Official: The “Ford” award to the leading scorer of the Euroleague, Sasha Vezenkov

First “award” for him Sasha Vezenkov. His ace Olympiakou won the “Alphonso Ford” award, which is given in memory of the legendary ace who also wore the red and white to the top scorer of the season in the Euroleague.

The Bulgarian international he had 17.24 points in the 38 games he played with Piraeus in the regular season and playoffs, leading his team to the Final 4. Second, at breathing distance, finished Wade Baldwinonce a player of Olympiakos and now of Maccabi, with 17.17 points per game, while third was Will Clyburn of Efes with 16.7 points.

Vezenkov, who was 13th in scoring last year with 13.7 points per game, set a season high with 28 points in Game 24 in a win over Alba, while had double-digit points in 33 of his 38 appearances. At the same time, he was first in evaluation throughout the Euroleague with 21.2 and second in rebounds with 6.8.

Now it’s done only the second Olympiakos player to receive this award after Linas Kleiza in 2009/10. He is now the 14th different Alphonso Ford winner and succeeds last year’s winner, Vasilije Micic, who ended up winning the EuroLeague as well as the Final 4 MVP award.