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Greek Basket League Best Defender

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Season Leaders

Nick Calathes (on the right, #33 in green and white) was the Greek League Best Defender 3 times (2016, 2017, 2018).

Thomas Walkup was the Greek League Best Defender 2 times (2022, 2023).

Kostas Papanikolaou shared the Best Defender award with Nick Calathes in 2017.

The Greek Basket League (GBL) Best Defender, or Greek Basket League Defensive Player of the Year, is an annual award for the best defensive player of each season of Greece's top-tier level professional basketball club league, the Greek Basket League.

Winners

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Season	Best Defender	Club	Ref.
2006–07	Michalis Pelekanos	Panellinios
2007–08	Dimitris Diamantidis	Panathinaikos
2008–09	Dimitris Diamantidis (2×)	Panathinaikos
2009–10	Josh Childress	Olympiacos
2010–11	Dimitris Diamantidis (3×)	Panathinaikos
2011–12	Joey Dorsey	Olympiacos
2012–13	Stéphane Lasme	Panathinaikos
2013–14	Stéphane Lasme (2×)	Panathinaikos
2014–15	/ Bryant Dunston	Olympiacos
2015–16	/ Nick Calathes	Panathinaikos
2016–17	/ Nick Calathes (2×)	Panathinaikos	^[1]
2016–17	Kostas Papanikolaou	Olympiacos	^[1]
2017–18	/ Nick Calathes (3×)	Panathinaikos
2018–19	Howard Sant-Roos	AEK Athens	^[2]
2019–20	Not awarded ¹
2020–21	Howard Sant-Roos (2×)	Panathinaikos
2021–22	/ Thomas Walkup	Olympiacos
2022–23	/ Thomas Walkup (2×)	Olympiacos
2023–24	Jerian Grant	Panathinaikos

Notes:

^1 There was no awarding in the 2019–20, due to the coronavirus pandemic in Europe.

References

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^ Ο Ν. Καλάθης Καλύτερος Αμυντικός της STOIXIMAN.GR Basket League (in Greek).

^ Basket League: Καλύτερος αμυντικός ο Σαντ-Ρος (in Greek).

External links

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Official Greek Basket League Site (in Greek)
Official Greek Basket League YouTube Channel (in Greek)
Official Hellenic Basketball Federation Site (in Greek)
Basketblog.gr (in Greek)
GreekBasketball.gr (in Greek)

Greek Basket League Best Defender

2007: Pelekanos
2008: Diamantidis
2009: Diamantidis
2010: Childress
2011: Diamantidis
2012: Dorsey
2013: Lasme
2014: Lasme
2015: Dunston
2016: Calathes
2017: Calathes
2018: Calathes
2019: Sant-Roos
2021: Sant-Roos
2022: Walkup
2023: Walkup
2024: Grant

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