The Basketball Bundesliga Best German Young Player (German: Bester Deutscher Nachwuchsspieler) is an annual Basketball Bundesliga award that goes to the league's most valuable player who is under age 22, and has German nationality. The award was handed out for the first time in the 2001–02 season, as the Rookie of the Year award.
Player (X) | Denotes the number of times the player has won the award |
Season | Player | Team | |||||||
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Rookie of the Year (2001–02 to 2009–10) | |||||||||
2001–02 | ![]() | Skyliners Frankfurt | |||||||
2002–03 | ![]() | Braunschweig | |||||||
2003–04 | ![]() | Telekom Baskets Bonn | |||||||
2004–05 | ![]() | Brose Baskets | |||||||
2005–06 | ![]() | Gießen 46ers | |||||||
2006–07 | ![]() | ALBA Berlin | |||||||
2007–08 | ![]() | Köln 99ers | |||||||
2008–09 | ![]() | ratiopharm Ulm | |||||||
2009–10 | ![]() | Brose Baskets | |||||||
Best German Player Under–24 (2010–11 to 2012–13) | |||||||||
2010–11 | (2) | ![]() | Brose Baskets | ||||||
2011–12 | ![]() | TBB Trier | [1] | ||||||
2012–13 | ![]() | New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig | [2] | ||||||
Best German Player Under–23 (2013–14 to 2014–15) | |||||||||
2013–14 | ![]() | ratiopharm ulm | [3] | ||||||
align=center | 2014–15 | align=center | Fraport Skyliners | align=center | [4] | ||||
Best German Player Under–22 (2015–16 to present) | |||||||||
align=center | 2015–16 | align=center | Bayern Munich | align=center | [5] | ||||
align=center | 2016–17 | align=center | ALBA Berlin | align=center | [6] | ||||
align=center | 2017–18 | Andreas Obst | align=center | Rockets | align=center | ||||
align=center | 2018–19 | Franz Wagner | align=center | Alba Berlin | align=center | [7] | |||
align=center | 2019–20 | No award was given, due to the shortened season because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[8] | |||||||
align=center | 2020–21 | Justus Hollatz | align=center | Hamburg Towers | align=center | [9] | |||
align=center | 2021–22 | Justus Hollatz (2) | align=center | Hamburg Towers | align=center | [10] | |||
align=center | 2022–23 | Malte Delow | align=center | Alba Berlin | align=center | [11] | |||
align=center | 2023–24 | Johann Grünloh | align=center | Rasta Vechta | align=center | [12] |