LNB Élite Awards

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The LNB Élite Awards are the individual awards of the top-tier level men's professional club basketball league in France, the LNB Élite. Maxi-Basket holds the vote, and calls it the referendum. The distinction of the Coach of the Year is awarded by the Coaches' Basketball Union.

Player of the Year awards (before 1983)

Before 1983, the title of the best player in the league was sometimes assigned by a panel of journalists, but the charts are incomplete.

• Jean Degros (Denain) was voted the best player of the year in the 1962–63 season.
• Alain Gilles (ASVEL) was voted the best player of the year in the 1964–65, 1966–67, and 1967–68 seasons.
• Michel Le Ray (ABC Nantes) was voted the best player of the year in the 1965–66 season.
• Pierre Galle (AS Berck) was voted the best player of the year in the 1972–73 and 1973–74 seasons.

Awards (since 1983)

Between 1983 and 2005, the monthly Maxi-Basket conducted a vote of the players and head coaches of the league. Since 2005, the coaches and captains of the LNB Élite clubs, and a panel of fifty journalists are asked to vote. Since the 2014–15 LNB Pro A season, the MVP award is a single unified award. Prior to that, it was divided into two separate awards, one for French players, and one for non-French players.

Season	French Domestic Player's MVP	Foreign Player's MVP	Best Young Player	Best Defender	Most Improved Player	Best Sixth Man	Best Coach
1982–83	Philip Szanyiel (ASVEL)	Ed Murphy (Limoges)	Valéry Demory (Stade)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Unassigned	Unassigned
1983–84	Hervé Dubuisson (Stade)	Ed Murphy (Limoges)	Stéphane Ostrowski (MSB)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Unassigned	Unassigned
1984–85	Richard Dacoury (Limoges)	Ed Murphy (Limoges)	Valéry Demory (Stade)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Unassigned	Unassigned
1985–86	Stéphane Ostrowski (Limoges)	Kevin Figaro (Challans)	Christian Garnier (Monaco)	Allen Bunting (Antibes)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Michel Gomez (Challans)
1986–87	Freddy Hufnagel (Orthez)	Bill Varner (Antibes)	Didier Gadou (Orthez)	Richard Dacoury (Limoges)	Unassigned	Unassigned	George Fisher (Orthez)
1987–88	Stéphane Ostrowski (Limoges)	Don Collins (Limoges)	Hugues Occansey (Limoges)	Richard Dacoury (Limoges)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Jean Galle (Cholet)
1988–89	Stéphane Ostrowski (Limoges)	Don Collins (Limoges)	Jim Bilba (Cholet)	Richard Dacoury (Limoges)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Jean-Luc Monschau (Mulhouse)
1989–90	Stéphane Ostrowski (Limoges)	Don Collins (Limoges)	Antoine Rigaudeau (Cholet)	Richard Dacoury (Limoges)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Michel Gomez (Limoges)
1990–91	Antoine Rigaudeau (Cholet)	Michael Brooks (Limoges)	Antoine Rigaudeau (Cholet)	Richard Dacoury (Limoges)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Michel Gomez (Orthez)
1991–92	Antoine Rigaudeau (Cholet)	Michael Brooks (Limoges)	Antoine Rigaudeau (Cholet)	Richard Dacoury (Limoges)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Alain Thinet (Roanne)
1992–93	Antoine Rigaudeau (Cholet)	Michael Young (Limoges)	Yann Bonato (Antibes)	Richard Dacoury (Limoges)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Božidar Maljković (Limoges)
1993–94	Antoine Rigaudeau (Cholet)	Michael Young (Limoges)	Alain Digbeu (ASVEL)	Richard Dacoury (Limoges)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Božidar Maljković (Limoges)
1994–95	Yann Bonato (Paris)	David Rivers (Antibes)	Alain Digbeu (ASVEL)	Richard Dacoury (Limoges)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Jacques Monclar (Antibes)
1995–96	Antoine Rigaudeau (Orthez)	Delaney Rudd (ASVEL)	Fabien Dubos (Orthez)	Arsène Ade-Mensah (Antibes)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Grégor Beugnot (ASVEL)
1996–97	Yann Bonato (Limoges)	Delaney Rudd (ASVEL)	Frédéric Weis (Limoges)	Jim Bilba (ASVEL)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Grégor Beugnot (ASVEL)
1997–98	Jim Bilba (ASVEL)	Jerry McCullough (BCM)	Willem Laure (Dijon)	Arsène Ade-Mensah (Paris)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Grégor Beugnot (ASVEL)
1998–99	Laurent Foirest (Orthez)	Keith Jennings (MSB)	Frédéric Weis (Limoges)	Jim Bilba (ASVEL)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Claude Bergeaud (Orthez)
1999–00	Moustapha Sonko (ASVEL)	Marcus Brown (Limoges)	David Gautier (Cholet)	Jim Bilba (ASVEL)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Christophe Vitoux (SIG) and Duško Ivanović (Limoges)
2000–01	Jim Bilba (ASVEL)	Bill Edwards (ASVEL)	Tony Parker (Paris)	Jim Bilba (ASVEL)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Vincent Collet (MSB)
2001–02	Cyril Julian (Nancy)	Roger Esteller (Orthez)	Boris Diaw (Orthez)	Florent Pietrus (Orthez)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Savo Vucević (Cholet)
2002–03	Boris Diaw (Orthez)	Rico Hill (MSB)	Pape-Philippe Amagou (MSB)	Makan Dioumassi (Toulon)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Frédéric Sarre (Orthez)
2003–04	Laurent Foirest (Orthez)	Rick Hughes (SIG)	Pape-Philippe Amagou (MSB)	Thierry Rupert (SIG)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Vincent Collet (MSB)
2004–05	Laurent Sciarra (BCM)	Jermaine Guice (STB)	Michael Mokongo (Chalon)	Michael Mokongo (Chalon)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Éric Girard (SIG)
2005–06	Cyril Julian (Nancy)	Jason Rowe (Toulon)	Ian Mahinmi (STB)	John Linehan (Paris) / (SIG)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Frédéric Sarre (JL Bourg)
2006–07	Cyril Julian (Nancy)	Dewarick Spencer (Roanne)	Nicolas Batum (MSB)	Marc-Antoine Pellin (Roanne)	Unassigned	Unassigned	Jean-Denys Choulet (Roanne)
2007–08	Nando de Colo (Cholet)	Marc Salyers (Roanne)	Nicolas Batum (MSB)	Dounia Issa (Vichy)	Nando de Colo (Cholet)	Unassigned	Christian Monschau (STB)
2008–09	Alain Koffi (MSB)	Austin Nichols (Toulon)	Thomas Heurtel (Orthez)	Tony Dobbins (Orléans)	Rodrigue Beaubois (Cholet)	Unassigned	Philippe Hervé (Orléans)
2009–10	Ali Traoré (ASVEL)	Ricardo Greer (Nancy)	Andrew Albicy (Paris)	John Linehan (Cholet)	Kevin Seraphin (Cholet)	Unassigned	Ruddy Nelhomme (Poitiers)
2010–11	Mickaël Gelabale (ASVEL)	Sammy Mejia (Cholet)	Evan Fournier (Poitiers)	John Linehan (Nancy)	Evan Fournier (Poitiers)	Unassigned	Erman Kunter (Cholet)
2011–12	Fabien Causeur (Cholet)	Blake Schilb (Chalon)	Evan Fournier (Poitiers)	Andrew Albicy (BCM)	Evan Fournier (Poitiers)	Unassigned	Grégor Beugnot (Chalon)
2012–13	Edwin Jackson (ASVEL)	Dwight Buycks (BCM)	Livio Jean-Charles (ASVEL)	Tony Dobbins (Poitiers)	Edwin Jackson (ASVEL)	Unassigned	Christian Monschau (BCM)
2013–14	Antoine Diot (SIG)	Randal Falker (Nancy)	Clint Capela (Chalon)	Tony Dobbins (Dijon)	Clint Capela (Chalon)	Unassigned	Jean-Louis Borg (Dijon)
2014–15	Adrien Moerman (Limoges)		Petr Cornelie (Le Mans)	Florent Piétrus (Nancy)	Benjamin Sene (Nancy)	Jamar Smith (Limoges) and Darnell Harris (Orleans)	Vincent Collet (SIG)
2015–16	Devin Booker (Chalon)		Frank Ntilikina (SIG)	Charles Kahudi (ASVEL)	Wilfried Yeguete (Orthez)	Matt Howard (SIG) and Mathias Lessort (Chalon)	Vincent Collet (SIG)
2016–17	D.J. Cooper (Orthez)		Frank Ntilikina (SIG)	Moustapha Fall (Chalon)	Paul Lacombe (SIG)	Louis Labeyrie (Paris-Levallois)	Zvezdan Mitrović (Monaco)

L'Équipe awards (1994–2005)

Between 1994 and 2005, the French newspaper, L'Équipe, also conducted a selection of the best French and foreign players of the league, through a vote of journalists. These awards are also considered official by the Ligue Nationale de Basket (LNB).

Season	French Domestic Player's MVP	Foreign Player's MVP
1993–94	Antoine Rigaudeau (Cholet)	Michael Young (Limoges)
1994–95	Yann Bonato (Paris)	David Rivers (Antibes)
1995–96	Antoine Rigaudeau (Orthez)	Delaney Rudd (ASVEL)
1996–97	Jim Bilba (ASVEL)	Delaney Rudd (ASVEL)
1997–98	Alain Digbeu (ASVEL)	Jerry McCullough (BCM)
1998–99	Laurent Foirest (Orthez)	Keith Jennings (MSB)
1999–00	Moustapha Sonko (ASVEL)	Marcus Brown (Limoges)
2000–01	Jim Bilba (ASVEL)	Bill Edwards (ASVEL)
2001–02	Cyril Julian (Nancy)	- Tony Dorsey (Cholet)
2002–03	Laurent Sciarra (Paris)	Dragan Lukovski (Orthez)
2003–04	Laurent Foirest (Orthez)	Rick Hughes (SIG)
2004–05	Laurent Sciarra (BCM)	Jermaine Guice (STB)

LNB Élite MVP

LNB Élite Finals MVP

References

External links

• Official Site (in French)