VTB United League Defensive Player of the Year

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^§	^[1]
2014–15	Andrey Vorontsevich	PF	Russia	CSKA Moscow^§	^[2]
2015–16	Kyle Hines	C	United States	CSKA Moscow^§	^[3]
2016–17	Nikita Kurbanov	SF	Russia	CSKA Moscow^§	^[4]
2017–18	Dmitry Kulagin	SG	Russia	Lokomotiv Kuban	^[5]
2018–19	Maurice Ndour	PF	Senegal	UNICS	^[6]
2019–20	Not awarded ¹
2020–21	John Brown	F	United States	UNICS	^[7]
2021–22	Jordan Mickey	C / PF	United States	Zenit Saint Petersburg^§	^[8]
2022–23	Evgeny Baburin	SG	Russia	Pari Nizhny Novgorod	^[9]

Notes:

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

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^ "Nikita Kurbanov Wins Defensive Player Of The Year". Vtb-league.com. Retrieved 5 May 2017.
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^ "Maurice Ndour Wins Defensive Player Of The Year". VTB United League. 24 May 2019. Retrieved 28 May 2019.
^ "John Brown III named 2020/21 Defensive Player of The Year". VTB United League. 6 May 2021. Retrieved 7 May 2021.
^ "Джордан Мики – лучший защищающийся игрок в сезоне 2021/22" (in Russian). VTB United League. 8 May 2022. Retrieved 8 May 2022.
^ "Evgenii Baburin is the Defensive Player of the Year!". VTB United League. 2 April 2023. Retrieved 2 April 2023.