Greek Basketball League Best Defender

The Greek Basketball League Best Defender, or Greek Basketball League Defensive Player of the Year, is an annual award for the best defensive player of each season of Greece's top-tier level professional basketball club league, the Greek Basketball League (GBL).

Winners

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Nick Calathes (on the right, #33 in green and white) was the Greek League Best Defender 3 times (2016, 2017, 2018).
 
Thomas Walkup was the Greek League Best Defender 2 times (2022, 2023).
 
Kostas Papanikolaou shared the Best Defender award with Nick Calathes in 2017.
Season Best Defender Club Ref.
  Michalis Pelekanos Panellinios
  Dimitris Diamantidis Panathinaikos
  Dimitris Diamantidis (2×) Panathinaikos
  Josh Childress Olympiacos
  Dimitris Diamantidis (3×) Panathinaikos
  Joey Dorsey Olympiacos
  Stéphane Lasme Panathinaikos
  Stéphane Lasme (2×) Panathinaikos
 /  Bryant Dunston Olympiacos
 /  Nick Calathes Panathinaikos
 /  Nick Calathes (2×) Panathinaikos
  Kostas Papanikolaou Olympiacos
 /  Nick Calathes (3×) Panathinaikos
  Howard Sant-Roos AEK Athens
Not awarded 1
  Howard Sant-Roos (2×) Panathinaikos
 /  Thomas Walkup Olympiacos
 /  Thomas Walkup (2×) Olympiacos
  Jerian Grant Panathinaikos

Notes:

^1 There was no awarding in the 2019–20, due to the coronavirus pandemic in Europe.

References

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