{"id":278965,"date":"2022-06-11T15:21:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T13:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=278965"},"modified":"2022-06-11T15:21:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T13:21:19","slug":"2022-elpa-players-choice-award-mike-james-is-the-most-valuable-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/2022-elpa-players-choice-award-mike-james-is-the-most-valuable-player\/","title":{"rendered":"2022 ELPA Players&#8217; Choice Award: Mike James is the MOST VALUABLE PLAYER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ELPA presented the second edition of annual Players\u2019 Choice Awards. The winners in nine different categories were selected exclusively by EuroLeague players.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2022 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cMOST VALUABLE PLAYER\u201d: Mike James (38.8% of votes)<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201dBest performing individual, who also had the biggest impact on his team\u2019s overall play\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>2022 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cBEST DEFENDER\u201d: John Brown III (46.9% of votes)<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201dMost dominant defensive player with the biggest impact on his team\u2019s defensive play\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>2022 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cBEST YOUNG PLAYER\u201d: Rokas Jokubaitis (51% of votes)<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201dBest performing young player (U-22)\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>2022 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cMOST CLUTCH PLAYER\u201d: Vasilije Micic (49% of votes)<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201dA player that best performed under pressure and when games were on the line\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>2022 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cMOST IMPROVED PLAYER\u201d: Nicolas Laprovittola (40.8% of votes)<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201dA player that has shown biggest improvement from his previous EuroLeague season\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>2022 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cBEST 6TH MAN\u201d: Will Clyburn (40.8% of votes)<\/strong><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><strong>2022 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cMOST RESPECTED PLAYER\u201d: Kyle Hines (57.1% of votes)<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201dA player that earned most respect and embodied a true role model, on and off the court\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>2022 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cBEST NEWCOMER\u201d: John Brown III (36.7% of votes)<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201dBest performing individual who played his first season in EuroLeague\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>2022 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cFAIR PLAY\u201d: Luke Sikma (34.7% of votes)<\/strong><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<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\" \/>\n<p>With the 2021-2022 Euroleague season coming to an end, we would like to again remember our teammate and friend\u00a0<strong>Adreian Payne<\/strong>\u00a0with some words from his former teammates and ELPA\u2019s President.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"JsGRdQ\"><em>\u201cAdreian was a special guy and it was a pleasure to be around him. He had an amazing personality and was such a happy person. Very talented player. He loved his son who was his everything. He is deeply missed by us all.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Nick Calathes (FC Barcelona)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cLive!!! You lived your life each day being yourself. Showing us all how to actually LIVE! For this your legacy will carry on with all of the lives you blessed by just being you! RIP my brother. Forever with us!\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 David Lighty (LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne)<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAP didn\u2019t do anything by halves. And he was really authentic. It was black and white with him. He loved basketball, he was a hard worker. You could go to war with him. A lot of respect for the man and the father that he was.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Charles Kahudi (LDLC ASVEL Villeurbanne)<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI first got introduced to AP in college and he is one of the most uniquely talented basketball players I\u2019ve ever got to play with and against. His mix of athleticism and skills were raw and rare and watching him grow as a player was an honor. AP was one a kind person as well. For real. I know a lot of people say that in the cliche way but AP had a genuine mix of competitive confidence and genuine humility. Getting to know him even better in ASVEL was truly a blessing. He wanted to see everyone do well and was willing to help in anyway possible. He had an infectiously helpful personality and he is going to be greatly missed. My prayers go out to his family. Rest Easy AP\u201d\u00a0<\/em>\u2013 Jordan Taylor<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAdreian was admired by many of his teammates throughout his career, whether in college, NBA or Europe. We did not have the opportunity to play on the same team, but I know his memory will live on with all players who shared basketball with him.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 Tornike Shengelia (ELPA President)<\/p>\n<div class=\"et_pb_section et_pb_section_1_tb_body et_section_regular\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_row et_pb_row_1_tb_body et_pb_row_3-4_1-4\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_with_border et_pb_column_3_4 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_tb_body et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_post_content et_pb_post_content_0_tb_body\">\n<p>May his soul rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-2822\" src=\"https:\/\/elpa.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/ELPA_Awards_2022.png.webp\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 1000px, 100vw\" srcset=\"https:\/\/elpa.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/ELPA_Awards_2022.png.webp 1000w, https:\/\/elpa.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/ELPA_Awards_2022-980x980.png.webp 980w, https:\/\/elpa.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/ELPA_Awards_2022-480x480.png.webp 480w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"1000\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_4 et_pb_column_2_tb_body et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough et-last-child\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_image et_pb_image_0_tb_body\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_with_border et_pb_module et_pb_sidebar_0_tb_body et_pb_widget_area clearfix et_pb_widget_area_left et_pb_bg_layout_light\">\n<div id=\"recent-posts-2\" class=\"et_pb_widget widget_recent_entries\">\n<h4 class=\"widgettitle\"><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"et_pb_module et_pb_text et_pb_text_0_tb_body et_pb_text_align_right et_pb_bg_layout_light et_had_animation\">\n<div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">ELPA Players&#39; Choice Awards&#39; 2022 are complete! Congratulations to all winners and thank you to all players who voted for their peers \ud83d\ude4f <\/p>\n<p>Find out the list of all winners here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Wwr4oWnBSu\">https:\/\/t.co\/Wwr4oWnBSu<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ELPlayers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ELPlayers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SdcoyIXXEq\">pic.twitter.com\/SdcoyIXXEq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; EuroLeague Players Association (@the_ELPA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/the_ELPA\/status\/1535266579398766593?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 10, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winners in nine different categories were selected exclusively by EuroLeague players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":278966,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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":[82],"tags":[4087,918,1278],"rumors":[],"typology":[15725],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-278965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","tag-elpa","tag-kyle-hines-2","tag-mike-james","typology-comunicato"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2022\/06\/FU401tjWYAIWX1_.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278965","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=278965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278965"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=278965"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=278965"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=278965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}