By Eurohoops team/ info@eurohoops.net
On Saturday the 24th of October our voting for the best European player ended and the late great Drazen Petrovic was voted by fans from all over the world as the best player of all times in the old continent.
Τhe final standings are the following:
- Drazen Petrovic
- Arvydas Sabonis
- Toni Kukoc
- Dirk Nowitzki
- Kresimir Cosic
- Pau Gasol
- Vlade Divac
- Tony Parker
- Sarunas Marciulionis
- Dejan Bodiroga
- Nikos Galis
- Dino Radja
- Sergei Belov
- Dino Menegin
- Juan Antonio San Epifanio
A total of 16.506 votes were registered. We asked from every voter to rank the 15 legendary players from 1 to 15 and here are the first place votes each player got. As you can see the order is quite different with 10th Dejan Bodiroga and 11th placed in the total ranking Nikos Galis getting into to Top5.
- Drazen Petrovic 5829
- Arvydas Sabonis 4530
- Dejan Bodiroga 2422
- Nikos Galis 1077
- Vlade Divac 813
- Dirk Nowitzki 558
- Toni Kukoc 488
- Kresimir Cosic 331
- Pau Gasol 211
- Sarunas Marciulionis 93
- Tony Parker 74
- Sergei Belov 37
- Juan Antonio San Epifanio 24
- Dino Radja 16
- Dino Menegin 6
You may argue that the nationality of the voters played a huge role in the final result and you would be right. Ιn total voters from 158 countries were registered, but as you may have guessed most of them were Croatian and Lithuanians.
Here’s the Top10 of the countries which has participated in the voting.
- Croatia 4516
- Lithuania 3685
- Serbia 2349
- Greece 1633
- Bosnia and Herzegovina 975
- Germany 271
- Spain 242
- United Kingdom 229
- Montenegro 221
- Slovenia 172
As you can understand specially modern stars like Tony Parker and of course Pau Gasol, whose amazing performance in Eurobasket 2015 gave us the idea for this voting, didn’t have the same support from the countrymen. In any case it’s not easy to compare legends from different eras and as Eurohoops we promise that we will repeat the voting in the future, adding even more players from all European countries in order to get a result even more accurate. Still it’s questionable if the duo of Drazen Petrovic and Arvydas Sabonis will ever lose the top…