![]() ![]() VTB United League awards and honours |
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Individual awards |
The VTB United League Defensive Player of the Year is an annual VTB United League award given since the 2013–14 VTB United League season to the league's best defender.
Player (X) | Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one) |
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† | Indicates multiple award winners in the same season |
§ | Denotes the club were the league champions in the same season |
Season | Player | Pos. | Nationality | Team | Ref(s) |
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2013–14 | Sasha Kaun | C | ![]() |
CSKA Moscow§ | [1] |
2014–15 | Andrey Vorontsevich | PF | ![]() |
CSKA Moscow§ | [2] |
2015–16 | Kyle Hines | C | ![]() |
CSKA Moscow§ | [3] |
2016–17 | Nikita Kurbanov | SF | ![]() |
CSKA Moscow§ | [4] |
2017–18 | Dmitry Kulagin | SG | ![]() |
Lokomotiv Kuban | [5] |
2018–19 | Maurice Ndour | PF | ![]() |
UNICS | [6] |
2019–20 | Not awarded 1 | ||||
2020–21 | John Brown | F | ![]() |
UNICS | [7] |
2021–22 | Jordan Mickey | C / PF | ![]() |
Zenit Saint Petersburg§ | [8] |
2022–23 | Evgeny Baburin | SG | ![]() |
Pari Nizhny Novgorod | [9] |
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