BAL Most Valuable Player

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Basketball Africa League awards and honours
Individual awards
Honors
BAL Most Valuable Player Award
SportBasketball
LeagueBasketball Africa League
Awarded forBest performing player in the season of the Basketball Africa League
History
First award2021
Most wins5 players (1 each)
Most recentJean Jacques Boissy (2025)

The Basketball Africa League Hakeem Olajuwon Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) is an annual Basketball Africa League (BAL) award given to the best player of a given season. The award is named after all-time great Hakeem Olajuwon. The award was first handed out in the inaugural season to Walter Hodge.[1]

From the 2024 season, fan voting was introduced in the process with 25% of the score being determined by online fan votes. Fans could vote on a selected pool of players.[2]

Five different players have won the award thus far.[3]

Winners

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Key
Player (X) Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one)
† Player was on a team that did not win the BAL championship
File:Nuni Omot MVP (cropped).jpg
Nuni Omot with the MVP award in 2023. He was the first African player to win the award.
Season Player Position Nationality Club Selected statistics Ref
2021 Walter Hodge Guard File:Flag of the United States Virgin Islands.svg US Virgin Islands[a] Egypt Zamalek
  • 15.2 points, 4.4 rebounds and 5.8 assists per game
  • 19 points and 10 assists in semi-final
  • 12 points and 4 assists in the final
 [1][4]
2022 Michael Dixon Guard File:Flag of Georgia.svg Georgia[b] Tunisia US Monastir
  • 15.2 points, 4.4 rebounds and 5.8 assists per game
  • Led the league in three-point percentage with 47.4%
  • 21 points and 6 assists in the final
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2023 Nuni Omot Forward File:Flag of South Sudan.svg South Sudan[c] Egypt Al Ahly
  • 18.9 points per game
  • Four 20+ points games
  • 22 points in the final
 [3][7]
2024 Jo Lual-Acuil Center File:Flag of South Sudan.svg South Sudan Libya Al Ahly Ly† [8]
2025 Jean Jacques Boissy Guard File:Flag of Senegal.svg Senegal Libya Al Ahli Tripoli [9]

Notes

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  1. ^ Hodge, born in Puerto Rico, also owns the Puerto Rican and American nationality but represents the US Virgin Islands in international competition.
  2. ^ Dixon was born in the United States but became a naturalised Georgian citizen in 2016.
  3. ^ Omot was born to South Sudanese parents in a refugee camp in Nairobi, Kenya. He also owns the American nationality as he moved to the country at age 2.[6] He represents South Sudan in international competition.

References

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