VTB United League Defensive Player of the Year
# VTB United League Defensive Player of the Year

VTB United League awards and honours :

Individual awards :

MVP

Playoffs MVP

Top Scorer

Defensive Player of the Year

Sixth Man of the Year

Supercup

Top National Players

Young Player of the Year

Coach of the Year

Hall of Fame

All-Star Game :

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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.

## Winners

Key :

| Player (X) | 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 | Sasha Kaun | C | Russia | CSKA $Moscow^§$ | |
| 2014–15 | Andrey Vorontsevich | PF | Russia | CSKA $Moscow^§$ | |
| 2015–16 | Kyle Hines | C | United States | CSKA $Moscow^§$ | |
| 2016–17 | Nikita Kurbanov | SF | Russia | CSKA $Moscow^§$ | |
| 2017–18 | Dmitry Kulagin | SG | Russia | Lokomotiv Kuban | |
| 2018–19 | Maurice Ndour | PF | Senegal | UNICS | |
| 2019–20 | Not awarded | Not awarded | Not awarded | Not awarded | Not awarded |
| 2020–21 | John Brown | F | United States | UNICS | |
| 2021–22 | Jordan Mickey | C / PF | United States | Zenit Saint $Petersburg^§$ | |
| 2022–23 | Evgeny Baburin | SG | Russia | Pari Nizhny Novgorod | |

Notes:

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