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The Basketball Champions League (BCL) Best Young Player in an annual award of the Basketball Champions League. The Basketball Champions League is, along with the EuroCup, one of the two secondary level European-wide professional club basketball leagues in Europe. Only players who are aged 22 and under qualify for the award. The award is given to the under age 22 player that the Basketball Champions League deems to be its best young player of the season. The award is given by FIBA. The award began with the league's inaugural 2016–17 season.
The Basketball Champions League Best Young Player 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.
Player (X) | Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one) |
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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 |
Vassilis Spanoulis, also commonly known as Bill Spanoulis, or Billy Spanoulis is a Greek professional basketball coach and former player, who was most recently the head coach of the pro club Peristeri Athens of the Greek Basket League, as well as the head coach of the senior men's Greek national team. Spanoulis, who during his playing days was nicknamed "Kill Bill", is widely regarded as one of the best European basketball players of all time. During his professional club playing career, Spanoulis was a FIBA World Club Championship champion, a Triple Crown winner, a three-time EuroLeague champion and five-time EuroLeague finalist, a FIBA Europe League finalist, a seven-time Greek Basket League champion and thirteen-time Greek Basket League finalist, and a four-time Greek Cup winner and nine-time Greek Cup finalist. In four seasons with Panathinaikos Athens, Spanoulis won eight club championship titles, and in eleven seasons with Olympiacos Piraeus, he won seven club championship titles.
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