{"id":333874,"date":"2023-06-07T19:46:33","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T17:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=333874"},"modified":"2023-06-07T19:46:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T17:46:33","slug":"elpa-players-choice-award-vezenkov-mvp-walkup-best-defender-hayes-davis-most-improved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/elpa-players-choice-award-vezenkov-mvp-walkup-best-defender-hayes-davis-most-improved\/","title":{"rendered":"ELPA Players&#8217; choice award: Vezenkov MVP, Walkup Best Defender, Hayes-Davis Most Improved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ELPA <a href=\"https:\/\/elpa.basketball\/elpa-players-choice-awards-the-new-winners-revealed\/\">presents<\/a> the third edition of its annual Players\u2019 Choice Awards. Winners in each category are players who received the biggest majority of votes, voted exclusively by the EuroLeague players.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2023 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cMOST VALUABLE PLAYER\u201d: Sasha Vezenkov (47.4% of votes)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201dBest performing individual with the biggest impact on his team\u2019s overall play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>2023 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cBEST DEFENDER\u201d: Thomas Walkup (43.9% of votes)<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201dMost dominant defensive player with the biggest impact on his team\u2019s defensive play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>2023 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cBEST YOUNG PLAYER\u201d: Yam Madar (47.4% of votes)<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201dBest performing young player (U-22).\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>2023 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cBEST 6TH MAN\u201d: Kostas Sloukas (38.6% 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>2023 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cMOST IMPROVED PLAYER\u201d: Nigel Hayes-Davis (42.1% of votes)<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201dA player that has shown biggest improvement from his previous EuroLeague season.\u201d<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>2023 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cBEST NEWCOMER\u201d: Darius Thompson (52.6% of votes)<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201dBest performing individual who played his first season in EuroLeague.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>2023 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cMOST CLUTCH PLAYER\u201d: Sergio Llull (47.4% of votes)<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cA player that best performed under pressure and when the games were on the line.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>2023 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cMOST RESPECTED PLAYER\u201d: Kyle Hines (61.4% of votes)<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>\u201cA player who earned most respect amongst his peers and embodied a true role model, on and off the court.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>2023 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Award \u201cFAIR PLAY\u201d: Luke Sikma (36.8% of votes)<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201d<em>A player with the exemplary behavior towards opponents and referees, promoting the spirit of fair play.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2728 2023 ELPA Players\u2019 Choice Awards \u2728<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to all nine players who have been voted by their peers!<\/p>\n<p>Read more details about the votes here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/teMztJUPCN\">https:\/\/t.co\/teMztJUPCN<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ELPlayers?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#ELPlayers<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UsHYq2yP9U\">pic.twitter.com\/UsHYq2yP9U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; EuroLeague Players Association (@the_ELPA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/the_ELPA\/status\/1666464133833687041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 7, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winners in each category are players who received the biggest majority of votes, voted exclusively by the EuroLeague players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":333873,"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":[199],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[15725],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-333874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-euroleague","typology-comunicato"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/06\/FyB4SyMWwAMyvrV-1.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333874","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=333874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333874"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=333874"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=333874"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=333874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}