Andrew Gaze - Records and Awards

Records and Awards

  • Record for most Olympic Games for an Australian basketballer (5 - 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000) and was given the honor of carrying the Australian Flag for the Australian team at the 2000 Summer Olympics Closing Ceremony in Sydney
  • Scored 18,908 points in the NBL over 612 games in a 22-season span at an average of 30.9 points per game
  • Received Most Valuable Player (MVP) award a record 7 times
  • Australian International Player of the Year (1990, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1998, 2000)
  • won the NBL Most Efficient Player award every year from 1990 to 1997. The award was then discontinued, making Gaze the only ever person to win the award.
  • He was named one of FIBA's 50 Greatest Players in 1991.
  • Crowned Moomba Monarch (popularly called King of Moomba) by the Melbourne festival committee in 1994.
  • Former Consultation Committee Member of the Human Rights Consultation Committee of Victoria which formulated the Draft Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities, a precursor to the Victorian Charter of Rights.

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