{"id":219433,"date":"2021-06-10T21:42:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T19:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=219433"},"modified":"2021-06-10T21:42:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T19:42:22","slug":"euroleague-elpa-awards-micic-mvp-tavares-best-defender-polonara-most-improved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/euroleague-elpa-awards-micic-mvp-tavares-best-defender-polonara-most-improved\/","title":{"rendered":"Euroleague ELPA Awards: Micic MVP, Tavares Best Defender, Polonara Most Improved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ELPA presented the first annual Players\u2019 Choice Awards. The winners in nine different categories were selected exclusively by EuroLeague players.<\/p>\n<p>2021 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cMOST VALUABLE PLAYER\u201d: Vasilije Micic (58.9% of votes)<br \/>\n\u201dBest performing individual, who also had the biggest impact on his team\u2019s overall play\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2021 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cBEST DEFENDER\u201d: Walter Tavares (33.9% of votes)<br \/>\n\u201dMost dominant defensive player with the biggest impact on his team\u2019s defensive play\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2021 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cBEST YOUNG PLAYER\u201d: Rokas Jokubaitis (39.3% of votes)<br \/>\n\u201dBest performing young player (U-22)\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2021 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cMOST CLUTCH PLAYER\u201d: Cory Higgins (44.6% of votes)<br \/>\n\u201dA player that best performed under pressure and when games were on the line\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2021 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cMOST IMPROVED PLAYER\u201d: Achille Polonara (42.9% of votes)<br \/>\n\u201dA player that has shown biggest improvement from his previous EuroLeague season\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2021 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cBEST 6TH MAN\u201d: Will Clyburn (33.9% of votes)<br \/>\n\u201dA player that started more than half of EuroLeague regular season games from the bench and had biggest impact on his team\u2019s overall play\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2021 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cMOST RESPECTED PLAYER\u201d: Kyle Hines (69.6% of votes)<br \/>\n\u201dA player that earned most respect and embodied a true role model, on and off the court\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2021 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cBEST NEWCOMER\u201d: Dyshawn Pierre (44.6% of votes)<br \/>\n\u201dBest performing individual who played his first season in EuroLeague\u201d<\/p>\n<p>2021 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cFAIR PLAY\u201d: Nick Calathes (37.5% of votes)<br \/>\n\u201dA player with exemplary behavior on the court, promoting the spirit of fair play and showing qualities such as fairness and respect\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to nine players winning the Players\u2019 Choice Awards and to all players who voted for their peers!  \ud83d\ude4c<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfa8 : <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Dunkakis?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Dunkakis<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ELPA?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ELPA<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ELPlayers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ELPlayers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RXkYoIekNW\">pic.twitter.com\/RXkYoIekNW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; EuroLeague Players Association (@the_ELPA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/the_ELPA\/status\/1403004741219651586?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kyle Hines won the &#8216;Most respected Player&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":219432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[199],"tags":[648,705,4087,919,7544,3298],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-219433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","tag-achille-polonara-en","tag-dyshawn-pierre-en","tag-elpa","tag-kyle-hines-en","tag-vasilije-micic-en","tag-walter-tavares-en"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2021\/06\/E3h5XdpVUAg9nr6.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219433"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=219433"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=219433"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=219433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}