The "Mr. New York Basketball" award, the top honor in the sport, is presented annually to a deserving high school senior by the Basketball Coaches Association of New York, which includes scholastic and collegiate coaches from across the state.

   Previous recipients of the award:

2010 - Tobias Harris (Half Hollow Hills West)
2009 - Brandon Triche (Jamesville-DeWitt) and Lance Stephenson (Abraham Lincoln)
2008 - Sylven Landesberg (Holy Cross)
2007 - Jonny Flynn (Niagara Falls)
2006 - Jonathan Mitchell (Mount Vernon)

2005 - Greg Paulus, (Syracuse CBA)
2004 - Sebastian Telfair (Abraham Lincoln)
2003 - Tyler Relph (Rochester McQuaid)
2002 - Jason Fraser (Amityville)
2001 - Julius Hodge (St. Raymond’s)

2000 – Peter Mulligan (St. Raymond’s)
1999 - Leonard Stoke (Buffalo Turner-Carroll)
1998 - Anthony Glover (Rice)
1997 - Elton Brand (Peekskill)
1996 - Willie Dersch (Holy Cross)

1995 - Stephon Marbury (Lincoln)
1994 - Felipe Lopez (Rice)
1993 - Danya Abrams (Hackley School)
1992 - John Wallace (Greece Athena)
1991 - Terrence Rencher (St. Raymond's)

1990 - Jamal Mashburn (Cardinal Hayes)
1989 - Kenny Anderson (Archbishop Molloy)
1988 - Malik Sealy (Tolentine)
1987 - Greg Koubek (Shenendehowa) and King Rice (Binghamton)
1986 - Keith Robinson (Buffalo Grover Cleveland)