EuroCup Basketball Rising Star

Main article: EuroCup Basketball Awards

The EuroCup Basketball Rising Star is an annual award of EuroCup Basketball, which is the secondary level European-wide professional club basketball league, that is given to the player that EuroCup Basketball deems its "top rising star". The EuroCup Basketball League is the European-wide professional basketball league that is one tier level below the top-tier EuroLeague. The award began in the EuroCup Basketball 2008–09 season.

Donatas Motiejūnas (in green), was the EuroCup Rising Star in 2011.

Only players who were younger than age 22, on July 1 of the summer before the season started, are eligible for the award.

Winners

Jonas Valančiūnas was the EuroCup Rising Star in 2012.

Player (X)

Denotes the number of times the player was named Rising Star.

Season	Rising Star	Team	Ref.
2008–09	Milan Mačvan	Hemofarm
2009–10	Víctor Claver	Valencia	[1]
2010–11	Donatas Motiejūnas	Treviso	[2]
2011–12	Jonas Valančiūnas	Lietuvos Rytas	[3]
2012–13	Bojan Dubljević	Valencia	[4]
2013–14	Bojan Dubljević (2)	Valencia	[5]
2014–15	Kristaps Porziņģis	Sevilla	[6]
2015–16	Mateusz Ponitka	Zielona Góra	[7]
2016–17	Rolands Šmits	Montakit Fuenlabrada	[8]
2017–18	Džanan Musa	Cedevita	[9]
2018–19	Martynas Echodas	Rytas	[10]
2019–20	Not awarded 1
2020–21	Aleksander Balcerowski	Herbalife Gran Canaria	[11]
2021–22	Khalifa Diop	Herbalife Gran Canaria	[12]
2022–23	Aleksander Balcerowski (2)	Herbalife Gran Canaria	[13]
2023–24	Zaccharie Risacher	JL Bourg	[14]
2024–25	Jean Montero	Valencia Basket	[15]

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

See also

• EuroLeague Rising Star