VTB United League Defensive Player of the Year

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The VTB United League Defensive Player of the Year is an annual VTB United League award given since the 2013–14 VTB United League season to the league's best defender.

Winners

Key
Player (X) Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one)
† Indicates multiple award winners in the same season
§ Denotes the club were the league champions in the same season
Season Player Pos. Nationality Team Ref(s)
2013–14 Sasha Kaun C Russia CSKA Moscow§ [1]
2014–15 Andrey Vorontsevich PF Russia CSKA Moscow§ [2]
2015–16 Kyle Hines C United States CSKA Moscow§ [3]
2016–17 Nikita Kurbanov SF Russia CSKA Moscow§ [4]
2017–18 Dmitry Kulagin SG Russia Lokomotiv Kuban [5]
2018–19 Maurice Ndour PF Senegal UNICS [6]
2019–20 Not awarded 1
2020–21 John Brown F United States UNICS [7]
2021–22 Jordan Mickey C / PF United States Zenit Saint Petersburg§ [8]
2022–23 Evgeny Baburin SG Russia Pari Nizhny Novgorod [9]
2023–24 Vince Hunter C United States Zenit Saint Petersburg [10]
2024–25 Antonius Cleveland SF United States Lokomotiv Kuban [11]

Notes:

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

References

  1. ^ "Alexander Kaun named Defensive Player of the Year". VTB-League.com. April 23, 2014. Archived from the original on April 26, 2014. Retrieved April 25, 2014.
  2. ^ "History and records - VTB League". Archived from the original on 2014-04-17. Retrieved 2014-04-22.
  3. ^ "Kyle Hines Wins Defensive Player Of The Year". Archived from the original on 2016-06-01. Retrieved 2016-06-10.
  4. ^ "Nikita Kurbanov Wins Defensive Player Of The Year". Vtb-league.com. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
  5. ^ "League Announces Individual Awards At Gala". vtb-league.com. 9 June 2018. Retrieved 29 June 2018.
  6. ^ "Maurice Ndour Wins Defensive Player Of The Year". VTB United League. 24 May 2019. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
  7. ^ "John Brown III named 2020/21 Defensive Player of The Year". VTB United League. 6 May 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
  8. ^ "Джордан Мики – лучший защищающийся игрок в сезоне 2021/22" (in Russian). VTB United League. 8 May 2022. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
  9. ^ "Evgenii Baburin is the Defensive Player of the Year!". VTB United League. 2 April 2023. Retrieved 2 April 2023.
  10. ^ "Vince Hunter becomes the Defensive Player of the Year | VTB United League - Official Website". vtb-league.com. Retrieved 14 April 2025.
  11. ^ "Antonius Cleveland is Defensive Player of the Year | VTB United League - Official Website". vtb-league.com. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
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