Mr. Europa

Main article: European Basketball Player of the Year Awards

The Mister Europa European Player of the Year Award is an annual basketball award created in 1976 and given today by the panel of journalists of the Italian weekly magazine Superbasket. Its purpose is to praise the best European basketball player, regardless of where he plays in the world, including NBA players, for a given season. The award is judged on the basis of both sports club and national team performances and accomplishments.

It is one of the three most prestigious awards that any European basketball player can receive along with FIBA's official award, the FIBA European Player of the Year Award, and the Euroscar Award. Croatian small forward Toni Kukoč currently holds the record for most wins with four, three of them being consecutive, a record as well.

Honor roll

When a player has been with more than one club in the calendar year of his award, all are listed.

Three players are listed as citizens of more than one country:

• Nikos Galis was a citizen of both the United States and Greece by birth—the US because of his birth in New Jersey, and Greece because both of his parents were Greek immigrants to the US.
• Toni Kukoč is listed for 1991 as a citizen of both SFR Yugoslavia and Croatia because Croatia declared its independence in that year.
• Peja Stojaković is listed as a citizen of both FR Yugoslavia and Serbia and Montenegro in 2002, the year of establishment of the latter entity. He also holds a Greek passport.

Year	Winner	Country	Club(s)
1976	Pierluigi Marzorati	Italy	Cantù
1977	Dražen Dalipagić	SFR Yugoslavia	Partizan Belgrade
1978	Dražen Dalipagić	SFR Yugoslavia	Partizan Belgrade
1979	Vladimir Tkachenko	Soviet Union	Stroitel Kiev
1980	Dino Meneghin	Italy	Varese and Olimpia Milano
1981	Dragan Kićanović	SFR Yugoslavia	Partizan Belgrade
1982	Dragan Kićanović	SFR Yugoslavia	Partizan Belgrade and Scavolini Pesaro
1983	Dino Meneghin	Italy	Olimpia Milano
1984	Juan Antonio San Epifanio	Spain	FC Barcelona
1985	Arvydas Sabonis	Soviet Union	Žalgiris Kaunas
1986	Dražen Petrović	SFR Yugoslavia	Cibona Zagreb
1987	Nikos Galis	Greece	Aris Thessaloniki
1988	Šarūnas Marčiulionis	Soviet Union	Statyba Vilnius
1989	Vlade Divac	SFR Yugoslavia	Partizan Belgrade and Los Angeles Lakers
1990	Toni Kukoč	SFR Yugoslavia	KK Split
1991	Toni Kukoč	SFR Yugoslavia  Croatia	KK Split and Benetton Treviso
1992	Toni Kukoč	Croatia	Benetton Treviso
1993	Dražen Petrović	Croatia	New Jersey Nets
1994	Sasha Djordjević	FR Yugoslavia	Olimpia Milano and Fortitudo Bologna
1995	Sasha Djordjević	FR Yugoslavia	Fortitudo Bologna
1996	Toni Kukoč	Croatia	Chicago Bulls
1997	Arvydas Sabonis	Lithuania	Portland Trail Blazers
1998	Predrag Danilović	FR Yugoslavia	Virtus Bologna
1999	Andrea Meneghin	Italy	Varese
2000	Gregor Fučka	Italy	Fortitudo Bologna
2001	Peja Stojaković	FR Yugoslavia	Sacramento Kings
2002	Peja Stojaković	FR Yugoslavia	Sacramento Kings
2003	Šarūnas Jasikevičius	Lithuania	FC Barcelona and Maccabi Tel Aviv
2004	Pau Gasol	Spain	Memphis Grizzlies
2005	Dirk Nowitzki	Germany	Dallas Mavericks
2006	Jorge Garbajosa	Spain	Unicaja Málaga and Toronto Raptors
2007	Dimitris Diamantidis[1]	Greece	Panathinaikos
2008	Pau Gasol[2]	Spain	Los Angeles Lakers
2009	Pau Gasol[3]	Spain	Los Angeles Lakers
2010	Juan Carlos Navarro[4]	Spain	FC Barcelona

See also

• Euroscar Award
• FIBA Europe Player of the Year Award
• FIBA Europe Young Men's Player of the Year Award
• Euroleague Finals Most Valuable Player Award

References

1. ^ fibaeurope.com Diamantidis Named Mister Europe 2007.
2. ^ marca.com Pau Gasol y Rudy, elegidos los dos mejores jugadores de Europa 2008.
3. ^ sport.piazzagrande.info Basket, Superbasket nomina Giuseppe Poeta “Mister Italia” 2009.
4. ^ pistoiabasket2000.it IN EDICOLA SUPERBASKET, CON L’INTERVISTA A TOPPO.

External links

• FIBAEurope.com Mr. Europa Article