Sasha Vezenkovpower forward for Greek Olympiacos, He has been awarded the Alphonso Ford trophy for the best scorer in the 2022/23 Euroleague, with an average of 17.24 points on average. The Bulgarian-Hellenic player beat Americans Wade Baldwinguard of Maccabi Tel Aviv, who averaged 17.17 points per game, and Will ClyburnAnadolu Efes Istanbul forward, who achieved an average of 16.7.
Vezenkov, key in Olympiacos’ qualification for the EuroLeague finals after finishing the league phase in first place and then beating Fenerbahçe in the quarterfinals, he scored at least twenty points in each of his first four games and fifteen times in 33 games in the regular season. His best record of the season came on matchday twenty-four, when he scored 28 points against Alba Berlin, a game in which he added thirteen rebounds in one of his eight double-doubles. He also scored double figures in every game of the five of his 28 games this season.
Last season he was 13th in scoring with 13.7 points per game, second in rebounding (6.8) and topped the average performance index with 21.2. Vezenkov is the second Olympiacos player to win the Ford Trophy after Linas Kleiza, winner in the 2009-10 season. He is the 14th recipient of the award since it was first awarded in 2005.
Three players did it more than once: Igor Rakocevic He did it with Baskonia in 2007 and 2009 and with Anadolu Efes in 2011; Keith Langford with Olimpia Milan in 2014 and with UNICS Kazan in 2017; and Alexey Shved with Khimki in 2018 and 2021.