The Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) Finals Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual award given by the 1st-tier of Italian professional basketball, the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). It has been awarded since the 2003–04 season to the league's most valuable player in the league's deciding Finals series of the playoffs.

Winners

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Bo McCalebb (2010; 2011)
 
Alessandro Gentile (2014)
Key
Player (X) Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one)
Indicates multiple award winners in the same season
Season Player Pos. Nationality Team Ref(s)
2003–04 David Andersen C   Australia[a] Montepaschi Siena
2004–05 Gianluca Basile SG   Italy Climamio Bologna
2005–06 Ramūnas Šiškauskas SF   Lithuania Benetton Treviso
2006–07 Rimantas Kaukėnas SG   Lithuania Montepaschi Siena
2007–08 Terrell McIntyre PG   United States Montepaschi Siena
2008–09 Terrell McIntyre (2) PG   United States Montepaschi Siena
2009–10 Terrell McIntyre (3) PG   United States Montepaschi Siena
2010–11 Bo McCalebb PG   Macedonia[b] Montepaschi Siena
2011–12 Bo McCalebb (2) PG   Macedonia[c] Montepaschi Siena
2012–13 Daniel Hackett PG/SG   Italy[d] Montepaschi Siena [1]
2013–14 Alessandro Gentile SF   Italy EA7 Emporio Armani Milano [2]
2014–15 Rakim Sanders SF   United States Banco di Sardegna Sassari [3]
2015–16 Rakim Sanders (2) SF   United States EA7 Emporio Armani Milano [4]
2016–17 Melvin Ejim SF   Canada Umana Reyer Venezia [5]
2017–18 Andrew Goudelock SG   United States EA7 Emporio Armani Milano [6]
2018–19 Austin Daye PF   United States Umana Reyer Venezia [7]
2019–20 Season cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic
2020–21 Miloš Teodosić PG   Serbia Virtus Segafredo Bologna [8]
2021–22 Shavon Shields SF   Denmark Olimpia Milano
2022–23 Luigi Datome SF   Italy Olimpia Milano
2023–24 Nikola Mirotic PF   Spain Olimpia Milano

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ Anderson also owns Danish nationality.
  2. ^ McCalebb also owns American nationality.
  3. ^ McCalebb also owns American nationality.
  4. ^ Hackett also owns American nationality.

References

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  1. ^ "Hackett Wins Italian League Championship Series MVP". usctrojans.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2014-08-19.
  2. ^ "Gentile named Serie A Finals MVP, Morey congratulates him on Twitter". Sportando. 28 June 2014.
  3. ^ Dinamo Sassari are Serie A Champions, Rakim Sanders named MVP.
  4. ^ "Scudetto e titolo di MVP: il bis di Rakim Sanders che migliora tutte le sue cifre" [Second MVP award won by Rakim Sanders who improved all his statistics]. Lega Basket Serie A (in Italian). 14 June 2016. Retrieved 14 June 2016.
  5. ^ "Melvin Ejim della Reyer Venezia è l'MVP delle finali scudetto" [Melvin Ejim of Reyer Venezia is the MVP of the finals]. Sportando.com (in Italian). 20 June 2017. Retrieved 22 June 2017.
  6. ^ "Andrew Goudelock è l'MVP delle LBA Finals 2018" [Andrew Goudelock is 2018 LBA Finals MVP]. Sportando.basketball (in Italian). 15 June 2018. Retrieved 15 June 2018.[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ "Austin Daye eletto MVP delle LBA Finals" [Austin Daye named LBA Finals MVP]. Sportando.basketball (in Italian). 22 June 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
  8. ^ Milos Teodosic è l’MVP delle LBA Finals UnipolSai, Sportando