ACB Best Young Player Award explained

The ACB Best Young Player Award, previously known as the ACB Rising Star Award, from 2005 to 2013, is an award for the top-tier professional basketball league in Spain, the Spanish ACB League. The award has been given since the 2004–05 ACB season.

Currently, to be eligible for the award, players must be 22 years old or younger, and must have played in at least half of the league's games during the season, with an average playing time per game of at least 10 minutes.^[1] An All-ACB Best Young Players Team is also chosen.

Rising Star award winners (2004–13)

The following is a list of the all-time ACB Rising Star Award winners.

• Player nationalities by national team.

Season	Player	Team
2004–05		Adecco Estudiantes
		Adecco Estudiantes
		DKV Joventut
		TAU Cerámica
		Alta Gestión Fuenlabrada
		CB Granada
		Baloncesto Fuenlabrada
		Assignia Manresa
		Blu:sens Monbús

Best Young Player award winners (2013–present)

The following is a list of the all-time ACB Best Young Player Award winners.

• Player nationalities by national team.

Season	Player	Team	Ref.
			^[2]
			^[3]
			^[4]
			^[5]
	Luka Dončić (2)		^[6]
	Carlos Alocén
	Carlos Alocén (2)
	Jean Montero (2)

All-ACB Best Young Players Team

• Player nationalities by national team.

Season	Players	Teams
2013–14^[7]	Guillem Vives	FIATC Joventut
		FC Barcelona
		La Bruixa d'Or
		Cajasol
		Herbalife Gran Canaria
2014–15^[8]	Guillem Vives (2)	Valencia Basket
	Álex Abrines (2)	FC Barcelona
	Dani Díez	Gipuzkoa Basket
	Kristaps Porziņģis (2)	Baloncesto Sevilla
		Baloncesto Sevilla
2015–16^[9]		Baloncesto Sevilla
		Real Madrid
	Santiago Yusta	Rio Natura Monbus Obradoiro
	Juancho Hernangómez	Movistar Estudiantes
	Willy Hernangómez (2)	Real Madrid
2016–17^[10]	Luka Dončić (2)	Real Madrid
		Divina Seguros Joventut
	Rolands Šmits	Montakit Fuenlabrada
		FC Barcelona Lassa
		Herbalife Gran Canaria
2017–18	Sergi García	Valencia Basket
	Luka Dončić (3)	Real Madrid
	Xabier López-Arostegui	Divina Seguros Joventut
		Tecnyconta Zaragoza
	Simon Birgander	Divina Seguros Joventut
2018–19	Carlos Alocén	Tecnyconta Zaragoza
	Santiago Yusta (2)	Real Madrid
	Xabier López-Arostegui (2)	Divina Seguros Joventut
	Vlatko Čančar	San Pablo Burgos
	Jordan Sakho	Baxi Manresa
2019–20	Carlos Alocén (2)	Casademont Zaragoza
		Club Joventut Badalona
		Casademont Zaragoza
	Arnoldas Kulboka	RETAbet Bilbao Basket
	Usman Garuba	Real Madrid
2020–21	Carlos Alocén (3)	Real Madrid
		FC Barcelona Lassa
		Acunsa GBC
	Yannick Nzosa	Unicaja
	Usman Garuba (2)	Real Madrid
2021–22		FC Barcelona
		Urbas Fuenlabrada
		Valencia Basket
	Joel Parra	Joventut Badalona
		Herbalife Gran Canaria
2022–23		Río Breogán
	Jean Montero	Real Betis
		Covirán Granada
	Khalifa Diop (2)	Gran Canaria
		Casademont Zaragoza
2023–24	Jean Montero	MoraBanc Andorra
		Casademont Zaragoza
		Joventut Badalona
		Baxi Manresa
		Río Breogán

See also

• ACB Most Valuable Player Award
• ACB Finals Most Valuable Player Award
• All-ACB Team

External links

• Spanish League Official Website

Notes and References

1. http://www.acb.com/redaccion.php?id=103352 Ya puedes votar el MVP Orange y el Mejor Joven
2. Web site: Guillem Vives, Mejor Joven de la Liga Endesa 2013-14 . es . Guillem Vives, Best Young of 2013-14 Endesa League . . 20 May 2014 . acb.com . 22 May 2014 . 14 February 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180214202754/http://www.acb.com/redaccion.php?id=103863 . dead .
3. Web site: Dani Díez, Mejor Jugador Joven de la Liga Endesa 2014-15. ACB.com. 19 May 2015. es. 19 May 2015. 20 May 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150520224342/http://www.acb.com/redaccion.php?id=113347. dead.
4. Web site: Juancho Hernangómez, Mejor Joven de la Liga Endesa 2015-16. ACB.com. 17 May 2016. es. 17 May 2016. 23 May 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160523193811/http://www.acb.com/redaccion.php?id=122715. dead.
5. Web site: Luka Doncic, Mejor Joven de la Liga Endesa 2016-17. ACB.com. 17 May 2017. es. 17 May 2017. 26 May 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170526145347/http://www.acb.com/redaccion.php?id=131789. dead.
6. Web site: Luka Doncic, Mejor Joven de la Liga Endesa 2017-18. ACB.com. 23 May 2017. es. 23 May 2018. 24 May 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180524082851/http://www.acb.com/redaccion.php?id=140793. dead.
7. http://www.acb.com/redaccion.php?id=103864 Mejor Quinteto Joven de la Liga Endesa 2013-14
8. http://www.acb.com/redaccion.php?id=113351 Mejor Quinteto Joven de la Liga Endesa 2014-15
9. http://www.acb.com/redaccion.php?id=122713 Mejor Quinteto Joven de la Liga Endesa 2015-16
10. Web site: Mejor Quinteto Joven de la Liga Endesa 2016-17. ACB.com. 17 May 2017. es. 17 May 2017. 28 May 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170528112232/http://www.acb.com/redaccion.php?id=131788. dead.