Greek Basket League Best Defender

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

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

Notes:

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

References

External links

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)

[1] Ο Ν. Καλάθης Καλύτερος Αμυντικός της STOIXIMAN.GR Basket League (in Greek).

[2] Basket League: Καλύτερος αμυντικός ο Σαντ-Ρος (in Greek).

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