-06-01. Retrieved 2016-06-10.
  4. ^ "Nikita Kurbanov Wins Defensive Player Of The Year". Vtb-league.com. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
  5. ^ "League Announces Individual Awards At Gala". vtb-league.com. 9 June 2018. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  6. ^ "Maurice Ndour Wins Defensive Player Of The Year". VTB United League. 24 May 2019. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  7. ^ "John Brown III named 2020/21 Defensive Player of The Year". VTB United League. 6 May 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  8. ^ "Джордан Мики – лучший защищающийся игрок в сезоне 2021/22" (in Russian). VTB United League. 8 May 2022. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
  9. ^ "Evgenii Baburin is the Defensive Player of the Year!". VTB United League. 2 April 2023. Retrieved 2 April 2023.

External links[edit]

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