Basketball Bundesliga Most Improved Player

Basketball Bundesliga awards, honours, and stats leaders

Individual awards

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

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

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

External links

German League official website Archived 2009-09-25 at the Wayback Machine (in German)

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