ACB BEST YOUNG PLAYER AWARD

The ACB Best Young Player Award, previously known as the ACB Rising Star Award, from 2005 to 2013, is an award for the top-tier professional basketball league in Spain, the Spanish ACB League. The award has been given since the 2004–05 ACB season.

Currently, to be eligible for the award, players must be 22 years old or younger, and must have played in at least half of the league's games during the season, with an average playing time per game of at least 10 minutes.^[1] An All-ACB Best Young Players Team is also chosen.

Rising Star award winners (2004–13)

Ricky Rubio was the Liga ACB Rising Star in 2007.

The following is a list of the all-time ACB Rising Star Award winners.

Player nationalities by national team.

Season	Player	Team
2004–05	Sergio Rodríguez	Adecco Estudiantes
2005–06	Carlos Suárez	Adecco Estudiantes
2006–07	Ricky Rubio	DKV Joventut
2007–08	Mirza Teletović	TAU Cerámica
2008–09	Brad Oleson	Alta Gestión Fuenlabrada
2009–10	Richard Hendrix	CB Granada
2010–11	Gustavo Ayón	Baloncesto Fuenlabrada
2011–12	Micah Downs	Assignia Manresa
2012–13	Salah Mejri	Blu:sens Monbús

Best Young Player award winners (2013–present)

The following is a list of the all-time ACB Best Young Player Award winners.

Player nationalities by national team.

Season	Player	Team	Ref.
2013–14	Guillem Vives	FIATC Joventut	^[2]
2014–15	Dani Díez	Gipuzkoa Basket	^[3]
2015–16	Juancho Hernangómez	Movistar Estudiantes	^[4]
2016–17	Luka Dončić	Real Madrid	^[5]
2017–18	Luka Dončić (2)	Real Madrid	^[6]
2018–19	Carlos Alocén	Tecnyconta Zaragoza
2019–20	Carlos Alocén (2)	Casademont Zaragoza
2020–21	Usman Garuba	Real Madrid
2021–22	Joel Parra	Joventut Badalona
2022–23	Jean Montero	Real Betis

All-ACB Best Young Players Team

Player nationalities by national team.

Season	Players	Teams
2013–14^[7]	Guillem Vives	FIATC Joventut
	Álex Abrines	FC Barcelona
	Markus Eriksson	La Bruixa d'Or
	Kristaps Porziņģis	Cajasol
	Walter Tavares	Herbalife Gran Canaria
2014–15^[8]	Guillem Vives (2)	Valencia Basket
	Álex Abrines (2)	FC Barcelona
	Dani Díez	Gipuzkoa Basket
	Kristaps Porziņģis (2)	Baloncesto Sevilla
	Willy Hernangómez	Baloncesto Sevilla
2015–16^[9]	Ludde Håkanson	Baloncesto Sevilla
	Luka Dončić	Real Madrid
	Santiago Yusta	Rio Natura Monbus Obradoiro
	Juancho Hernangómez	Movistar Estudiantes
	Willy Hernangómez (2)	Real Madrid
2016–17^[10]	Luka Dončić (2)	Real Madrid
	Alberto Abalde	Divina Seguros Joventut
	Rolands Šmits	Montakit Fuenlabrada
	Sasha Vezenkov	FC Barcelona Lassa
	Anžejs Pasečņiks	Herbalife Gran Canaria
2017–18	Sergi García	Valencia Basket
	Luka Dončić (3)	Real Madrid
	Xabier López-Arostegui	Divina Seguros Joventut
	Jonathan Barreiro	Tecnyconta Zaragoza
	Simon Birgander	Divina Seguros Joventut
2018–19	Carlos Alocén	Tecnyconta Zaragoza
	Santiago Yusta (2)	Real Madrid
	Xabier López-Arostegui (2)	Divina Seguros Joventut
	Vlatko Čančar	San Pablo Burgos
	Jordan Sakho	Baxi Manresa
2019–20	Carlos Alocén (2)	Casademont Zaragoza
	Nenad Dimitrijević	Club Joventut Badalona
	Vít Krejčí	Casademont Zaragoza
	Arnoldas Kulboka	RETAbet Bilbao Basket
	Usman Garuba	Real Madrid
2020–21	Carlos Alocén (3)	Real Madrid
	Leandro Bolmaro	FC Barcelona Lassa
	Dino Radončić	Acunsa GBC
	Yannick Nzosa	Unicaja
	Usman Garuba (2)	Real Madrid
2021–22	Rokas Jokubaitis	FC Barcelona
	Žiga Samar	Urbas Fuenlabrada
	Jaime Pradilla	Valencia Basket
	Joel Parra	Joventut Badalona
	Khalifa Diop	Herbalife Gran Canaria
2022–23	Justus Hollatz	Río Breogán
	Jean Montero	Real Betis
	Michael Caicedo	Covirán Granada
	Khalifa Diop (2)	Gran Canaria
	Aday Mara	Casademont Zaragoza

References

^ Ya puedes votar el MVP Orange y el Mejor Joven Archived 2014-06-29 at the Wayback Machine; ACB.com, 30 April 2014
^ "Guillem Vives, Mejor Joven de la Liga Endesa 2013-14" [Guillem Vives, Best Young of 2013-14 Endesa League]. acb.com (in Spanish). 20 May 2014. Archived from the original on 14 February 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
^ "Dani Díez, Mejor Jugador Joven de la Liga Endesa 2014-15" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 19 May 2015. Archived from the original on 20 May 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2015.
^ "Juancho Hernangómez, Mejor Joven de la Liga Endesa 2015-16" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 17 May 2016. Archived from the original on 23 May 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.
^ "Luka Doncic, Mejor Joven de la Liga Endesa 2016-17" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 17 May 2017. Archived from the original on 26 May 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2017.
^ "Luka Doncic, Mejor Joven de la Liga Endesa 2017-18" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 23 May 2017. Archived from the original on 24 May 2018. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
^ Mejor Quinteto Joven de la Liga Endesa 2013-14 Archived 2014-07-26 at the Wayback Machine; ACB.com, 20 May 2014
^ Mejor Quinteto Joven de la Liga Endesa 2014-15 Archived 2015-05-21 at the Wayback Machine; ACB.com, 19 May 2015
^ Mejor Quinteto Joven de la Liga Endesa 2015-16 Archived 2016-05-23 at the Wayback Machine; ACB.com, 16 May 2016
^ "Mejor Quinteto Joven de la Liga Endesa 2016-17" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 17 May 2017. Archived from the original on 28 May 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2017.

External links

Spanish League Official Website (in Spanish)

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[1] Ya puedes votar el MVP Orange y el Mejor Joven Archived 2014-06-29 at the Wayback Machine; ACB.com, 30 April 2014

[2] "Guillem Vives, Mejor Joven de la Liga Endesa 2013-14" [Guillem Vives, Best Young of 2013-14 Endesa League]. acb.com (in Spanish). 20 May 2014. Archived from the original on 14 February 2018. Retrieved 22 May 2014.

[3] "Dani Díez, Mejor Jugador Joven de la Liga Endesa 2014-15" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 19 May 2015. Archived from the original on 20 May 2015. Retrieved 19 May 2015.

[4] "Juancho Hernangómez, Mejor Joven de la Liga Endesa 2015-16" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 17 May 2016. Archived from the original on 23 May 2016. Retrieved 17 May 2016.

[5] "Luka Doncic, Mejor Joven de la Liga Endesa 2016-17" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 17 May 2017. Archived from the original on 26 May 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2017.

[6] "Luka Doncic, Mejor Joven de la Liga Endesa 2017-18" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 23 May 2017. Archived from the original on 24 May 2018. Retrieved 23 May 2018.

[7] Mejor Quinteto Joven de la Liga Endesa 2013-14 Archived 2014-07-26 at the Wayback Machine; ACB.com, 20 May 2014

[8] Mejor Quinteto Joven de la Liga Endesa 2014-15 Archived 2015-05-21 at the Wayback Machine; ACB.com, 19 May 2015

[9] Mejor Quinteto Joven de la Liga Endesa 2015-16 Archived 2016-05-23 at the Wayback Machine; ACB.com, 16 May 2016

[10] "Mejor Quinteto Joven de la Liga Endesa 2016-17" (in Spanish). ACB.com. 17 May 2017. Archived from the original on 28 May 2017. Retrieved 17 May 2017.

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v t e ACB Best Young Player Award
Rising Star Award	2005: Rodríguez 2006: Suárez 2007: Rubio 2008: Teletović 2009: Oleson 2010: Hendrix 2011: Ayón 2012: Downs 2013: Mejri
Best Young Player Award	2014: Vives 2015: Díez 2016: Hernangómez 2017: Dončić 2018: Dončić 2019: Alocén 2020: Alocén 2021: Garuba 2022: Parra 2023: Montero

v t e ACB Best Young Player Award
Rising Star Award	2005: Rodríguez 2006: Suárez 2007: Rubio 2008: Teletović 2009: Oleson 2010: Hendrix 2011: Ayón 2012: Downs 2013: Mejri
Best Young Player Award	2014: Vives 2015: Díez 2016: Hernangómez 2017: Dončić 2018: Dončić 2019: Alocén 2020: Alocén 2021: Garuba 2022: Parra 2023: Montero

Rising Star award winners (2004–13)

Best Young Player award winners (2013–present)

All-ACB Best Young Players Team

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