The Euroscar was first awarded in 1979, and 21 of the first 23 winners were born in the Soviet Union or Yugoslavia. Thereafter,
Dirk Nowitzki of Germany and
Pau Gasol of Spain won eleven times between them, and an Eastern European has won the award only four times in the past twenty years. won six Euroscar Awards between 1984 and 1999. The early winners of the Euroscar played primarily for
EuroLeague clubs. Since
Dražen Petrović won his third award in 1992, while playing for the
New Jersey Nets, only four Euroscar winners (Sabonis in 1995,
Gregor Fučka in 2000, Kirilenko in 2012, and Teodosić in 2016) played in a European league during the year they won the award, and only Fučka and Teodosić did not play in the NBA for any part of their award-winning years. , three players have won five or more Euroscars: Sabonis (six), Nowitzki (six), and
Toni Kukoč (five). Nowitzki holds the record for most consecutive wins with five. Seven Euroscar winners have been inducted into the
FIBA Hall of Fame:
Tkachenko, Sabonis, Petrović,
Dražen Dalipagić,
Dino Meneghin,
Dragan Kićanović and
Nikos Galis. Sabonis, Petrović, Dalipagić, Galis and Meneghin are also in the
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. One pair of brothers have each won the award: the Spaniards
Pau and
Marc Gasol. As of the 2019–20 basketball season, the Gasols,
Antetokounmpo,
Goran Dragić and Dončić are the only award winners still active in the NBA. , Nowitzki and Antetokounmpo are also the only players to win the Euroscar Award and the
NBA Most Valuable Player Award, albeit in different seasons. Kukoč (
1996,
1998), Nowitzki (
2011), Parker (
2007) and Pau Gasol (
2009–
10) all won NBA titles in their Euroscar-winning years; Kukoč and Gasol are the only players to do so more than once. Dalipagić (
1980) and Sabonis (
1988) won Olympic gold medals and a Euroscar in the same year. ==Award winners==