The FIBA Intercontinental Cup Most Valuable Player (MVP) Award is the award bestowed to the player that is deemed to be the most valuable player" of the FIBA Intercontinental Cup official world basketball club championship. The winner of the award is decided by FIBA and is given after the final of the competition, usually to a player on the winning team.

The first MVP award was given in 1977 to Walt Szczerbiak, and has been given to eleven other players since. No individual player has won the award more than once.

Award winners

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Vassilis Spanoulis was the FIBA Intercontinental Cup's MVP in 2013.
Sergio Llull was the FIBA Intercontinental Cup's MVP in 2015.
YearName Position NationalityClubRef.
1977Walt Szczerbiak Small forward  United StatesSpain Real Madrid[2]
1987Epi Small forward  SpainSpain FC Barcelona
2013Vassilis Spanoulis Point guard  GreeceGreece Olympiacos[3][4][5]
2014Nicolás Laprovíttola Point guard  ArgentinaBrazil Flamengo[6][7]
2015Sergio Llull Guard  SpainSpain Real Madrid
2016Zach Graham Guard/Forward  United StatesVenezuela Guaros de Lara[8]
2017Mike Tobey Center  United States[lower-alpha 1]Spain Canarias[9]
2019 Jordan Theodore Point guard  North Macedonia[lower-alpha 2] Greece AEK[10]
2020Marcelinho Huertas Point guard  BrazilSpain Canarias[11]
2021Vítor Benite Point guard  BrazilSpain San Pablo Burgos[12]
2022Luke Martínez Guard  Mexico[lower-alpha 3]Brazil Flamengo[13]
2023 (I) Bruno Fitipaldo Point guard  Uruguay[lower-alpha 4] Spain Canarias [14]
2023 (II) David Jackson Shooting guard  United States Brazil Franca [15]

Statistics

By club

CB Canarias holds the record for most players with a MVP award, with 3.

Nationality Selections
Spain Canarias 3
Spain Real Madrid 2
Brazil Flamengo 2

By nationality

Players from the United States have won the most awards, with three players playing under the American nationality winning MVP.

Nationality Selections
 United States 4[lower-alpha 5]
 Brazil 2
 Spain 2
 Argentina 1
 Greece 1
 North Macedonia 1
 Mexico 1
 Uruguay 1

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ Mike Tobey became a naturalised Slovenian citizen four years later, in 2021.
  2. ↑ Jordan Theodore was born in the United States, but became a naturalised Macedonian citizen.
  3. ↑ Luke Martínez was born in the United States and also holds the American nationality.
  4. ↑ Bruno Fitipaldo also holds the Italian nationality.
  5. ↑ Excluding 2019 winner Jordan Theodore (Macedonian) and 2022 winner Luke Martinez (Mexico).

References

  1. ↑ FIBA.basketball (12 December 2022). "Greek legend Spanoulis to hand MVP award in Cairo". FIBA.basketball. FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 10 January 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  2. ↑ "Intercontinental Cup 1977". www.linguasport.com. Retrieved 12 February 2023.
  3. ↑ FIBA.basketball (12 December 2022). "Greek legend Spanoulis to hand MVP award in Cairo". FIBA.basketball. FIBA.basketball. Retrieved 10 January 2024.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  4. ↑ FoxSports.com O Herói e o Vilão de Olympiacos 86 x 69 Pinheiros, pelo Mundial de Clubes. Archived 2016-01-16 at the Wayback Machine (in Portuguese)
  5. ↑ Gazetaesportiva.net Olympiacos bate Pinheiros e vence Copa Intercontinental. (in Portuguese)
  6. ↑ Fla derruba o Maccabi e fatura o maior título de sua história no basquete. (in Portuguese)
  7. ↑ Con Nicolás Laprovittola como MVP, Flamengo se consagró campeón Intercontinental. (in Spanish)
  8. ↑ "Guaros de Lara win Intercontinental Cup, 74-69 vs Skyliners Frankfurt". Sportando.com. 18 September 2016. Archived from the original on 18 September 2016. Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  9. ↑ "Iberostar Tenerife crowned 2017 Intercontinental Cup champions". championsleague.basketball. 24 September 2017. Retrieved 10 May 2018.
  10. ↑ AEK beat Flamengo in Final to win FIBA Intercontinental Cup.
  11. ↑ "MVP Huertas hails Tenerife's team spirit, coaching staff". FIBA.com. 10 February 2020. Retrieved 21 November 2020.
  12. ↑ "Vitor Benite wins MVP of the 2021 FIBA Intercontinental Cup after San Pablo Burgos' victory". FIBA. 7 February 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
  13. ↑ "MVP Martinez: Intercontinental Cup title 10 months in the making for Flamengo". FIBA. 13 February 2021. Retrieved 13 February 2021.
  14. ↑ "Instant offense off the bench: Bruno Fitipaldo named MVP of the FIBA Intercontinental Cup". FIBA.basketball. 12 February 2023. Retrieved 13 February 2023.
  15. ↑ "David Jackson named MVP of FIBA Intercontinental Cup Singapore 2023". FIBA.basketball. 24 September 2023. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
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