Best Defender I Thomas Walkup | EuroLeague 2023-24 | Highlights

Ο μπασκετμπολίστας του Ολυμπιακού, Thomas Ryan Walkup, κατέκτησε το βραβείο του κορυφαίου αμυντικού (EuroLeague Best Defender Trophy) της περασμένης αγωνιστικής περιόδου (2023-2024) στην EuroLeague και η διοργανώτρια αρχή μας παρουσιάζει σε βίντεο τις καλύτερες στιγμές του...

EuroLeague: «Thomas Walkup of Olympiacos Piraeus is the recipient of the 2023-24 EuroLeague Best Defender Trophy, the first end-of-season award of his career.

Walkup has achieved this honor after a vote conducted among EuroLeague head coaches.

With his relentless effort, aggressive and disruptive perimeter defense, and ball-hawking of the opposition's most creators, Walkup anchored Olympiacos's top-ranked scoring defense, which allowed a league-low 74.4 points per game on its way to a third consecutive Final Four berth.

Walkup picked up more steals than any other player this season -60 and counting- good for a 1.6 average, second-best in the league.

He was accountable for 21.7% of all steals that Olympiacos recorded this season.

The Best Defender Trophy is one of several end-of-season awards that recognize the elite play of the best players in the EuroLeague.

The first of this season's honorees was Markus Howard of Baskonia Vitoria-Gasteiz as the winner of Alphonso Ford Top Scorer Trophy.

Gabriele Procida of ALBA Berlin was chosen as the EuroLeague Rising Star, another award voted upon by the head coaches.

The identity of the All-EuroLeague teams will be revealed shortly, as will the EuroLeague MVP and Coach of the Year awards.

The Executive of the Year award will be announced in the summer.»