VTB United League awards and honours |
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Individual awards |
In basketball, points are the sum of the score accumulated through free throws or field goals. [1] The VTB United League's scoring title is awarded to the player with the highest points per game average in a given regular season.
Season | Player | Pos. | Nationality | Team | Games | Total | PPG | Ref(s) |
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2009–10 [a] | Hasan Rizvić | C | Slovenia | Azovmash | 6 | 120 | 20.00 | [2] |
2010–11 [a] | Jamar Wilson | PG | Finland | Honka | 10 | 188 | 18.80 | [2] |
2011–12 [a] | Rawle Marshall | SF | Guyana | Astana | 15 | 252 | 16.80 | [2] |
2012–13 [a] | E.J. Rowland | PG | Bulgaria | VEF Rīga | 18 | 308 | 17.11 | [2] |
2013–14 | Cory Higgins | SG | United States | Triumph Lyubertsy | 16 | 344 | 21.50 | [2] |
2014–15 | Randy Culpepper | PG | United States | Krasny Oktyabr | 25 | 526 | 21.04 | [2] |
2015–16 | Keith Langford | SG | United States | UNICS | 28 | 588 | 21.00 | [2] |
2016–17 | Nick Minnerath | PF | United States | Avtodor Saratov | 22 | 512 | 23.27 | [2] |
2017–18 | Alexey Shved | G | Russia | Khimki | 19 | 424 | 22.32 | [3] |
2018–19 | Alexey Shved (2) | G | Russia | Khimki | 15 | 342 | 22.80 | [4] |
2019–20 | Not awarded [b] | |||||||
2020–21 | Marcus Keene | PG | United States | Kalev/Cramo | 22 | 440 | 20.00 | [5] |
2021–22 | Errick McCollum | G | United States | Lokomotiv Kuban | 17 | 336 | 19.8 | [6] |
2022–23 | Malik Newman | SG | United States | Avtodor Saratov | 23 | 434 | 18.9 | [7] |
a Unofficial award
b There was no awarding in the 2019–20, because the season was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic in Europe.
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