New Zealand NBL Kiwi MVP Award
The National Basketball League Kiwi MVP is an annual National Basketball League (NBL) award given since the 1984 New Zealand NBL season to the best performing New Zealand player(s) of the regular season. With no MVP award given for the league's first two seasons, in 1984, the league named its first MVP in New Zealander John "Dutchie" Rademakers. The award then went on a six-year hiatus before being brought back in 1991. However, the league did not recognise imports, with only New Zealanders being able to win MVP honours. That was until 2003 when a league-wide MVP award was introduced alongside the Kiwi MVP to allow imports the opportunity to win.[1] In 2019, the Kiwi MVP was not awarded for the first time since 1990.[2]
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Winners
| Denotes players that also won the overall MVP that season. | |
| Denotes the year a separate New Zealand player won the overall MVP. |
References
- "2015 Bartercard NBL Handbook" (PDF). Basketball.org.nz. p. 28–34. Retrieved 3 November 2015.
- "SEASON'S BEST CELEBRATED AT ANNUAL AWARDS". nznbl.basketball. 19 July 2019. Retrieved 19 July 2019.
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