Euroleague – – European Awards 2016 –

MilosTeodosicTraditionally at the end of each year Eurobasket announces the European awards for last year.Eurobasket has a network of almost 300 correspondents, while most of them are located in Europe and participated in preparing the ranking below.We have the policy of not involving the fans as it may influence the final ranking and instead of that we rely on the opinions of experts.The votes were made in two categories: All-Europe and All-Europeans.All-Europe ranking applies to the players, who played in European leagues in last (15-16) and this (16-17) season, so it may apply also to non-European players, who played as imports in Europe.All-Europeans category applies only to Europeans, but also these, who played overseas (mostly in NBA).This year, for All-Europe, votes were dominated by CSKA’s backcourt duo – Nando de Colo and Milos Teodosic who led Russian powerhouse to Euroleague Title last season. Our correspondents selected French combo as Best Player in 2016. The Regular Season MVP was a leading scorer of Euroleague with 19.4ppg and had great performance in the championship game at Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin, Germany (when scored 10 of his game-high 22 points), and earned Final Four MVP honors. He also represented French National Team at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil (5 games: 15.0ppg, 2.6rpg, 2.6apg, Steals-5 (1.6spg)). For the second time (previously in 2010) Milos Teodosic was named best Point Guard of the Year. Serbian player finally earned an Euroleague title in his 5th season in CSKA. Teodosic played great in Rio, where he led Serbian National Team to the final and named All-Olympic Games 1st Team. Best Small Forward award went to Rudy Fernandez of Real Madrid. In his 5th season he is still their key player in both Euroleague and Spanish Liga Endesa. He was also one of the leaders of Spanish National Team at Olympic Games in Rio where he averaged 11.4ppg, 3.8rpg, 2.0apg and 2.0spg. Rudy was already named best SF back in 2008, 2013 and 2014.Czech athletic phenom Jan Vesely was once again selected as Best Power Forward of the Year. Thanks to his …

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