DBL Most Improved Player
# DBL Most Improved Player

Dutch Basketball League awards, honours, and leaders :

Individual awards :

Most Valuable Player

Coach of the Year

Defensive Player of the Year

MVP Under 23

Sixth Man of the Year

Playoffs MVP

Statistical Player of the Year

Most Improved Player

Rookie of the Year

Kees Akerboom Trophy :

Honors :

All-DBL Team

All-Rookie Team

All-Defense Team :

Statistical leaders :

Scoring

Assists

Blocks

Rebounding

Steals :

vte :

The Dutch Basketball League Most Improved Player is an award that is yearly given to the most improved player in the DBL, the highest professional basketball league in the Netherlands. The award is handed out after the regular season. The award is handed out by the FEB (Federatie Eredivisie Basketbal).

## Winners

Key :

| Player (X) | Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one) |
| - | - |
| Nationality | Nationality as registered by FIBA, player may hold more nationalities |
| † | Indicates multiple award winners in the same season |
| ‡ | Denotes the club were DBL champions in the same season |
| Season | Player | Position | Nationality | Team |
| 2010–11 | Worthy de Jong | Guard | Netherlands | ZZ $Leiden^‡$ |
| 2011–12 | Leon Williams | Guard | Netherlands | Rotterdam Basketbal College |
| 2012–13 | Jeroen van der List | Forward/center | Netherlands | Den Helder Kings |
| 2013–14 | Jeroen van der List (2) | Forward/center | Netherlands | Den Helder Kings |
| 2014–15 | Yannick Franke | Guard | Netherlands | Challenge Sports Rotterdam |
| 2015–16 | Grant Gibbs | Guard | United States | Landstede |
| 2016–17 | Maarten Bouwknecht | Guard | Netherlands | New Heroes Den Bosch |
| 2017–18 | Sam van Dijk | Guard | Netherlands | BAL |
| 2018–19 | Rienk Mast | Forward/center | Netherlands | Donar |
| 2020–21 | Stan van den Elzen | Guard | Netherlands | Den Helder Suns |

## Awards won by nationality

| Country | Total |
| - | - |
| Netherlands | 9 |
| United States | 1 |

## Awards won by club

| Country | Total |
| - | - |
| Den Helder Kings / Den Helder Suns | 3 |
| Rotterdam | 2 |
| ZZ Leiden | 1 |
| Den Bosch | 1 |
| Landstede Zwolle | 1 |
| BAL | 1 |
| Donar | 1 |
