Basketball In Spain » fiba player of the year http://www.basketballinspain.com Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:13:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Torrens and Rubio Named FIBA Youth Players of the Year http://www.basketballinspain.com/torrens-and-rubio-named-fiba-youth-players-of-the-year.html http://www.basketballinspain.com/torrens-and-rubio-named-fiba-youth-players-of-the-year.html#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 19:23:26 +0000 admin http://www.basketballinspain.com/?p=339 trubio

Basketball proves to be improving more than ever in Spain, as top youth players Alba Torrens and Ricky Rubio were awarded FIBAs Youth Player of the Year Awards for 2009. For Rubio, its nothing new and now has garnered the award for the 3rd time in a row. Are there not any other great youth players?!

Alba Torrens was cited in the Spanish Basketball Federation website about her award:

This recognition is due to join very competitive Spanish teams

Torrens will also participate in the Euroleague Womens All-Star game in March as well in Poland.

Rubio was drafted in the NBA but decided to stay in Spain for the 2009-2010 season. Now he wheres and plays with FC Barcelona and participates in the ACB and Euroleague.

]]> http://www.basketballinspain.com/torrens-and-rubio-named-fiba-youth-players-of-the-year.html/feed 1 Pau Gasol FIBA Player of the Year 2008 http://www.basketballinspain.com/pau-gasol-fiba-player-of-the-year-2008.html http://www.basketballinspain.com/pau-gasol-fiba-player-of-the-year-2008.html#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:36:47 +0000 admin http://www.basketballinspain.com/?p=216

Pau Gasol was clearly voted as FIBA’s Men’s Player of the Year award for 2008. Gasol led his Spanish National Team to a silver medal in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He scored, defended and gave his teammates confidence while scaring team USA for the fight of the gold medal.

Rudy Fernandez, Gasols Spanish teammate came in second in votes.

Below are the other rankings

MEN EXPERT PUBLIC TOTAL
Pau Gasol 1 3 1
Rudy Fernandez 2 6 2
Dirk Nowitzki 3 5 2.6
Ramunas Siskauskas 4 4 3.2
Tony Parker 5 7 4.2
Hidayet Turkoglu 6 1 4.3
Andrei Kirilenko 7 9 5.8
Luol Deng 8 11 6.7
Andris Biedrins 10 2 7.2
Dimitris Diamantidis 9 12 7.5
Nikola Pekovic 11 10 8.7
Zoran Planinic 12 8 9.2
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FIBA’s annual Player of the Year voting is now taken place. There are a total of six basketball players from both Mens and Womens Spanish National Team who have been chosen as nominees.

Player of the Year Men

  • Pau Gasol
  • Rudy Fernandez

Player of the Year Women

  • Amaya Valdemoro
  • Anna Montanana

Player of the Year Young Men

  • Ricky Rubio

Player of the Year Young Women

  • Alba Torrens

Visit the FIBA website to vote for your favorite player. You have a chance to win an official Molten Basketball.

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