LBA Most Valuable Player

The Lega Basket Serie A (LBA) Most Valuable Player (MVP) is an annual award of the 1st-tier professional basketball league in Italy, the Lega Basket Serie A (LBA), given since the 1993–94 season, to the league's most valuable player in a given regular season.

Winners

Manu Ginóbili won the MVP award two times, in 2001 and 2002.

Danilo Gallinari was named the MVP in 2008.

Luigi Datome won the award in 2013.

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

• Player nationalities by national team.

Season	Player	Pos.	Nationality	Team	Ref(s)
1993–94	Carlton Myers	SG	Italy[lower-alpha 1]	Scavolini Pesaro
1994–95	Stefano Rusconi	C	Italy	Benetton Treviso
1995–96	Henry Williams	SG	United States	Benetton Treviso
1996–97	Carlton Myers (2×)	SG	Italy[lower-alpha 1]	Teamsystem Bologna
1997–98	Sasha Danilović	SG/SF	FR Yugoslavia	Kinder Bologna
1998–99	Vincenzo Esposito	SG	Italy	Termal Imola
1999–00	Vincenzo Esposito (2×)	SG	Italy	Lineltex Imola
2000–01	Manu Ginóbili	SG	Argentina	Kinder Bologna
2001–02	Manu Ginóbili (2×)	SG	Argentina	Kinder Bologna
2002–03	Massimo Bulleri	PG/SG	Italy	Benetton Treviso
2003–04	Gianluca Basile	SG	Italy	Skipper Bologna
2004–05	Massimo Bulleri (2×)	PG/SG	Italy	Benetton Treviso
2005–06	Lynn Greer	PG/SG	United States	Carpisa Napoli
2006–07	Terrell McIntyre	PG	United States	Montepaschi Siena
2007–08	Danilo Gallinari	SF/PF	Italy	Armani Jeans Milano
2008–09	Terrell McIntyre (2×)	PG	United States	Montepaschi Siena
2009–10	Romain Sato	SG/SF	Central African Republic	Montepaschi Siena
2010–11	Omar Thomas	SG/SF	United States	Air Avellino
2011–12	Bo McCalebb	PG	North Macedonia[lower-alpha 2]	Montepaschi Siena	[1]
2012–13	Luigi Datome	SF/PF	Italy	Acea Roma	[2]
2013–14	Drake Diener	SG	United States	Banco di Sardegna Sassari	[3]
2014–15	Tony Mitchell	SF	United States	Dolomiti Energia Trento	[4]
2015–16	James Nunnally	SF	United States	Sidigas Avellino	[5]
2016–17	Marcus Landry	SF	United States	Brescia Leonessa	[6]
2017–18	Jason Rich	G	United States	Sidigas Avellino	[7]
2018–19	Drew Crawford	SF	United States	Vanoli Cremona	[8]
2019–20	Not awarded due to the COVID-19 pandemic
2020–21	Stefano Tonut	G	Italy	Reyer Venezia	[9]
2021–22	Amedeo Della Valle	G	Italy	Basket Brescia Leonessa
2022–23	Colbey Ross	PG	United States	Openjobmetis Varese	[10]
2023–24	Marco Belinelli	SG	Italy	Virtus Bologna

See also

• Lega Basket Serie A Finals MVP
• Lega Basket Serie A awards

Notes

1. Carlton Myers played for the Italian national team, and was raised in the United Kingdom.
2. Bo McCalebb played for the Macedonian national team, and was born in the USA.

References

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9. "LBA Awards: Stefano Tonut named MVP and Best Italian Player, Kyle Hines is the Best Defender". Sportando. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
10. "Colbey Ross named 2022-2023 Italian LBA Serie A MVP". Sportando. 11 May 2023.