Chinese NBL round 28 best performance: Baylee Steele

- March 21, 2026

POSTED BY: Eurobasket News

Baylee Steele

Baylee Steele

American Center Baylee Steele (213-C-1997, agency: Octagon Europe) put on an extraordinary performance in the last round for Hubei Wenlv, receiving a Hoops Agents NBL Player of the Week award for round 28.
The 28-year old player had a double-double of 36 points and 17 rebounds, while his team beat Zhangjiakou (#14, 0-25), the league's bottom-ranked team 107-97. The game rather meaningless between the teams, which do not have any influence on top of the standings. Hubei maintains the 12th position in Chinese NBL. Hubei is rather a weak team placed in lower part in the standings. They need more victories to improve their 9-16 record. In the team's last game Steele had a remarkable 61.9% from 2-point range. He just recently signed at Hubei, being already a very valuable addition to the team. Former University of Duquesne star has very solid stats this year. Steele is in league's top in points (4th best: 24.3ppg), rebounds (6th best: 11.1rpg) and averages impressive 55.1% FGP.

The second best player in last round's games was young Greek Dimitrios Agravanis (208-F-1994, agency: Diamond Sports) of league's second-best Hefei Kuangfeng. Agravanis had a very good evening with 44 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists. Bad luck as Hefei was edged by the lower-ranked Jiangsu (#9, 12-13) 111-108. Hefei managed to keep the same second spot in the standings. It was just his team's 5th loss this season, while they won 20 other games. Agravanis is a newcomer at Hefei, but is already one of team's top players.

Third on the list of top players last round was American guard Niven Glover (196-G-2000) of Jiangxi Ganchi (#6). Glover got into 30-points club by scoring 31 points in the last round. He went also for nine rebounds and eight assists. He was a key player of Jiangxi, leading his team to a 115-106 win against slightly higher-ranked Hunan (#4, 14-11). Jiangxi needs these victories very badly if they think about getting closer to top teams. Their record at this point is 13 victories and 12 lost games. Glover has a great season in China. After 19 games, he made it on the list of the league's leaders in points with 30.3ppg (best scorer) and assists with 4.3apg (7th best).

Other top performing players last week:
4. Rongzhen Zhu (218-C-1999) of Hangzhou - 28 points and 8 rebounds
5. Brandon McCoy (213-F-1998) of Hefei - 25 points and 13 rebounds
6. Viny Okouo (214-C-1997) of Zhangjiakou - 29 points and 11 rebounds
7. Tra Holder (185-G-1995) of Jiaozuo - 33 points and 3 assists
8. Kendall Smith (190-G-1995) of Jiangsu - 30 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists
9. Michael Bryson (193-G-1994) of Jiangxi - 26 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists
10. Noah Dickerson (207-C-1997) of Anhui W. - 16 points, 15 rebounds and 4 assists

The Player of the week is selected based on efficiency calculation, but also including game result, importance of the game, if played recorded double-double/triple-double, etc.
The efficiency formula is a combination of various formulas used by different basketball organizations/leagues. We got involved many basketball scouts and journalists to assure it's accuracy.
The formula: 1.5*PTS + 3*(REB+AST+ST+BL-TO) - 2*BSAG - 4*PF + 3*PFRV + 4*(2FGPM+3FGPM) + 1.5*FTM - 3*(2FGPA-2FGPM) - 3*(3FGPA-3FGPM) - (FTA-FTM)

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