The Euroscar European Player of the Year Award is an annual basketball award given to the year's best male European basketball player. Its name is a portmanteau of Europe and Oscar, and the award is often referred to as "European basketball’s Oscar”.
German-born power forward Dirk Nowitzki has won six Euroscar Awards.
Lithuanian center Arvydas Sabonis won six Euroscar Awards between 1984 and 1999.
Croatian player Toni Kukoč won five Euroscar Awards between 1990 and 1998.
Spanish forward/center Pau Gasol won three straight awards between 2008 and 2010. His brother Marc won the award in 2014.
Vladimir Petrovich Tkachenko is a retired Soviet and Russian professional basketball player. Tkachenko won two Summer Olympic Games medals and three FIBA World Cup medals with the senior men's Soviet Union national team. He was also named both the Euroscar and the Mr. Europa in 1979. His pro club career lasted 16 years.
Vladimir Tkachenko