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, 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.

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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. Korkmaz.jpg
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)
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]

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