BAL Most Valuable Player
Basketball Africa League awards and honours |
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Individual awards |
Honors |
Sport | Basketball |
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League | Basketball Africa League |
Awarded for | Best performing player in the season of the Basketball Africa League |
History | |
First award | 2021 |
Most wins | 4 players (1 each) |
Most recent | Jo Lual-Acuil, Al Ahly Ly (2024) |
The Basketball Africa League Hakeem Olajuwon Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) is an annual Basketball Africa League (BAL) award given to the best player of a given season. The award is named after all-time great Hakeem Olajuwon. The award was first handed out in the inaugural season to Walter Hodge.[1]
From the 2024 season, fan voting was introduced in the process with 25% of the score being determined by online fan votes. Fans could vote on a selected pool of players.[2]
Three players have won the award thus far. Nuni Omot from South Sudan is the only African player to have won the award.[3]
Winners
[edit]Player (X) | Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one) |
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† | Player was on a team that did not win the BAL championship |
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Nuni_Omot_MVP_%28cropped%29.jpg/170px-Nuni_Omot_MVP_%28cropped%29.jpg)
Season | Player | Position | Nationality | Club | Selected statistics | Ref |
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2021 | Walter Hodge | Guard | ![]() | ![]() | [1][4] | |
2022 | Michael Dixon | Guard | ![]() | ![]() | [1][5] | |
2023 | Nuni Omot | Forward | ![]() | ![]() |
| [3][7] |
2024 | Jo Lual-Acuil | Center | ![]() | ![]() |
| [8] |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Hodge, born in Puerto Rico, also owns the Puerto Rican and American nationality but represents the US Virgin Islands in international competition.
- ^ Dixon was born in the United States but became a naturalised Georgian citizen in 2016.
- ^ Omot was born to South Sudanese parents in a refugee camp in Nairobi, Kenya. He also owns the American nationality as he moved to the country at age 2.[6] He represents South Sudan in international competition.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "Zamalek are the champions of the inaugural Basketball Africa League". The BAL. 30 May 2021. Archived from the original on 30 May 2021. Retrieved 6 June 2021.
- ^ "Vote for Your 2024 BAL Most Valuable Player". The BAL. Retrieved 3 June 2024.
- ^ a b "AL AHLY ARE THE 2023 BAL CHAMPIONS". The BAL. 27 May 2023. Retrieved 28 May 2023.
- ^ "Walter Wallace Hodge - Statistics". The BAL. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
- ^ "Michael Andre Dixon - Statistics". The BAL. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
- ^ "New forward for Bundesliga basketball team Gießen 46ers". Archysport. 1 August 2021. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
- ^ "Anunwa Omot - Statistics". The BAL. Retrieved 30 November 2023.
- ^ "Acuil-Jr. dominates 2024 BAL Awards". The BAL. Retrieved 3 June 2024.