| Sport | Basketball |
|---|---|
| History | |
| First award | 1976 |
| Editions | 35 |
| First winner |  Pierluigi Marzorati |
| Most wins |  Toni Kukoč (4) |
| Most recent |  Juan Carlos Navarro (2010) |
TheMister Europa European Player of the Year Award was an annualbasketball award created in 1976, and given until 2010, by the panel of journalists of theItalian weekly magazineSuperbasket. Its purpose was to praise the best basketball player withEuropean citizenship for a given season, regardless of where he played in the world, including theNBA. The award was judged on the basis of bothsports club andnational team performances and accomplishments.
Like the Italian newspaper'sLa Gazzetta dello SportEuroscar Award, andEurobasket.com's All-Europe Player of the Year, it was not the officialFIBA Europe Men's Player of the Year Award, which is given out byFIBA. Its legitimacy, however, stemmed from the fact that it was the oldest of all four awards, as it was created three years before the Euroscar, twenty-six years before the All-Europe Player of the Year, and twenty-nine years before the official FIBA award.Croatiansmall forwardToni Kukoč, holds the record for most wins with four, three of them being consecutive, a record as well.
When a player was with more than one club in the calendar year of his award, all are listed.
Two players are listed as citizens of more than one country:
| * | Member of theNaismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |
| ** | Member of theFIBA Hall of Fame |
| *** | Member of both theNaismith andFIBA Halls of Fame |
