The VTB United League Defensive Player of the Year is an annual VTB United League award given since the 2013–14 VTB United League season to the league's best defender.
| Player | Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one) | |
|---|---|---|
| Indicates multiple award winners in the same season | ||
| § | Denotes the club were the league champions in the same season |
| Season | Player | Pos. | Nationality | Team | Ref(s) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013–14 | scope=row | CSKA Moscow§ | [1] | ||||
| 2014–15 | scope=row | CSKA Moscow§ | [2] | ||||
| 2015–16 | scope=row |  United States | CSKA Moscow§ | [3] | |||
| 2016–17 | scope=row | CSKA Moscow§ | [4] | ||||
| 2017–18 | scope=row | Lokomotiv Kuban | Web site: League Announces Individual Awards At Gala. 9 June 2018. 29 June 2018. vtb-league.com. | ||||
| 2018–19 | scope=row |  Senegal | UNICS | [5] | |||
| 2019–20 | Not awarded | ||||||
| 2020–21 | scope=row | John Brown | United States | UNICS | [6] | ||
| 2021–22 | scope=row | Jordan Mickey | / | United States | Zenit Saint Petersburg§ | [7] | |
| 2022–23 | scope=row | Evgeny Baburin | Pari Nizhny Novgorod | [8] | |||
There was no awarding in the 2019–20, because the season was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic in Europe.