Cleveland Cavaliers guard Kyrie Irving was named the USA Basketball Male Athlete of the Year on Sunday.
Irving - Most Valuable Player at the FIBA Basketball World Cup in September - received the accolade after helping Team USA to a fifth world title in Spain.
USA Basketball's board of directors selected the 22-year-old, who started all nine games for the Americans, averaging 12.1 points, 2.6 rebounds, 3.6 assists and 1.9 steals per game.
Irving earned MVP honours after posting a game-high 26 points in the final against Serbia.
"It's truly an honour and a blessing to be among such a great lineage of award winners, and USA Basketball was the best experience of my life thus far, just being a part of a team that's bigger than myself," Irving said after Cleveland's 105-91 win over the Memphis Grizzlies on Sunday.
"The sacrifice we all had to make in order to make that team work and the adversity that we faced – and we came home with a gold medal.
"We were together through it all, and we won a gold medal together, so I'm going to remember it for the rest of my life."
Team USA coach Mike Krzyzewski, who was named the USA Basketball Co-National Coach of the Year was full of praise for Irving.
"I think Kyrie came of age," said Krzyzewski.
"He's a terrific player but he became a great player during the summer of 2014.
"I think sometimes to become that great player, you need a stage to do it on, and the stage was the World Cup. He performed his best on that stage and now that's the level he is expected to play at. I'm really proud of him."