Euroscar#Award winners

The Euroscar was first awarded in 1979, and 21 of the first 23 winners were born in the Soviet Union or Yugoslavia. Thereafter, Dirk Nowitzki of Germany and Pau Gasol of Spain won eleven times between them, and {{as of|2022|lc=1}} an Eastern European has won the award only four times in the past twenty years.

File:Sabonis Lipofsky (1 of 1).JPG won six Euroscar Awards between 1984 and 1999.]]

The early winners of the Euroscar played primarily for EuroLeague clubs. Since Dražen Petrović won his third award in 1992, while playing for the New Jersey Nets, only four Euroscar winners (Sabonis in 1995, Gregor Fučka in 2000, Kirilenko in 2012, and Teodosić in 2016) played in a European league during the year they won the award, and only Fučka and Teodosić did not play in the NBA for any part of their award-winning years.{{cite web|url=http://www.nba.com/timberwolves/news/kirilenko-honored-euoscar-european-player-year-award |title=Kirilenko Honored With Euroscar European Player of the Year Award |publisher=NBA.com |author=Mark Remme |access-date=2015-03-09}}{{cite web|title=Pau Gasol is 2008 European Player of the Year|url=http://www.interbasket.net/news/669/2009/01/03/pau-gasol-is-2008-european-player-of-the-year/|publisher=Interbasket.net|access-date=2012-08-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522155643/http://www.interbasket.net/news/669/2009/01/pau-gasol-is-2008-european-player-of-the-year/|archive-date=2013-05-22|url-status=dead}}{{failed verification|date=March 2015}}

{{As of|2015}}, three players have won five or more Euroscars: Sabonis (six), Nowitzki (six), and Toni Kukoč (five). Nowitzki holds the record for most consecutive wins with five. Seven Euroscar winners have been inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame: Tkachenko, Sabonis, Petrović, Dražen Dalipagić, Dino Meneghin, Dragan Kićanović and Nikos Galis.{{cite web |url=http://www.halloffame.fiba.com/pages/eng/hof/indu/play/2007/p/openNodeIDs/1178/selNodeID/1178/list.html |title=FIBA Hall of Fame Players List |publisher=FIBA |access-date=2012-08-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110508064344/http://www.halloffame.fiba.com/pages/eng/hof/indu/play/2007/p/openNodeIDs/1178/selNodeID/1178/list.html |archive-date=2011-05-08 }} Sabonis, Petrović, Dalipagić, Galis and Meneghin are also in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/awards/hof.html|title=Basketball Hall of Fame Inductees|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|work=basketball-reference.com|access-date=2012-08-14}} One pair of brothers have each won the award: the Spaniards Pau and Marc Gasol. As of the 2019–20 basketball season, the Gasols, Antetokounmpo, Goran Dragić and Dončić are the only award winners still active in the NBA.{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/leaders/hof_prob_active.html |title=NBA & ABA Active Leaders and Records for Hall of Fame Probability|work=basketball-reference.com |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=2020-02-15}} {{As of|2020}}, Nowitzki and Antetokounmpo are also the only players to win the Euroscar Award and the NBA Most Valuable Player Award, albeit in different seasons.{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/n/nowitdi01.html |title=Dirk Nowitzki |work=basketball-reference.com |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=2015-03-09}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ballineurope.com/tag/euroscar-player-of-the-year/ |title=Dirk Nowitzki: "Angela Merkel is nice"; "I want to top Sabonis." |date=2012-01-30 |publisher=Ballin' Europe |access-date=2012-11-29}} Kukoč (1996, 1998), Nowitzki (2011), Parker (2007) and Pau Gasol (2009–10) all won NBA titles in their Euroscar-winning years; Kukoč and Gasol are the only players to do so more than once.{{cite web|url=https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/k/kukocto01.html |title=Toni Kukoc |work=basketball-reference.com |publisher=Sports Reference LLC |access-date=2015-03-11}}{{cite news|url=http://www.gazzetta.it/Sport_Vari/Basket/Estero/28-12-2009/europlayer-gazzetta-602467896186.shtml |title=Europlayer Gazzetta Pau Gasol |newspaper=La Gazzetta dello Sport |access-date=2012-08-15}}{{cite news|url=http://www.gazzetta.it/Sport_Vari/Basket/Usa/02-02-2011/gasol-europlayer-gazzetta-2010-8011242494.shtml |title=Gasol Europlayer Gazzetta 2010 |newspaper=La Gazzetta dello Sport |access-date=2012-08-15}} Dalipagić (1980) and Sabonis (1988) won Olympic gold medals and a Euroscar in the same year.

File:Toni Kukoc.jpg won five Euroscar Awards between 1990 and 1998.]]

File:Pau Gasol Santa Maria.jpg won three straight awards between 2008 and 2010. His brother Marc won the award in 2014.]]

File:Tony Parker 2011 02.jpg won the award in 2007 and 2013.]]

File:Petar Božić (cropped).jpg, 2016]]

When a winner has played for more than one club team in the calendar year of his award, all are listed.

General

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• {{cite web|title=Pau Gasol is 2008 European Player of the Year|url=http://www.interbasket.net/news/669/2009/01/03/pau-gasol-is-2008-european-player-of-the-year/|publisher=Interbasket.net|access-date=2012-08-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130522155643/http://www.interbasket.net/news/669/2009/01/pau-gasol-is-2008-european-player-of-the-year/|archive-date=2013-05-22|url-status=dead}}
• {{cite book|title=Ms.Tats and Mr.Wards. Basketball All Greats (e-book) |pages=142–143 |author=Bob Bergum |url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=605032977X|isbn=605032977X}}

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Category:Awards established in 1979