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.


Basketball Bundesliga awards, honours, and stats leaders
Individual awards

Winners
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 nationality 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
Country Total
 Germany 8
 United States 4
 Montenegro 1

Awards won by club
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

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.
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