Best players of Saudi Arabian SBL round 15

- January 20, 2026

POSTED BY: Eurobasket News

Vante Hendrix

Vante Hendrix

American Vante Hendrix (196-G-1998, agency: BIG) had a very impressive game in the last round for Mudhar and that's him to receive a Hoops Agents Player of the Week award for round 15.
The 27-year old guard had a double-double of 39 points and 11 rebounds, while his team crushed Ohod (#10, 1-14) with 23-point margin 99-76. Mudhar maintains the 7th position in Saudi Arabian SBL. Mudhar is rather a weak team placed in lower part in the standings. They need more victories to improve their 5-10 record. In the team's last game Hendrix had a remarkable 71.4% from 2-point range. He turned to be Mudhar's top player in his first season with the team. California State University Northridge graduate has very impressive stats this year. Hendrix is in league's top in points (3rd best: 24.1ppg), assists (3rd best: 5.5apg) and averages solid 64.0% FGP.

The second most remarkable performance in last round's games was another Mudhar's star - young Nigerian center Jason Jitoboh (211-C-2001, agency: JCK Sports Group). Jitoboh impressed basketball fans with a double-double of 24 points and 15 rebounds. Of course together with Hendrix he helped Mudhar with another comfortable win outscoring the lower-ranked Ohod (#10, 1-14) 99-76. Mudhar's 7th position in the standings has not changed. His team is not often considered as one of the league's best with a mere 5-10 record. Jitoboh is a newcomer at Mudhar and it seems he did not have too much trouble to become one of team's leaders. He belongs to the best scorers in the league with 21.1ppg (#8). His other stats are also decent: 11.2rpg and 3.3apg.

The third best performed player last round was Senegalese Ibrahima Sankare (203-F-1996) of Al Khewaildia (#8). Sankare got into 30-points club by scoring 31 points in the last round. He went also for sixteen rebounds and four assists. Despite Sankare's great performance the Al Khewaildia lost 65-109 to the league's current leader Al-Ula (#1, 15-0). But his team cannot count on just a single shooter as he also needs help of the other teammates. Al Khewaildia can only dream about fighting for top spots in the league. They have rather bad season and 3-12 record places them close to the bottom of the standings. Sankare has individually a great season in Saudi Arabia. After 15 games, he made it on the list of the league's leaders in points with 22.7ppg (5th best) and assists with 4.9apg (6th best).

Other top performing players last week:
4. Lazar Nekic (213-C-1999) of Al Fateh - 27 points, 17 rebounds and 4 assists
5. Erick Neal (178-PG-1995) of Al Ittihad - 28 points, 6 rebounds and 10 assists
6. Alex Young (198-F-1989) of Al Salam - 36 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists
7. Khalid Abdel-Gabar (188-G-1990) of Al Ahli - 17 points, 6 rebounds and 11 assists
8. Mohammed Alhawsawi) of Ohod - 22 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists
9. Mohammed Alsuwailem (211-C-1998) of Al-Ula - 14 points, 10 rebounds and 5 assists
10. Kaleb Thornton (183-PG-1999) of Al Khaleej - 30 points, 7 rebounds and 2 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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