Greek Basket League awards

Last updated March 03, 2024

Greek Basket League awards are the yearly individual awards that are given by the 1st-tier professional basketball league in Greece, the Greek Basket League.

Since the 2014–15 season, the awards are voted on by the fans online, whereas previously they were not. The voting is currently decided by a ratio of 40% by the fans and the media, and 60% by the coaches and the captains of each of the teams of the Greek Basket League. However, the Most Popular Player and Women's Favorite Player awards are decided exclusively by the fan's online voting.

MVP

*	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 ^[1]	Club
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

Regular Season Performance Index Rating Leader (2014–15 & 2015–16)

This list includes the regular season leaders in Performance Index Rating (PIR) of the Greek Basket League, of the 2014–15 season and the 2015–16 season.

In the 2014–15 and 2015–16 seasons, the Greek Basket League's regular season PIR leader was considered to be an unofficial statistical "MVP award", that was based solely on this 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.

Source: widgets.baskethotel.com/site/esake

Season	Regular Season PIR Leader	Team
2014–15	/ Sasha Vezenkov	Aris
2015–16	Okaro White	Aris

Finals MVP

*	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	Finals MVP	Club
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	Panagiotis Fasoulas**	PAOK

Best Young Player

Season	Player	Club
1998–99	Kostas Tsartsaris	Near East
1999–00	Dimos Dikoudis	AEK
2000–01	Antonis Fotsis	Panathinaikos
2001–02	Nikos Zisis	AEK
2002–03	Vassilis Spanoulis	Maroussi

Defensive Player of the Year

Season	Player	Club
2006–07	Michalis Pelekanos	Panellinios
2007–08	Dimitris Diamantidis	Panathinaikos
2008–09	Dimitris Diamantidis (2×)	Panathinaikos

Most Improved Player

Season	Player	Club
2003–04	Vassilis Spanoulis	Maroussi
2005–06	Loukas Mavrokefalidis	PAOK
2009–10	Kostas Kaimakoglou	Maroussi
2010–11	/ Nick Calathes	Panathinaikos
2011–12	Georgios Printezis	Olympiacos

Best Coach

Season	Coach	Club
1996–97	Dušan Ivković	Olympiacos
1997–98	/ Lefteris Subotić	Panathinaikos
1998–99	/ Lefteris Subotić (2×)	Panathinaikos
1999–00	Željko Obradović	Panathinaikos
2000–01	Argyris Pedoulakis	Peristeri

Most Spectacular Player

Season	Player	Team
Most Spectacular Player
2012–13	Brent Petway	Rethymno
2015–16	Okaro White	Aris
2016–17 ^[2]	Mike James	Panathinaikos
2017–18	Thanasis Antetokounmpo	Panathinaikos
2018–19	Thanasis Antetokounmpo ^[3] (2×)	Panathinaikos

Most Popular Player

The Most Popular Player Award is given to the player that is voted as being the most popular player in the league.

Season	Player	Team
Most Popular Player
2014–15	Vassilis Spanoulis	Olympiacos
2015–16 ^[4]	Dimitris Diamantidis	Panathinaikos
2016–17 ^[5]	Vassilis Spanoulis (2×)	Olympiacos
2017–18	/ Nick Calathes	Panathinaikos
2018–19	/ Nick Calathes (2×)	Panathinaikos

Women's Favorite Player

The Women's Favorite Player Award is given to the player that is voted as being the favorite player in the league, as chosen by female voters.

Season	Player	Team
Women's Favorite Player
2014–15	Georgios Printezis	Olympiacos

Greek League Best Five

In some years there are actually 6 players selected to the team, due to the result of ties in the voting.

Season	Player	Team
Best Five
2003–04	/ Roderick Blakney	Maroussi
2003–04	Nikos Chatzis	AEK
2003–04	Dimitris Diamantidis	Iraklis
2003–04	Kostas Tsartsaris	Panathinaikos
2003–04	Lazaros Papadopoulos	Iraklis

Season	Player	Team
Best Five
2004–05	Jaka Lakovič	Panathinaikos
2004–05	Vassilis Spanoulis	Panathinaikos
2004–05	Dimitris Diamantidis (2×)	Panathinaikos
2004–05	Pete Mickeal	Makedonikos
2004–05	Nikos Oikonomou	Panionios
2004–05	Travis Watson	Panionios

For a listing of all of the Greek Basket League Pentad Best Five and Greek League Deka Best 10 teams,

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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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[2] Πιο θεαματικός παίκτης της Stoiximan.gr Basket League ο Τζέιμς (in Greek).

[3] Basket League: Πιο θεαματικός ξανά ο Θανάσης Αντετοκούνμπο (in Greek).

[4] Ο Δ. Διαμαντίδης πιο δημοφιλής παίκτης της Basket League ΣΚΡΑΤΣ (in Greek).

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