Interbasket

It’s that time of year for the IBN awards to be handed out, but first we need players to be nominated. This year we’ve added a couple categories, and we’re looking for the best players from 2007, and only accomplishments in 2007 (need help remembering? click here). Hurry, post your nominations in our forum thread, as we will only accept nominations until December 24th.

* Player of the Year: (any country)
* NBA Player of the Year: (any country)
* Euroleague Player of the Year: (any country)
* International Player of the Year: (non-US)
* U22 Player of the Year: (any country, Under 22-years-old, must not have turned 22 in 2007)
* African Player of the Year: (any African-born player)
* Asian Player of the Year: (any Asian-born player)
* European Player of the Year: (any European-born player)
* Latin American Player of the Year: (any Latin American-born player)
* North American Player of the Year: (any US/Canadian-born player)
* Oceanic/Australian Player of the Year: (any Oceanic/Australian-born player)

You may nominate three teams for the following category:
* Team of the Year: (any country)

You may nominate 3 players for the following categories (these will determine the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd teams):
* All-World Team Guard of the Year : (any country)
* All-World Team Guard of the Year : (any country)
* All-World Team Forward of the Year : (any country)
* All-World Team Forward of the Year : (any country)
* All-World Team Center of the Year : (any country)

It’s unlikely Pau Gasol will repeat this year as IBN’s Player of the Year. Will Yao Ming again dominate the Asian Player of the year category? And with Rudy Fernandez turning 22 this year, who will be the new U-22 player of the year?

So who is on your list? LeBron James, Dirk Nowitzki, Dimitris Diamantidis and Ramunas Siskauskas had fantastic years. In a lesser extent, so has Luis Scola and Tony Parker. Sure, Joaquim Gomes led Angola to the Afrobasket championships, but did he have a better year than Luc Richard Mbah A Moute of Cameroon and UCLA? What of Steve Nash, Theodoros Papaloukas, and Leandro Barbosa?

Was Andrei Kirilenko’s performance in the Eurobasket enough to overshadow his terrible playin the NBA playoffs and his subsequent dispute with the Utah Jazz? Nominate whom you think deserves an IBN award today.

Related: 2007 Interbasket Award Nomination Thread, List of 2006 IBN Award Winners, What Happened in Basketball in 2007 (Wikipedia)