Greek Basket League MVP

Last updated July 09, 2024

The Greek Basket League (GBL) MVP is the yearly MVP award that is awarded by the 1st-tier professional basketball league in Greece, the Greek Basket League.

Since the 2014–15 season, the Greek Basket League MVP award is voted on by the fans online, whereas previously it was not. The voting is currently decided by a ratio of 40% by the fans and the media, and 60% by the head coaches and the captains of each of the 14 teams of the Greek Basket League.^[1]^[2]

Since the 2010–11 season, the Greek Basket League's PIR leader is considered to be an unofficial statistical MVP award, that is based solely on the Performance Index Rating (PIR) statistic. This is not to be confused with the official Greek Basket League MVP award, which is an award that is based on a voting process, and that is awarded at the end of each season's playoffs.

Greek Basket League MVP award winners

*	Member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
**	Member of the FIBA Hall of Fame
***	Member of both the Naismith and FIBA Halls of Fame

Season	MVP ^[3]	Club	Ref.
1987–88	/ Nikos Galis**	Aris
1988–89	/ Nikos Galis** (2×)	Aris
1989–90	/ Nikos Galis** (3×)	Aris
1990–91	/ Nikos Galis** (4×)	Aris
1991–92	/ Nikos Galis** (5×)	Aris
1992–93	Fanis Christodoulou	Panionios
1993–94	Panos Fasoulas**	Olympiacos
1994–95	Panos Fasoulas** (2×)	Olympiacos
1995–96	Georgios Sigalas	Olympiacos
1996–97	David Rivers	Olympiacos
1997–98	/ Peja Stojaković	PAOK
1998–99	Dejan Bodiroga	Panathinaikos
1999–00	Željko Rebrača	Panathinaikos
2000–01	Alphonso Ford	Peristeri
2001–02	Dimos Dikoudis	AEK
2002–03	Fragiskos Alvertis	Panathinaikos
2003–04	Dimitris Diamantidis	Iraklis
2004–05	Jaka Lakovič	Panathinaikos
2005–06	Dimitris Diamantidis (2×)	Panathinaikos	^[4]
2005–06	Vassilis Spanoulis	Panathinaikos
2006–07	Dimitris Diamantidis (3×)	Panathinaikos
2007–08	Dimitris Diamantidis (4×)	Panathinaikos
2008–09	Vassilis Spanoulis (2×)	Panathinaikos
2009–10	Mike Batiste	Panathinaikos
2010–11	Dimitris Diamantidis (5×)	Panathinaikos
2011–12	Vassilis Spanoulis (3×)	Olympiacos
2012–13	Stéphane Lasme	Panathinaikos
2013–14	Dimitris Diamantidis (6×)	Panathinaikos
2014–15	/ Sasha Vezenkov	Aris
2015–16	Vassilis Spanoulis (4×)	Olympiacos	^[5]^[6]^[7]
2016–17	/ Nick Calathes	Panathinaikos	^[8]
2017–18	Nick Calathes (2×)	Panathinaikos
2018–19	/ Nick Calathes (3×)	Panathinaikos	^[9]^[10]
2019–20	Not awarded¹
2020–21	Ioannis Papapetrou	Panathinaikos
2021–22	/ Sasha Vezenkov (2×)	Olympiacos
2022–23	/ Sasha Vezenkov (3×)	Olympiacos	^[11]
2023–24	Kostas Sloukas	Panathinaikos	^[12]

Notes:

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

Multiple Greek Basket League MVP award winners

*	Member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
**	Member of the FIBA Hall of Fame
***	Member of both the Naismith and FIBA Halls of Fame

Player	Number of awards
Dimitris Diamantidis	6
/ Nikos Galis**	5
Vassilis Spanoulis	4
/ Nick Calathes	3
/ Sasha Vezenkov	3
Panos Fasoulas**	2

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References

External links

Official Greek Basket League Site (in Greek)
Official Greek Basket League YouTube Channel (in Greek)
Official Hellenic Basketball Federation Site (in Greek)
Basketblog.gr (in Greek)
GreekBasketball.gr (in Greek)

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