Her most valuable player Stoiximan Basket League for the 2023/2024 competition season, the Kostas Sloukasas announced by ESAKE.
His guard Panathinaikos AKTOR had an excellent year in the league as well, averaging 8 points, 1.6 rebounds and 3.8 assists in 25 games.
The 34-year-old wins yet another individual award, after he had also won MVP in the Euroleague Final Four.
In detail, the ESAKE announcement:
“For the “first” time in his career, Kostas Sloukas is named Stoiximan MVP of the Season of the Stoiximan Basket League!
The 34-year-old Thessaloniki guard “succeeds” his former teammate Sasha Vezenkov, who was named MVP for two consecutive seasons (2021-22 and 2022-23), and is named Stoiximan MVP after winning the MVP award in the Euroleague Final Four in Berlin.
Slukas, who led Panathinaikos AKTOR to win the Stoiximan Basket League after two years and the Euroleague after 13, led all Stoiximan Basket League Awards voting for Stoiximan MVP of the Season.
The … captain of the greens in the voting of the captains and coaches of the teams of the 32nd Professional Championship got 9 votes (40.9%) against 6 of his Panathinaikos AKTOR teammate Kendrick Nunn (27.27%).
In the media poll, Slukas collected 18 votes (41.86%) compared to 16 for Nunn (37.20%) and 4 for Green teammate Gerryan Grant (9.3%). .
In the fans’ vote, Slukas got 786 votes (29.2%) and second was Aris Midea’s Vassilis Toliopoulos with 502 (18.6%). Nan is third with 384 (14.28%).
“This particular award is a very big honor for me”, said the captain of Panathinaikos AKTOR on his selection as Stoiximan MVP of the Season and emphasized: “I would like to thank all the teammates, coaches and fans who they voted for me. It is a personal reward, which obviously takes a second place as the most important thing is the progress of the team.”
“The year was completely successful, the most successful of my career, as we were at the top of Europe but also at the top of Greece”, pointed out Slukas and continued: “Against everyone and everything. Honestly, I feel proud to have been part of this golden page in the history of Panathinaikos. In the summer I made a particularly difficult decision for many reasons. Coming to Panathinaikos things were not easy for us as Olympiacos dominated. However, with the presence of the coach, mine and all the children, we managed to dominate everywhere”.
“I would like to thank them very much for the support they provided to the team throughout the season”, is the message of the 34-year-old guard to the friends of the “greens”. Sloukas then underlined: “He was really our ‘sixth player’ and he gave us a boost especially in the difficult periods we went through and in the end we justified him. I am sure that their support will be similar in the next season as well, where the demands will be particularly high.”».
Source: Sport Fm
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