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The FIBA Basketball World Cup Most Valuable Player is an award, that is given by FIBA, to the Most Valuable Player of the FIBA Basketball World Cup. The inaugural award was handed out in 1950, to Oscar Furlong.
Denotes player whose team won that years tournament | |
* | Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |
** | Inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame |
*** | Inducted into both the Naismith and FIBA Halls of Fame |
Denotes player who is still active | |
Player (X) | Denotes the number of times the player had been named MVP at that time |
Team (X) | Denotes the number of times a player from this team had won at that time |
Year | Player | Position | Team | Ref. |
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1950 | Oscar Furlong** | Argentina | [1] | |
1954 | Kirby Minter | United States | [1] | |
1959 | Amaury Pasos** | Brazil | [1] | |
1963 | Wlamir Marques** | Brazil (2) | [1] | |
1967 | Ivo Daneu** | Yugoslavia | [1] | |
1970 | Sergei Belov*** | Soviet Union | [1] | |
1974 | Dragan Kićanović** | Yugoslavia (2) | [1] | |
1978 | Dražen Dalipagić*** | Yugoslavia (3) | [1] | |
1982 | Doc Rivers | United States (2) | [1] | |
1986 | Dražen Petrović*** | Yugoslavia (4) | [1] | |
1990 | Toni Kukoč*** | Yugoslavia (5) | [1] | |
1994 | Shaquille O'Neal*** | United States (3) | [1] | |
1998 | Dejan Bodiroga | FR Yugoslavia | [1] | |
2002 | Dirk Nowitzki* | Germany | [1] | |
2006 | Pau Gasol* | Spain | [2] | |
2010 | Kevin Durant | United States (4) | [3] | |
2014 | Kyrie Irving | United States (5) | [4] | |
2019 | Ricky Rubio | Spain (2) | [5] | |
2023 | Dennis Schröder | Germany (2) | [6] |
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