Players of the Month: September 2026
September was the busiest month Swish & Dunk has ever had: the final rounds and playoffs of Season 1, the start of Season 2, and a transfer market that never slowed down. Every month we honor the players who actually played the best, not the ones with the shiniest cards: one player per position in each of the 10 divisions, chosen purely on what they did on the court that month. That makes fifty cards, from the stars of Division 1 to the scoring machines of Division 10.
September at a glance
- Player of the month: Pierrick Gaillard (C, Division 7), 22.0 points and 13.7 rebounds a game and a 21.7 Game Score, the best of anyone.
- Top scorers: Timoteo Mendez and Ognjen Dimitrijevic, 28.0 points a game in Division 10.
- Game of the month: Dorian Spruill (Division 7) dropped 54 on 19-of-22 shooting with 10 threes.
- Sharpest shooter: Quirin Fuchs (Division 5), 66.7% from the field and 60.3% from three.
- Eight countries: 10 Americans, 9 Serbs, 7 Spaniards, 7 French, 7 Lithuanians, 6 Germans, 3 Greeks and one Italian.
- A restless market: 28 of the 50 winners already play for a different team than in September.
How we picked them
We took every official league game played between September 1 and September 30, 2026: the last 17 rounds and the playoffs of Season 1 (through September 16) and the first 14 rounds of Season 2 (from September 17). Friendlies, the Cup and the World Cup are left out. For each player we calculated his average Game Score, John Hollinger's formula that rolls points, shots made and missed, rebounds, assists, steals, blocks, turnovers and fouls into a single number.
To qualify, a player needed at least 16 games and 20 minutes per game in the same division. Players who switched divisions during the month, through promotion or a transfer, are judged in the division where they played the most, counting only the games played there. Position means the primary position printed on the card. The cards below are today's versions, with Overall as of October 4; the team in each caption is the one the player suited up for in September. If you want to know what makes each position tick, we have guides for the point guard, shooting guard, small forward, power forward and center.
Division 1: Denver goes three for five
In the toughest league in the game, three of the five awards go to the Denver Zombies. Wolfgang Abt ran the offense at 22.2 points, 5.3 assists and 2.8 steals a game, and put up 34 points with 12 steals in a 144-40 rout of San Francisco. Giles Florent, 22, basically never sat down (48 minutes a night) and scored 40 against Toronto, while Simeun Nikolic shot a ridiculous 64.7% from the field and 62.0% from deep. At shooting guard the pick is Nevin Jackson of the Oklahoma City Executioners (22.0 points, 42.7% from three and a 10-steal game against Dallas), and in the middle it's Pearly Laboone of the Philadelphia Isis: 14.4 points and 7.2 rebounds, with 21 wins in 29 games. This five has already broken up: Jackson moved to El Paso, Florent to Columbus and Nikolic to Sacramento.
22.2 pts · 3.0 reb · 5.3 ast
22.0 pts · 5.3 reb · 4.4 ast
19.6 pts · 6.2 reb · 4.0 ast
19.2 pts · 6.1 reb · 2.4 ast
14.4 pts · 7.2 reb · 2.4 ast
Division 2: Milan's golden backcourt
The Milan Orcas won 28 of 33 games in September with their two guards on the floor. Norberto Gutierrez averaged 22.8 points, hit 95 threes at 50.8% and scored 38 against Tel Aviv; Thomas Lefevre shot 52.6% from three and had 36 against New Orleans. Both have since left, Gutierrez for Sacramento and Lefevre for Austin. Tomislav Radenkovic of the Seattle Vampires had a perfect night: 12-of-12 for 31 points against Houston. Nerijus Kavaliauskas carried Belgrade to the Season 1 title with 17.6 points and 7.0 rebounds, including a 34-point, 16-rebound game on 12-of-13 shooting. At center it's Kyle Trice, Radenkovic's teammate in Seattle, 22 years old and shooting 59.3% from the field.
22.8 pts · 3.8 reb · 4.6 ast
18.0 pts · 4.1 reb · 3.4 ast
15.6 pts · 3.9 reb · 3.2 ast
17.6 pts · 7.0 reb · 2.0 ast
15.1 pts · 7.1 reb · 2.0 ast
Division 3: Kansas City doubles up
The best Game Score in the division belongs to Salvador Uribe, point guard of the Kansas City Berserkers: 22.5 points, 4.7 assists, 2.4 steals and a 39-point, 7-steal game in a 135-47 win over Manila. He has already won Defensive Player of the Year twice, and in September he showed he can do everything else too. Next to him, center Vytautas Navickas put up 14.0 points and 7.4 rebounds in all 33 games. Trifun Osmajlic of the Buenos Aires Wolfhounds scored 37 on 14-of-17 against Las Vegas; Marcel Bernard of the San Diego Pharaohs went 13-of-13 for 38 against Baltimore and averaged 2.6 steals before moving to Milwaukee. At power forward, Sergio Seldon of the Lyon Reapers, now in Naples: 15.2 points, 6.0 rebounds and 24 wins.
22.5 pts · 3.2 reb · 4.7 ast
16.5 pts · 3.0 reb · 2.5 ast
14.7 pts · 4.1 reb · 3.8 ast
15.2 pts · 6.0 reb · 1.3 ast
14.0 pts · 7.4 reb · 2.0 ast
Division 4: Austin owns the paint
The Austin Leviathan land two big men. Lazar Arsenijevic, 22, logged 42.8 minutes a game with 16.7 points, 7.5 rebounds and a +815 plus-minus; Orestas Petrauskas averaged 14.1 points, 7.5 rebounds and a block a game, and had 31 points, 12 rebounds and 3 blocks against Turin. At the point, Andres Navarro of the Tampa Angels shot 63.3% from the field, had a 34-point, 10-steal game against Sydney and won 28 of 33. Orville Dinkins of the Naples Stallions shot 64.6% from the field and 56.9% from three on 66 makes. Christian Gilbert dropped 40 for the San Juan Captains against Jerusalem before his move to Osaka.
19.6 pts · 2.9 reb · 3.9 ast
17.9 pts · 4.9 reb · 2.5 ast
15.5 pts · 4.2 reb · 3.7 ast
16.7 pts · 7.5 reb · 3.1 ast
14.1 pts · 7.5 reb · 1.3 ast
Division 5: nobody missed
Nobody in this division could miss. Quirin Fuchs of the Brasilia Camels shot 66.7% from the field and 60.3% from three, with 42 points on 14-of-15 against Shanghai: no one among the 50 winners shot better, and he now plays in Edmonton. Ivan Golubovic of the Beirut Furies went 14-of-16 for 35 against Tallinn; his teammate Kestutis Valantinas was the top center with 10.9 rebounds a game and a 27-point, 15-rebound night. Tautvydas Cerniauskas of the Qingdao Minotaurs never came off the floor: 48 minutes, 19.4 points and 10.2 rebounds a game. Danilo Miskovic helped Hamburg win the Season 1 title, with 22 points and 5 steals in the semifinal.
19.5 pts · 2.5 reb · 4.5 ast
17.1 pts · 3.6 reb · 2.9 ast
17.7 pts · 6.2 reb · 3.4 ast
19.4 pts · 10.2 reb · 2.1 ast
14.3 pts · 10.9 reb · 1.9 ast
Division 6: Schmid keeps rolling
Gunther Schmid of the Taipei Mariners, the division MVP in Season 1, picked up right where he left off: 20.4 points, 4.5 assists and a 40-point game with 8 threes against Osaka. The shooting guard pick plays for those same Osaka Sentinels: Pavle Nesic, with 2.1 steals a game and 8 in a single night; he now plays in Denver. Frank Dietrich, 21, split the month between Auckland and Bucharest and scored 25 in a 93-91 win over Brussels. Christopher Paetow of the Sofia Knights averaged 17.8 points and 8.5 rebounds and had 37 against Busan; Athanasios Efthimiou of the Nanjing Victors pulled down 8.5 rebounds a game and once went 7-of-7 with 14 boards and 3 blocks.
20.4 pts · 2.7 reb · 4.5 ast
16.8 pts · 4.0 reb · 2.9 ast
14.5 pts · 4.9 reb · 2.4 ast
17.8 pts · 8.5 reb · 2.1 ast
14.6 pts · 8.5 reb · 1.7 ast
Division 7: Gaillard's month
September's best player lives here. Pierrick Gaillard of the Edmonton Enforcers averaged 22.0 points and 13.7 rebounds with a 21.7 Game Score, the highest of all 50 winners, and his team won 17 of the 18 games he played. He now plays in Suzhou. Two other performances to remember: Dorian Spruill's 54 points for the Curitiba Antelopes, on 19-of-22 with 10 threes against Bratislava, and Reinaldo Uribe's 51 for the Tunis Barracudas, on 15-of-18 against Porto. Uribe, the division MVP in Season 1, averaged 23.8 points. Erwin Becker of the Winnipeg Vigilantes, 21, dished 5.1 assists a game from the small forward spot. And Frieder Schulz of the Vladivostok Pearls is the lowest-rated winner at 80 Overall: 15.6 points and 7.0 rebounds, with a potential of 95 that should worry everyone else.
23.8 pts · 3.0 reb · 4.0 ast
21.8 pts · 3.8 reb · 4.1 ast
14.9 pts · 3.7 reb · 5.1 ast
15.6 pts · 7.0 reb · 2.4 ast
22.0 pts · 13.7 reb · 2.3 ast
Division 8: Lombardo, 21 years old, 47 points
Matteo Lombardo is 21 and played like a veteran for the Wuhan Explorers: 20.2 points, 4.5 assists, 2.7 steals and a 47-point, 12-rebound, 8-assist game against Rotterdam. His team didn't win much, he did: he now plays in Abuja. Yann Martinez of the Fukuoka Zeus, already a Defensive Player of the Year, did a bit of everything in 45.5 minutes a night: 18.8 points, 7.8 rebounds and 4.9 assists. The Maracaibo Hedgehogs place two: Eamon Eckenrod (17.2 points, 66 threes) and MVP Eimantas Dagilis, 11.7 rebounds a game before his move to Belgrade. Justinas Ramonas of the Gold Coast Storks missed one shot all night in a 36-point game, 15-of-16.
20.2 pts · 3.5 reb · 4.5 ast
17.2 pts · 3.7 reb · 4.2 ast
18.8 pts · 7.8 reb · 4.9 ast
16.2 pts · 6.7 reb · 1.4 ast
16.0 pts · 11.7 reb · 1.7 ast
Division 9: Lucas steals the show
Fernand Lucas of the Copenhagen Rams averaged 25.7 points and 3.7 steals a game, the most of any winner, and his 47 points decided a 107-105 game against Goa. Vukan Ercegovac of the Birmingham Raptors scored 42 with 9 assists in a one-point loss to Doha; Claude Renard of the Edinburgh Leopards put up 42 with 6 threes against Cartagena. Justo Molina of the Salvador Llamas is a complete big man: 18.0 points, 7.4 rebounds and a block a game. The strangest month belongs to Vasileios Iordanidis: three teams (Glasgow, Guayaquil and Cusco), 9.5 rebounds a game and 37 points with 12 rebounds on September 30, the last day of the month.
25.7 pts · 2.8 reb · 5.0 ast
21.8 pts · 4.3 reb · 4.3 ast
15.4 pts · 5.1 reb · 4.6 ast
18.0 pts · 7.4 reb · 3.0 ast
14.9 pts · 9.5 reb · 1.4 ast
Division 10: 28 a night, times two
Division 10 is where the points are, and two players finished at 28.0 points a game: Timoteo Mendez of the TGV Gladiators and Ognjen Dimitrijevic of the Monrovia Gecko, who scored 53 against Honiara in a two-point loss. Both were MVPs of their group in Season 1, and here's the twist: today they're teammates on the Tampa Angels, in Division 4. Peters Profit of the Addis Ababa Narwhals had a 30-point, 17-rebound, 6-assist game against Lusaka. Anastasios Floros of the Iquitos Skunks averaged 21.5 points as a power forward, and Ramiro Peinado of the SCGG Giants finished with 9.2 rebounds a game and 25 points in a 111-110 win over Rose YANG.
28.0 pts · 3.8 reb · 5.6 ast
28.0 pts · 5.9 reb · 5.8 ast
17.6 pts · 6.3 reb · 4.5 ast
21.5 pts · 7.3 reb · 2.5 ast
14.3 pts · 9.2 reb · 1.5 ast
Frequently asked questions
Who was the best player in Swish & Dunk in September 2026?
Pierrick Gaillard, the Edmonton Enforcers center in Division 7. He averaged a 21.7 Game Score, the highest of all 50 winners, with 22.0 points and 13.7 rebounds per game. Edmonton won 17 of the 18 games he played.
How were the Players of the Month picked?
By average Game Score in official league games played from September 1 to September 30, 2026 (regular season and playoffs), with a minimum of 16 games and 20 minutes per game. One winner per primary position (PG, SG, SF, PF, C) in each of the 10 divisions. Friendlies, the Cup and the World Cup do not count.
Who scored the most in September?
Timoteo Mendez and Ognjen Dimitrijevic, both in Division 10, at 28.0 points per game. The best single game of the month belonged to Dorian Spruill: 54 points on 19-of-22 shooting with 10 threes on September 12.
Why do some winners play for a different team now?
Because the transfer market never stopped: 28 of the 50 winners have changed teams since. The article lists the team each player suited up for in September, while the cards show their current Overall.
How a card climbs to Superstar or Icon is explained in our guide to cards, tiers and pack odds, and the full story of how the first season ended is in the Season 1 recap. See you in early November for the best of October.
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