Basketball Bundesliga Best German Young Player

The Basketball Bundesliga Best German Young Player (German: Bester Deutscher Nachwuchsspieler) is an annual Basketball Bundesliga award that goes to the league's most valuable player who is under age 22, and has German nationality. The award was handed out for the first time in the 2001–02 season, as the Rookie of the Year award.

Winners

Player (X)	Denotes the number of times the player has won the award

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Season	Player	Pos.	Team	Ref
Rookie of the Year (2001–02 to 2009–10)
2001–02	Marcus Goree	C	Skyliners Frankfurt
2002–03	Szymon Szewczyk	PF	Braunschweig
2003–04	Aleksandar Ćapin	PG	Telekom Baskets Bonn
2004–05	Koko Archibong	SF	Brose Baskets
2005–06	Anton Gavel	SG	Gießen 46ers
2006–07	Nicolai Simon	SG	ALBA Berlin
2007–08	Philipp Schwethelm	SF	Köln 99ers
2008–09	Per Günther	PG	ratiopharm Ulm
2009–10	Tibor Pleiß	C	Brose Baskets
Best German Player Under–24 (2010–11 to 2012–13)
2010–11	Tibor Pleiß (2)	C	Brose Baskets
2011–12	Maik Zirbes	C	TBB Trier	^[1]
2012–13	Dennis Schröder	PG	New Yorker Phantoms Braunschweig	^[2]
Best German Player Under–23 (2013–14 to 2014–15)
2013–14	Daniel Theis	C	ratiopharm ulm	^[3]
2014–15	Johannes Voigtmann	C	Fraport Skyliners	^[4]
Best German Player Under–22 (2015–16 to present)
2015–16	Paul Zipser	SF	Bayern Munich	^[5]
2016–17	İsmet Akpınar	PG	ALBA Berlin	^[6]
2017–18	Andreas Obst	G	Rockets
2018–19	Franz Wagner	F	Alba Berlin	^[7]
2019–20	No award was given, due to the shortened season because of the COVID-19 pandemic.^[8]
2020–21	Justus Hollatz	PG	Hamburg Towers	^[9]
2021–22	Justus Hollatz (2)	PG	Hamburg Towers	^[10]
2022–23	Malte Delow	G/F	Alba Berlin	^[11]
2023–24	Johann Grünloh	C	Rasta Vechta	^[12]