Australian International Player of the Year
Australian basketball award
The Australian International Player of the Year (or Gaze Medal) is an award for the best player of the Australia men's national basketball team, given annually between 1988 and 2012 and then in World Cup and Olympic years from 2014 onwards. The voting for the award is done by the players after each international match and is named after father-son duo Lindsay Gaze and Andrew Gaze.
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