The ABA League Finals MVP award, also known as the Adriatic League Finals MVP award (formerly the Final Four MVP), is an annual award that is given to the most valuable player of the finals of the European regional Adriatic ABA League, which is the top-tier level professional basketball league for countries of the former Yugoslavia. The award has been given since the 2001–02 ABA League season.
The Adriatic ABA League started in nineteen hundred ninety six.
It's never mentioned explicitly when the league started, except that it must have started at least on or before 2001. It's difficult because I wrote out the year in words.