The award is broken. Kim Dan-bi, who won eight regular league awards, also decorated the beauty of Round MVP Yoo Jong...Lee Yunmi's first MIP in her life

Feb 25, 2025

The women's professional basketball regular league award ceremony was held at the Seoul Dragon City Hotel on the afternoon of the 24th. Woori Bank's Kim Dan-bi, who won the regular league MVP and eight gold medals, is posing. Yongsan = Reporter Song Jeong-heon @sportschosun.com/2025.02.24/

The women's professional basketball regular league award ceremony was held at the Seoul Dragon City Hotel on the afternoon of the 24th. Woori Bank's Kim Dan-bi, who won the regular league MVP award. Yongsan = Reporter Song Jeong-heon @sportschosun.com/2025.02.24/

Kim Dan-bi (Woori Bank), who swept various awards including the Most Valuable Player (MVP) at the 'Hana Bank 2024-2025 Women's Professional Basketball' regular league awards ceremony, also won the MVP of the last 6 rounds of the regular league.

The Korean Women's Basketball Federation (WKBL) announced on the 25th that "Kim Dan-bi won the MVP and Lee Yun-mi won the MIP (Technical Power Award) as a result of the 6th round MVP and MIP vote."

Kim Dan-bi won 59 out of 87 votes in the round MVP vote in which media reporters participated, beating KB's Kang Yi-seul (11 votes) by 48 votes. At the regular league awards ceremony held the previous day, Kim Dan-bi won the MVP, the highest honor, the Best 5, Outstanding Defensive Player, the Score, the Rebound, the Block Award, the Steel Award, and the highest contribution award, becoming the second eight-time winner in WKBL history after Park Ji-soo (then KB) in the 2023-2024 season.

In the round MVP vote, Kim Dan-bi also won the round MVP four times, from the first, second, and fifth rounds to the sixth round, completing the 2024-2025 season with a 'Kim Dan-bi world'.

As the sixth unanimous MVP award in the history of the regular league awards tells us, Kim Dan-bi played an average of 31 minutes and 22 seconds in five games in the sixth round, scoring an average of 17.8 points,

He led Woori Bank to an early victory with 10.2 rebounds, 2.8 interceptions, 2.8 assists and 2.0 blocks.

In particular, he was unbeatable enough to rank first in the average score, rebound, interception, and block shot in six rounds.

This is the 16th time in his career that Kim Dan-bi has won the round MVP, ranking second after Park Ji-soo (18 times) in the number of wins.

Lee Yun-mi won the MIP for the first time since her professional debut in the 2018-2019 season. The round MIP is selected by voting for the WKBL judges and game management personnel, with Lee Yun-mi winning 12 out of 34 votes and three votes ahead of Hana Bank's Park So-hee (9 votes).

Reporter Choi Man-sik cms@sportschosun.com

This article was translated by Naver AI translator.