Greek Basketball League Best Defender

The Greek Basketball League Best Defender, or Greek League Best Defender, is an annual award for the best defensive player of each season of Greece's top-tier level professional basketball club league, the Greek Basketball League (GBL).

Winners

Nick Calathes (on the right, #33 in green and white) was the Greek League Best Defender three times (2016, 2017, 2018).

Thomas Walkup was the Greek League Best Defender two times (2022, 2023).

Kostas Papanikolaou shared the Best Defender award with Nick Calathes in 2017.

Season	Best Defender	Club	Ref.
2006–07	Michalis Pelekanos	Panellinios
2007–08	Dimitris Diamantidis	Panathinaikos
2008–09	Dimitris Diamantidis (2×)	Panathinaikos
2009–10	Josh Childress	Olympiacos
2010–11	Dimitris Diamantidis (3×)	Panathinaikos
2011–12	Joey Dorsey	Olympiacos
2012–13	Stéphane Lasme	Panathinaikos
2013–14	Stéphane Lasme (2×)	Panathinaikos
2014–15	/ Bryant Dunston	Olympiacos
2015–16	/ Nick Calathes	Panathinaikos
2016–17	/ Nick Calathes (2×)	Panathinaikos	[1]
	Kostas Papanikolaou	Olympiacos
2017–18	/ Nick Calathes (3×)	Panathinaikos
2018–19	Howard Sant-Roos	AEK Athens	[2]
2019–20	Not awarded 1
2020–21	Howard Sant-Roos (2×)	Panathinaikos
2021–22	/ Thomas Walkup	Olympiacos
2022–23	/ Thomas Walkup (2×)	Olympiacos
2023–24	Jerian Grant	Panathinaikos
2024–25	Jerian Grant (2×)	Panathinaikos

Notes:

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

References

1. Ο Ν. Καλάθης Καλύτερος Αμυντικός της STOIXIMAN.GR Basket League (in Greek).
2. Basket League: Καλύτερος αμυντικός ο Σαντ-Ρος (in Greek).

External links

• Official Greek Basket League Site (in Greek)
• Official Greek Basket League YouTube Channel (in Greek)
• Official Hellenic Basketball Federation Site (in Greek)
• Basketblog.gr (in Greek)
• GreekBasketball.gr (in Greek)