Knight's double-double lands him Player of the Week award

- March 24, 2026

POSTED BY: Eurobasket News

Nathan Knight

Nathan Knight

28-year old American power forward Nathan Knight (208-F/C-1997) had a great game in the last round for Sono Skygunners and receives a Hoops Agents Player of the Week award for round 44.
He had a double-double of 32 points and 16 rebounds, while his team edged out Mobis Phoebus (#8, 17-32) 90-86. Skygunners maintains the 5th position in South Korean league. Sono SG is a typical solid league team placed somewhere in the middle or a little bit lower in the standings. They need more victories to improve their 26-23 record. In the team's last game Knight had a remarkable 77.8% from 2-point range. He turned to be Skygunners's top player in his first season with the team. College of William & Mary graduate has very impressive stats this year. Knight is in league's top in points (7th best: 18.2ppg), rebounds (3rd best: 11.4rpg) and averages solid 55.9% FGP.

Second best performed player last round was Ricardo Ratliffe (203-F-1989) of Daegu KoGas Pegasus. He is naturalized American forward in his first season at Daegu. In the last game Ratliffe recorded an impressive double-double of 26 points and 17 rebounds. Bad luck as Daegu was edged by slightly higher-ranked Suwon KT (#7, 23-26) 84-82. Daegu managed to keep the same 9th spot in the standings. His team is not often considered as one of the league's best with a mere 15-34 record. Ratliffe is a newcomer at Daegu and quickly became one of team's most reliable players.

Third place about best performers goes to forward Kerem Kanter (208-F/C-1995) of Seoul Samsung Thunders (#10). Kanter showcased his all-around game by recording 27 points, 18 rebounds (!!!) and 6 assists in the last round. Despite Kanter's great performance the Samsung Thunders lost 81-100 to the higher-ranked KCC Egis (#6, 25-24). But his team cannot count on just a single shooter as he also needs help of the other teammates. Seoul Thunders can only dream about fighting for top spots in the league. They have extremely bad season and 14-35 record places them at the very bottom of the standings. Kanter has individually a great season in South Korea. After 49 games, he made it on the list of the league's leaders in points with 16.8ppg (9th best) and rebounds with 8.5rpg (8th best).

Other top performing players last week:
4. Derrick Williams (203-F-1991) of Suwon KT - 37 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists
5. Kevin Quiambao (193-SF-2001) of Sono SG - 31 points, 7 rebounds and 2 assists
6. Shawn Long (208-F-1993) of KCC Egis - 24 points and 11 rebounds
7. Joon-Young Choi (200-SG-1994) of KCC Egis - 22 points, 4 rebounds and 5 assists
8. Egidijus Mockevicius (208-C-1992) of Sono SG - 17 points, 10 rebounds and 2 assists
9. Rayshaun Hammonds (206-C-1998) of Mobis Phoebus - 25 points, 6 rebounds and 3 assists
10. Jae-Do Lee (180-PG-1991) of Sono SG - 13 points, 3 rebounds and 6 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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