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Club Executive of the Year: Marco Baldi, Alba Berlin

Jun 30, 2009

The 2008-09 Euroleague season proved to be a defining moment for basketball in at least one great city: Berlin. The arc of the sport's acceptance in the German capital has...

Alexander Gomelskiy Coach of the Year: Dusko Vujosevic

Jun 26, 2009

The Euroleague is proud to announce that Partizan Belgrade head coach Dusko Vujosevic is the Alexander Gomelskiy Coach of the Year Trophy winner for the 2008-09 season. The...

Final Four MVP: Vassilis Spanoulis, Panathinaikos

May 03, 2009

Panathinaikos Athens’s star guard Vassilis Spanoulis was selected Euroleague Basketball’s 2009 Final Four MVP after leading the Greens to a 73-71 victory over defending...

Partizan's Velickovic takes Rising Star Trophy

Apr 23, 2009

A fun-to-watch forward who brought his team close to the Final Four for a second consecutive year, Novica Velickovic of Partizan Belgrade, has been rewarded with the 2009...

Diamantidis of Panathinaikos, Best Defender yet again

Apr 22, 2009

Thanks to his rare ability to lead when opposing teams have the ball, Panathinaikos guard Dimitris Diamantidis has been voted winner of the Best Defender Trophy by Euroleague...

Rakocevic is Ford Trophy winner again

Apr 21, 2009

The Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy, awarded annually to the Euroleague player with the most points averaged over a minimum number of games not including the Final Four, has...

March/April MVP: Erazem Lorbek, CSKA Moscow

Apr 13, 2009

A former Euroleague Rising Star Trophy winner, all grown up now at age 25, has done the seemingly impossible during March and April - made defending champion CSKA Moscow look...

Playoffs Game 5 MVP: Ersan Ilyasova, Regal FC Barcelona

Apr 10, 2009

A player who started the season as the first monthly MVP has ended it in the best way possible, earning Quarterfinal Playoffs, Game 5 MVP honors to send his team to the Final...

Quarterfinal Playoffs Game 4 MVP: Terrell McIntyre, Montepaschi Siena

Apr 03, 2009

His team may not have reached the Final Four, but one of the Euroleague's newest superstars went out of the playoffs with a bang in Game 4 on Thursday. Point guard Terrell...

Playoffs Game 3 co-MVPs: Ramunas Siskauskas, Matjaz Smodis of CSKA

Apr 01, 2009

Defending champion CSKA Moscow became the first team to make it to the 2009 Final Four. A pair of CSKA's signature superstars, Ramunas Siskauskas and Matjaz Smodis, rose to...

Playoffs, Game 2 MVP: Erazem Lorbek, CSKA Moscow

Mar 27, 2009

For its second playoff home win in as many games, CSKA Moscow relied not on one of its several signature superstars on Thursday, but rather on a newcomer to its lineup this...

Playoffs, Game 1 MVP: Romain Sato, Montepaschi Siena

Mar 25, 2009

Although his team couldn't win the first battle, Romain Sato of Montepaschi Siena showed the way to possible victory in the war of the Quarterfinal Playoffs with an individual...

Top 16 Week 6 MVP: Mike Batiste, Panathinaikos

Mar 13, 2009

Panathinaikos not only became its Top 16 group champion but one of his signature players earned weekly MVP honors, too. Mike Batiste led Panathinaikos to a 103-95 overtime...

Top 16 Week 5 co-MVPs: Charles Gaines, Maccabi Electra and Mike Hall, AJ Milano

Mar 06, 2009

A pair of forwards, Mike Hall of Armani Jeans Milano and Charles Gaines of Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv, shared Top 16 Week 5 co-MVP honors with performance index ratings of 33...

February MVP: Novica Velickovic, Partizan Belgrade

Mar 02, 2009

Novica Velickovic is Euroleague Basketball's choice as MVP for February. In a season-defining month that produced five teams with 3-0 records, only Partizan had the chance to...

Top 16 Week 4 MVP: Tiago Splitter, Tau Ceramica

Feb 27, 2009

A triumphant return from personal misfortune and family tragedy saw a signature Euroleague superstar earn MVP honors for Top 16, Week 4. All-Euroleague center Tiago Splitter...

Top 16 Week 3 MVP: Ersan Ilyasova, FC Barcelona

Feb 13, 2009

In a week full of great individual performances, one of the Euroleague's fastest-rising stars sparked his team to an important victory to become MVP of Top 16 Week 3. Regal FC...

Top 16 Week 2 MVP: Novica Velickovic, Partizan

Feb 06, 2009

One of the top young talents on the international basketball stage was at his very best when his team needed him most in Week 2 of the Top 16. Not only did Partizan forward...

January MVP: Igor Rakocevic, Tau Ceramica

Feb 02, 2009

In an era when teams rely less and less on scoring stars, it might seem more than enough to state that Euroleague Basketball's choice as January MVP, Igor Rakocevic of Tau...

Top 16 Week 1 tri-MVPs: Pekovic, Fischer, Eliyahu

Jan 30, 2009

The Top 16 started with a rare occurrence in the weekly race for the best individual performance rating - tri-MVPs! For just the fourth time all decade, three players tied for...

Week 10 MVP: Oguz Savas, Fenerbahce Ulker

Jan 16, 2009

Not since he was a Euroleague rookie at 17 years old had Fenerbahce Ulker center Oguz Savas gone 10 games without starting, but in Thursday's last regular season game of the...

Week 9 MVP: Immanuel McElroy, Alba Berlin

Jan 09, 2009

Not only did his outstanding performance allow Alba Berlin to register its first Euroleague road win this season and put one foot in the Top 16, but Immanuel McElroy played...

December MVP: Lior Eliyahu, Maccabi Electra

Dec 22, 2008

It was an unpredictable situation for one of the dominant teams in Euroleague history. Five years had passed since the last time Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv faced a losing record...

Week 8 MVP: Sani Becirovic, Lottomatica Roma

Dec 19, 2008

Lottomatica Roma not only advanced to the Top 16 with a tense overtime victory on Thursday, but its star guard also became the Week 8 MVP. No sooner did Sani Becirovic receive...

Regular Season Week 7 MVP: Rawle Marshall, Cibona

Dec 12, 2008

Rawle Marshall not only helped Cibona to register a critical win against Le Mans, but he also registered the best individual performance in Week 6 with a 34 index.

Week 6 MVP: Lior Eliyahu, Maccabi Electra Tel Aviv

Dec 05, 2008

The best individual performance until now in the 2008-09 Euroleague came at the perfect time for his team and crowned forward Lior Eliyahu of Maccabi Electra the MVP for Week...

November MVP: Sani Becirovic, Lottomatica Roma

Dec 01, 2008

A player who has withstood a roller-coaster career by means of his strong character, Sani Becirovic of Lottomatica Roma, has been chosen the MVP for November by Euroleague...

Week 5 MVP: Edu Hernandez-Sonseca, DKV Joventut

Nov 28, 2008

Appropriately enough, one of the most thrilling games so far this regular season came with the best individual performance of Week 5. Eduardo Hernandez-Sonseca came off the...

Week 4 MVP: Mike Hall, AJ Milano

Nov 14, 2008

His team was on the verge of one of the biggest upsets of the season, but when it didn't happen, Armani Jeans Milano got the consolation prize of seeing Mike Hall earn MVP...

Week 3 MVP: Igor Rakocevic, Tau Ceramica

Nov 07, 2008

One of world basketball's best shooters has outdone himself at the start of the Euroleague season. Tau Ceramica guard Igor Rakocevic, a former Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy...

October MVP: Ersan Ilyasova, Regal FC Barcelona

Nov 03, 2008

Although it may seem contradictory, the best testimony for the first monthly MVP of the 2008-09 Euroleague season is how little he played while pacing his team to early...

Week 2 MVP: Pops Mensah-Bonsu, DKV Joventut

Oct 31, 2008

A newcomer playing in just his second Euroleague game ever, Pops Mensah-Bonsu of DKV Joventut, earned the MVP honor for Week 2 of the regular season with a competition-best...

Week 1 MVP: Will McDonald, Tau

Oct 24, 2008

The very first game of the 2008-09 Euroleague season was remarkable for another reason: it also boasted the single best individual performance in all of Week 1. Will McDonald...

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