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FIBA Europe Young Men's Player of the Year Award

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The FIBA Europe Young Men's Player of the Year Award was an annual Player of the Year (POY) award that was given by FIBA Europe, the European division of FIBA, the international governing body of the sport of basketball, to the best basketball player with European citizenship, aged 22 and under of the year. The inaugural award was given out in the year 2005 to Nikos Zisis of Greece. The vote was decided upon by a panel of basketball experts and also by fan voting.

The candidates included all European basketball players aged 22 and under in the world, regardless of whether they played in Europe, or anywhere else in the world. Also, the candidates included all players, from both professional sports leagues such as the NBA or the EuroLeague, etc. (including from both senior and junior level sports clubs) and amateur status, such as the NCAA's college basketball competitions, etc. The FIBA Europe Young Men's Player of the Year Award was the junior European Player of the Year award (only for players aged 22 and under) that was given by FIBA, and is not to be confused with the senior men's award, which was the FIBA Europe Men's Player of the Year Award.

The award was a calendar year by calendar year award, and was not a season by season award.

Award winners

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FIBA Europe Young Men's Player of the Year
SportBasketball
History
First award2005
Editions10
First winnerGreece Nikos Zisis
Most winsSpain Ricky Rubio (3)
Most recentCroatia Dario Šarić (2014)

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Year Winner Club(s)
2005
Greece Nikos Zisis Italy Benetton Treviso
2006
Spain Rudy Fernández Spain Joventut Badalona
2007
Spain Ricky Rubio Spain Joventut Badalona
2008
Spain Ricky Rubio (2×) Spain Joventut Badalona
2009
Spain Ricky Rubio (3×) Spain FC Barcelona
2010
Czech Republic Jan Veselý Serbia Partizan
2011
Lithuania Jonas Valančiūnas Lithuania Lietuvos Rytas
2012
Lithuania Jonas Valančiūnas (2×) Canada Toronto Raptors
2013
Croatia Dario Šarić Croatia Cibona
2014
Croatia Dario Šarić (2×) Turkey Anadolu Efes
European Young Men's Player of the Year Winners

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