NBL Most Valuable Player Award

The National Basketball League Most Valuable Player Award (MVP) is an annual National Basketball League (NBL) award given since the league's inaugural season to the best performing player of the regular season. As of the 2023–24 season, coaches and captains from each team, and a panel of experts, vote for the MVP.^[1] The votes are collated and the individual with the most votes at the end of the regular season is awarded the Most Valuable Player.^[2] The winner receives the Andrew Gaze Trophy,^[3][4] which is named in honour of Australian basketball legend Andrew Gaze, a seven-time winner of the NBL MVP award.^[2]

Winners

Andrew Gaze won the award seven times

Bryce Cotton is a five-time winner of the award

Season	Player	Nationality	Team
1979	Ken Richardson	United States	West Adelaide Bearcats (1)
1980	Rocky Smith	United States	St. Kilda Saints (1)
1981	Mike Jones	United States	Illawarra Hawks (1)
1982	Al Green	United States	West Adelaide Bearcats (2)
1983	Owen Wells	United States	Sydney Supersonics (1)
1984	Leroy Loggins	United States	Brisbane Bullets (1)
1985	Ray Borner	Australia	Coburg Giants (1)
1986	Leroy Loggins (2)	United States	Brisbane Bullets (2)
1987	Mark Davis Leroy Loggins (3)	United States  United States	Adelaide 36ers (1) Brisbane Bullets (3)
1988	Joe Hurst	United States	Hobart Devils (1)
1989	Scott Fisher	United States	North Melbourne Giants (1)
1990	Derek Rucker	United States	Brisbane Bullets (4)
1991	Andrew Gaze	Australia	Melbourne Tigers (1)
1992	Scott Fisher (2) Andrew Gaze (2)	United States  Australia	North Melbourne Giants (2) Melbourne Tigers (2)
1993	Robert Rose	United States	South East Melbourne Magic (1)
1994	Andrew Gaze (3)	Australia	Melbourne Tigers (3)
1995	Andrew Gaze (4)	Australia	Melbourne Tigers (4)
1996	Andrew Gaze (5)	Australia	Melbourne Tigers (5)
1997	Andrew Gaze (6)	Australia	Melbourne Tigers (6)
1998	Andrew Gaze (7)	Australia	Melbourne Tigers (7)
1998–99	Steve Woodberry	United States	Brisbane Bullets (5)
1999–2000	Paul Rodgers	Australia	Perth Wildcats (1)
2000–01	Robert Rose (2)	United States	Townsville Crocodiles (1)
2001–02	Mark Bradtke	Australia	Melbourne Tigers (8)
2002–03	Chris Williams	United States	Sydney Kings (1)
2003–04	Matthew Nielsen	Australia	Sydney Kings (2)
2004–05	Brian Wethers	United States	Hunter Pirates (1)
2005–06	Chris Anstey	Australia	Melbourne Tigers (9)
2006–07	Sam Mackinnon	Australia	Brisbane Bullets (6)
2007–08	Chris Anstey (2)	Australia	Melbourne Tigers (10)
2008–09	Kirk Penney	New Zealand	New Zealand Breakers (1)
2009–10	Corey Williams	United States	Townsville Crocodiles (2)
2010–11	Gary Ervin	United States	Wollongong Hawks (2)
2011–12	Kevin Lisch	United States	Perth Wildcats (2)
2012–13	Cedric Jackson	United States	New Zealand Breakers (2)
2013–14	Rotnei Clarke	United States	Wollongong Hawks (3)
2014–15	Brian Conklin	United States	Townsville Crocodiles (3)
2015–16	Kevin Lisch (2)	United States	Illawarra Hawks (4)
2016–17	Jerome Randle	United States	Adelaide 36ers (2)
2017–18	Bryce Cotton	United States	Perth Wildcats (3)
2018–19	Andrew Bogut	Australia	Sydney Kings (3)
2019–20	Bryce Cotton (2)	United States	Perth Wildcats (4)
2020–21	Bryce Cotton (3)	United States	Perth Wildcats (5)
2021–22	Jaylen Adams	United States	Sydney Kings (4)
2022–23	Xavier Cooks	Australia	Sydney Kings (5)
2023–24	Bryce Cotton (4)	United States	Perth Wildcats (6)
2024–25	Bryce Cotton (5)	United States	Perth Wildcats (7)

Multi-time winners

Rank	Player	Team(s)	Awards	Years
1	Andrew Gaze	Melbourne Tigers	7	1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998
2	Bryce Cotton	Perth Wildcats	5	2018, 2020, 2021, 2024, 2025
3	Leroy Loggins	Brisbane Bullets	3	1984, 1986, 1987
4	Scott Fisher	North Melbourne Giants	2	1989, 1992
	Robert Rose	South East Melbourne Magic, Townsville Crocodiles		1993, 2001
	Chris Anstey	Melbourne Tigers		2006, 2008
	Kevin Lisch	Perth Wildcats, Illawarra Hawks		2012, 2016

See also

• List of National Basketball League (Australia) awards