PLG's 2025-26 Defensive Player of the Year was awarded by the leader Ape Brown

Defensive Player of the Year Brown. (Provided by PLG)

[Reporter Lin Yuefu/Report from Taipei] P. LEAGUE+ announced today the Defensive Player of the Year and the Defensive First Team of the Year for the 2025-26 season. The Defensive Player of the Year was won by Brown, the leader in blocking this season and the Taoyuan Puyuan Pilot. Four players of the Defensive First Team of the Year were selected and became the biggest winner.

Brown, who won the annual blocking title this season, not only averaged 1.9 blocks per game, but also averaged 8 rebounds and 1.3 steals. He even completed 6 steals in a single game, so he won the defensive player of the year award for the first time in his career.

As the defending team's leading team, the defensive line and Brown include four people selected to the annual defensive first team, as well as local top players Lu Junxiang, Li Jiakang and Guan Dayu. Therefore, the leading team lost an average of 94.5 points in the regular season this season, which is the best in the league.

The only non-Navigator member is Mobaye, a foreign student of the Fubon Warriors. His blocks improved from 0.6 blocks last season to 1.3 this season, with 7.2 rebounds and 0.8 steals. He was selected to the annual defensive first team for the first time in his career.

The Defensive First Team of the Year is out. (Provided by PLG)