Basketball Champions League Best Young Player

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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.

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Voting criteria

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.

Winners

Furkan Korkmaz was the inaugural winner of the award. Korkmaz.jpg
Furkan Korkmaz was the inaugural winner of the award.
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Player (X)Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one)
NationalityNationality 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
SeasonPlayerPositionNationalityClubRef.
2016–17 Furkan Korkmaz Forward Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey Flag of Turkey.svg Banvit [1]
2017–18 Arnoldas Kulboka Forward Flag of Lithuania.svg  Lithuania Flag of Italy.svg SikeliArchivi Capo d'Orlando
2018–19 Tamir Blatt Guard Flag of Israel.svg  Israel Flag of Israel.svg Hapoel Jerusalem [2]
2019–20 Carlos Alocén Guard Flag of Spain.svg  Spain Flag of Spain.svg Zaragoza [3]
2020–21 Yoan Makoundou Forward Flag of France.svg  France Flag of France.svg Cholet [4]
2021–22 Giordano Bortolani Shooting guard Flag of Italy.svg  Italy Flag of Italy.svg NutriBullet Treviso [5]
2022–23 Sadık Emir Kabaca Power forward Flag of Turkey.svg  Turkey Flag of Turkey.svg Galatasaray Nef [6]
2023–24 Tidjane Salaün Small forward Flag of France.svg  France Flag of France.svg Cholet Basket [7]
2024–25 Nolan Traoré Point guard Flag of France.svg  France Flag of France.svg Saint-Quentin [8]

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.
  7. ↑ "MVP Shorts headlines BCL season seven award winners". Basketball Champions League . 13 May 2022. Retrieved 14 May 2023.
  8. ↑ "Back-to-back MVP Huertas headlines Season 9 award winners". Basketball Champions League. May 10, 2025. Retrieved May 10, 2025.
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