title: VTB United League Defensive Player of the Year
text: # VTB United League Defensive Player of the Year
  
  VTB United League awards and honours :
  
  Individual awards :
  
  MVP
  
  Playoffs MVP
  
  Top Scorer
  
  Defensive Player of the Year
  
  Sixth Man of the Year
  
  Supercup
  
  Top National Players
  
  Young Player of the Year
  
  Coach of the Year
  
  Hall of Fame
  
  All-Star Game :
  
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  The VTB United League Defensive Player of the Year is an annual VTB United League award given since the 2013–14 VTB United League season to the league's best defender.
  
  ## Winners
  
  Key :
  
  | Player (X) | Name of the player and number of times they had won the award at that point (if more than one) |
  | - | - |
  | † | Indicates multiple award winners in the same season |
  | § | Denotes the club were the league champions in the same season |
  | Season | Player | Pos. | Nationality | Team | Ref(s) |
  | 2013–14 | Sasha Kaun | C | Russia | CSKA $Moscow^§$ | |
  | 2014–15 | Andrey Vorontsevich | PF | Russia | CSKA $Moscow^§$ | |
  | 2015–16 | Kyle Hines | C | United States | CSKA $Moscow^§$ | |
  | 2016–17 | Nikita Kurbanov | SF | Russia | CSKA $Moscow^§$ | |
  | 2017–18 | Dmitry Kulagin | SG | Russia | Lokomotiv Kuban | |
  | 2018–19 | Maurice Ndour | PF | Senegal | UNICS | |
  | 2019–20 | Not awarded | Not awarded | Not awarded | Not awarded | Not awarded |
  | 2020–21 | John Brown | F | United States | UNICS | |
  | 2021–22 | Jordan Mickey | C / PF | United States | Zenit Saint $Petersburg^§$ | |
  | 2022–23 | Evgeny Baburin | SG | Russia | Pari Nizhny Novgorod | |
  
  Notes:
  
      ^1 There was no awarding in the 2019–20, because the season was cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic in Europe.
  