FIBA Basketball World Cup Most Valuable Player

The FIBA Basketball World Cup Most Valuable Player is an award, that is given by FIBA, to the Most Valuable Player of the FIBA Basketball World Cup. The inaugural award was handed out in 1950, to Oscar Furlong.

FIBA World Cup awards
FIBA World Cup awards
Youth World Cup awards
Main article: FIBA Awards
Oscar Furlong won the inaugural award in 1950.

Winners
Kevin Durant won the MVP in 2010.
Kyrie Irving won the MVP in 2014.
Denotes player whose team won that years tournament
* Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
** Inducted into the FIBA Hall of Fame
*** Inducted into both the Naismith and FIBA Halls of Fame
Denotes player who is still active
Player (X) Denotes the number of times the player had been named MVP at that time
Team (X) Denotes the number of times a player from this team had won at that time
Year Player Position Team Ref.
1950 Oscar Furlong**
Center
  Argentina [1]
1954 Kirby Minter
Forward
  United States [1]
1959 Amaury Pasos**
Forward
  Brazil [1]
1963 Wlamir Marques**
Forward
  Brazil (2) [1]
1967 Ivo Daneu**
Guard
  Yugoslavia [1]
1970 Sergei Belov***
Guard
  Soviet Union [1]
1974 Dragan Kićanović**
Guard
  Yugoslavia (2) [1]
1978 Dražen Dalipagić***
Forward
  Yugoslavia (3) [1]
1982 Doc Rivers
Guard
  United States (2) [1]
1986 Dražen Petrović***
Guard
  Yugoslavia (4) [1]
1990 Toni Kukoč***
Forward
  Yugoslavia (5) [1]
1994 Shaquille O'Neal***
Center
  United States (3) [1]
1998 Dejan Bodiroga
Forward
 Serbia and Montenegro FR Yugoslavia [1]
2002 Dirk Nowitzki*
Forward
  Germany [1]
2006 Pau Gasol*
Center
  Spain [2]
2010 Kevin Durant
Forward
  United States (4) [3]
2014 Kyrie Irving
Guard
  United States (5) [4]
2019 Ricky Rubio
Guard
  Spain (2) [5]
2023 Dennis Schröder
Guard
  Germany (2) [6]

See also

References
  1. "History, All time Medallists". fiba.com. Archived from the original on August 16, 2017.
  2. "Gasol named MVP, headlines All-Tournament Team". FIBA. Retrieved 3 September 2006.
  3. "USA - Durant named tournament MVP". FIBA. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
  4. "Irving joins select company of MVPs". FIBA. Retrieved 19 September 2014.
  5. "TISSOT Most Valuable Player Rubio headlines the All-Star Five". FIBA. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
  6. "Dennis Schroder named FIBA Basketball World Cup 2023 TISSOT MVP". FIBA. 10 September 2023. Retrieved 10 September 2023.
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