The voting has started. The nominees are:
Andris Biedrins (Latvia)
Luol Deng (Great Britain)
Dimitris Diamantidis (Greece)
Rudy Fernandez (Spain)
Pau Gasol (Spain)
Andrei Kirilenko (Russia)
Dirk Nowitzki (Germany)
Tony Parker (France)
Nikola Pekovic (Montenegro)
Zoran Planinic (Croatia)
Ramunas Siskauskas (Lithuania)
Hidayet Turkoglu (Turkey)
For more info about each of the nominees [url="http://http"]click here[/url].
[url="http://http"]Vote here[/url]
Why is Planinic there? Or Deng?
My pick is Gasol.
MEN
1 - Nowitzki
2 - Gasol
3 - Parker
YOUNG MEN (tough one, hate to leave Ma?van, Koufos and Kanter out)
1 - Gallinari
2 - Rubio
3 - Motiej?nas
[quote name='kobimel' post='13145' date='Dec 15 2008, 02:44 AM']Why is Planinic there? Or Deng?
My pick is Gasol.[/quote]
They both helped their national teams to achieve something important. Croatia qualified for Olympics for the first time in a long time. Meanwhile Great Britain qualified for Eurobasket 2009 for the first time in history.
I see...well, I guess they're both justified then. I still think Planinic is the least deserving player on the list though.
[quote name='kobimel' post='13166' date='Dec 15 2008, 12:44 PM']I see...well, I guess they're both justified then. I still think Planinic is the least deserving player on the list though.[/quote]
I don't think that Planinic, Deng, and Diamantidis deserved to make the list.
Meanwhile Gazzetta dello Sport named Pau Gasol European player of the year. Rudy Fernández came second and Hedo Türko?lu third.
[url="http://www.gazzetta.it/Sport_Vari/Basket/Estero/Primo_Piano/2009/01/01/gasol.shtml"]http://www.gazzetta.it/Sport_Vari/Basket/E.../01/gasol.shtml[/url]
[url="http://http"]Previous winners[/url]
Has Mr. Europa been named yet?
No, not yet. If you mean FIBA Europe player of the year as Mr. Europa <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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[quote name='Vilius' date='03 January 2009 - 08:40 PM' timestamp='1231008057' post='13411']No, not yet. If you mean FIBA Europe player of the year as Mr. Europa <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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No, Mr Europa is a designation by Italian magazine Superbasket.
Men:
Gasol
Siskauskas
Rudy Fernandez
Mr Europa was Ricky Rubio.
[quote name='rikhardur' date='22 January 2009 - 07:06 PM' timestamp='1232644013' post='13930']Mr Europa was Ricky Rubio.[/quote]
Link?
That seems like a highly questionable pick.
What the hell is FIBA Europe waiting for to reveal the players of the year? <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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Finally...
Quote:Player Of The Year Winners To Be Announced Next Week
FIBA Europe will honor the best of European basketball starting next week with the announcement of the winners of the FIBA Europe Player of the Year awards.
On Wednesday 18th February the winners of the Young Men's Player of the Year and the Young Women's Player of the Year awards will be announced. The selection is made from a group of nominees born in 1988 or earlier.
Last year Ricky Rubio of Spain and Sonja Petrovic of Serbia won the awards.
Then on Thursday 19th February the winners of the FIBA Europe Player of the Year and the Women's Player of the Year awards will be announced.
Last year the Player of the Year Award was captured by Andrei Kirilenko of Russia while Latvia's Anete Jekabsone-Zogota won the women's award.
The winners were selected through a public and an expert panel vote.
To see the nominees in all categories click here.
[url="http://www.fibaeurope.com/coid_9UyM3eiiHi6yPliE,OAu71.articleMode_on.container_frontpage.html"]http://www.fibaeurope.com/coid_9UyM3eiiHi6..._frontpage.html[/url]
Ricky Rubio got the FIBA young player of the year award.
Pau Gasol was named player of the year. He was first among expert voting and 3rd in public voting. Full voting results:
1. Pau Gasol
2.Rudy Fernandez
3. Dirk Nowitzki
4. Ramunas Siskauskas
5. Tony Parker
6. Hidayet Turkoglu
7. Andrei Kirilenko
8. Luol Deng
9. Andris Biedrins
10. Dimitris Diamantidis
11. Nikola Pekovic
12. Zoran Planinic
For more details see here
http://www.fibaeurope.com/coid_-90pPzz5G...de_on.html
P.S. It says "women" instead of "men" on that page <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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Congrats to Pau <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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Rudy second was a surprise for me.
Hope people at fibaeurope.com will change the table <img src='http://www.talkbasket.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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Stepanova was the chosen one for the women award.