LBA Most Valuable Player

The Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual award of the 1st-tier professional basketball league in Italy, the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA), given since the 1993–94 season, to the league's most valuable player in a given regular season.

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
Season Player Pos. Nationality Team Ref(s)
1993–94 Carlton Myers SG  Italy[a] Scavolini Pesaro
1994–95 Stefano Rusconi C  Italy Benetton Treviso
1995–96 Henry Williams SG  United States Benetton Treviso
1996–97 Carlton Myers (2×) SG  Italy[a] Teamsystem Bologna
1997–98 Sasha Danilović SG/SF FR Yugoslavia Kinder Bologna
1998–99 Vincenzo Esposito SG  Italy Termal Imola
1999–00 Vincenzo Esposito (2×) SG  Italy Lineltex Imola
2000–01 Manu Ginóbili SG  Argentina Kinder Bologna
2001–02 Manu Ginóbili (2×) SG  Argentina Kinder Bologna
2002–03 Massimo Bulleri PG/SG  Italy Benetton Treviso
2003–04 Gianluca Basile SG  Italy Skipper Bologna
2004–05 Massimo Bulleri (2×) PG/SG  Italy Benetton Treviso
2005–06 Lynn Greer PG/SG  United States Carpisa Napoli
2006–07 Terrell McIntyre PG  United States Montepaschi Siena
2007–08 Danilo Gallinari SF/PF  Italy Armani Jeans Milano
2008–09 Terrell McIntyre (2×) PG  United States Montepaschi Siena
2009–10 Romain Sato SG/SF Central African Republic Montepaschi Siena
2010–11 Omar Thomas SG/SF  United States Air Avellino
2011–12 Bo McCalebb PG  North Macedonia[b] Montepaschi Siena [1]
2012–13 Luigi Datome SF/PF  Italy Acea Roma [2]
2013–14 Drake Diener SG  United States Banco di Sardegna Sassari [3]
2014–15 Tony Mitchell SF  United States Dolomiti Energia Trento [4]
2015–16 James Nunnally SF  United States Sidigas Avellino [5]
2016–17 Marcus Landry SF  United States Brescia Leonessa [6]
2017–18 Jason Rich G  United States Sidigas Avellino [7]
2018–19 Drew Crawford SF  United States Vanoli Cremona [8]
2019–20 Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2020–21 Stefano Tonut G  Italy Reyer Venezia [9]
2021–22 Amedeo Della Valle G  Italy Basket Brescia Leonessa
2022–23 Colbey Ross PG  United States Openjobmetis Varese [10]
2023–24 Marco Belinelli SG  Italy Virtus Bologna
2024–25 Miro Bilan C  Croatia Pallacanestro Brescia [11]

Players with most awards

Player Editions Notes
Manu Ginóbili 2 2001, 2002
Terrell McIntyre 2 2007, 2009
Massimo Bulleri 2 2003, 2005
Carlton Myers 2 1994, 1997
Vincenzo Esposito 2 1999, 2000

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b Carlton Myers played for the Italian national team, and was raised in the United Kingdom.
  2. ^ Bo McCalebb played for the Macedonian national team, and was born in the USA.

References

  1. ^ "McCalebb Named MVP in Leading Italian Squad to League Title". Unoprivateers.com. 2011-06-19. Retrieved 2014-06-19.
  2. ^ "Azzurri's Datome named MVP". Fiba.com. Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved 2014-06-19.
  3. ^ "Serie A, Drake Diener l'Mvp della stagione". Corrieredellosport.it. Archived from the original on 2014-08-08. Retrieved 2014-06-19.
  4. ^ "Tony Mitchell MVP della Serie A, una grande vittoria per il Basketacazzo". Basket Acazzo. 2015-05-08. Retrieved 2015-06-15.
  5. ^ "The Legabasket awards with Nunnally being the MVP". Eurohoops. 5 May 2016. Retrieved 5 May 2016.
  6. ^ "Marcus Landry named Serie A MVP. Vincenzo Esposito is Coach of the Year". Sportando.com. 8 May 2016. Retrieved 9 May 2016.
  7. ^ "Jason Rich of Scandone Avellino named Serie A MVP of the season". Sportando.com. 9 May 2018. Retrieved 9 May 2018.
  8. ^ Carchia, Emiliano (13 May 2019). "Andrew Crawford eletto MVP della stagione" [Andrew Crawford named MVP of the season]. Sportando (in Italian). Retrieved 13 May 2019.
  9. ^ "LBA Awards: Stefano Tonut named MVP and Best Italian Player, Kyle Hines is the Best Defender". Sportando. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  10. ^ "Colbey Ross named 2022-2023 Italian LBA Serie A MVP". Sportando. 11 May 2023.
  11. ^ "LBA Awards - I vincitori dell'edizione 2025: A Miro Bilan il titolo MVP "Dino Meneghin Trophy"". legabasket.it (in Italian). 2025-05-21. Retrieved 2025-06-17.
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