Basketball Bundesliga Most Improved Player

The Basketball Bundesliga Most Improved Player was an award that was handed out yearly to the player who made the most progress in the regular season of the Basketball Bundesliga. The first time the award was handed out was in 2003, the first winner was Philip Zwiener. Since the 2015–16 season, the award is not handed out any more.

Winners

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Taylor Rochestie was the German League's Most Improved Player, in 2010
 
Dennis Schröder was the German League's Most Improved Player, in 2013
Key
Player (X) Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one)

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Season Player Position Nationality Team Ref(s)
Newcomer of the Year (2002–03 to 2009–10)
2002–03 Steffen Hamann PG   Germany Brose Baskets
2003–04 Demond Greene SG   Germany Bayer Giants Leverkusen
2004–05 Anton Gavel SG   Germany Gießen 46ers
2005–06 Andrew Wisniewski PG   United States Telekom Baskets Bonn
2006–07 Je'Kel Foster SG   United States EnBW Ludwigsburg
2007–08 Bobby Brown PG   United States ALBA Berlin
2008–09 Rocky Trice SG   United States BG Göttingen
2009–10 Taylor Rochestie SG   Montenegro BG Göttingen
Most Improved Player (2010–11 to 2014–15)
2010–11 Philip Zwiener SF   Germany TBB Trier [1]
2011–12 Maik Zirbes C   Germany TBB Trier [2]
2012–13 Dennis Schröder PG   Germany New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig [3]
2013–14 Danilo Barthel PF   Germany Fraport Skyliners [4]
2014–15 Johannes Voigtmann C   Germany Fraport Skyliners [5]

Awards won by nationality

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Country Total
  Germany 8
  United States 4
  Montenegro 1

Awards won by club

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Country Total
TBB Trier 2
Fraport Skyliners 2
BG Göttingen 2
New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig 1
Telekom Baskets Bonn 1
ALBA Berlin 1
EnBW Ludwigsburg 1
Gießen 46ers 1
Brose Baskets 1
Bayer Giants Leverkusen 1

References

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General

  • "German Beko BBL Most Improved Player". Realgm.com. Retrieved 2014-04-18.

Specific

  1. ^ "Basketball: Philip Zwiener zum "Most Improved Player" der Liga gewählt". 5vier.de (in German). 2011-04-12. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
  2. ^ "Bryant MVP, Leibenath 'coach van het jaar' in Bundesliga". Basketballbreak.nl. 2012-04-16. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
  3. ^ "Doppelte Ehrung für Braunschweiger Talent Schröder | Basketball - Mitteldeutsche Zeitung" (in German). Mz-web.de. Archived from the original on 2014-04-19. Retrieved 2014-04-18.
  4. ^ "Danilo Barthel named Beko BBL Most Improved Player of the Year". Sportando.com. 2014-04-23. Retrieved 2014-04-26.
  5. ^ "Beko BBL - Awards: MVP / Coach". www.beko-bbl.de. Archived from the original on 2015-04-29.
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