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Lakers All-Time Steals Leaders: Single Regular Season Per Game Average

List with the stats for the top 50 players with the best single season steals per game average in Lakers history.

Notes: - These stats were updated on March 28, 2024
- Steals were not recorded until 1973-74.
- This list includes players with some minimum requirements

Lakers All-Time Steals Leaders:
Single Regular Season Per Game Average - Top 50

Player
Steals
Total
Steals
Season Games
1. Magic Johnson 3.43 127 1981 37
2. Magic Johnson 2.67 208 1982 78
3. Norm Nixon 2.45 201 1979 82
4. Magic Johnson 2.43 187 1980 77
5. Eddie Jones 2.36 189 1997 80
6. Magic Johnson 2.24 150 1984 67
7. Magic Johnson 2.23 176 1983 79
8. Kobe Bryant 2.21 181 2003 82
9. Sedale Threatt 2.05 168 1992 82
10. Eddie Jones 2.05 131 1995 64
Player
Steals
Total
Steals
Season Games
11. Eddie Jones 2.00 160 1998 80
12. Jim Price 1.91 157 1974 82
13. Byron Scott 1.91 155 1988 81
14. Norm Nixon 1.85 146 1981 79
15. Eddie Jones 1.84 129 1996 70
16. Kobe Bryant 1.84 151 2008 82
17. Kobe Bryant 1.84 147 2006 80
18. Norm Nixon 1.79 147 1980 82
19. Magic Johnson 1.79 138 1989 77
20. Sedale Threatt 1.73 142 1993 82
Player
Steals
Total
Steals
Season Games
21. Don Chaney 1.73 140 1977 81
22. Magic Johnson 1.73 138 1987 80
23. Smush Parker 1.71 140 2006 82
24. Norm Nixon 1.70 138 1978 81
25. Jerome Kersey 1.70 119 1997 70
26. Magic Johnson 1.67 132 1990 79
27. Trevor Ariza 1.67 137 2009 82
28. Michael Cooper 1.64 133 1981 81
29. Gail Goodrich 1.64 123 1976 75
30. Jamaal Wilkes 1.63 134 1979 82
Player
Steals
Total
Steals
Season Games
31. Metta World Peace 1.63 122 2013 75
32. Norm Nixon 1.61 132 1982 82
33. Magic Johnson 1.58 114 1988 72
34. Michael Cooper 1.58 120 1982 76
35. Jamaal Wilkes 1.57 129 1980 82
36. Magic Johnson 1.57 113 1986 72
37. Vlade Divac 1.56 128 1993 82
38. Robert Horry 1.56 112 1998 72
39. Kobe Bryant 1.55 113 2010 73
40. Byron Scott 1.54 114 1989 74
Player
Steals
Total
Steals
Season Games
41. Gail Goodrich 1.54 126 1974 82
42. Byron Scott 1.52 125 1987 82
43. Metta World Peace 1.51 124 2011 82
44. Jamaal Wilkes 1.49 121 1981 81
45. Lucius Allen 1.49 116 1977 78
46. Connie Hawkins 1.48 105 1974 71
47. Kobe Bryant 1.48 118 2002 80
48. Anthony Davis 1.47 91 2020 62
49. Magic Johnson 1.47 113 1985 77
50. Kobe Bryant 1.46 120 2009 82
= Season in progress

Minimum requirements:
1946-47: 40 games
1947-48: 32 games
1948-49: 40 games
1949-50 to 1950-51: 46 games
1951-52: 44 games
1952-53 to 1956-57: 48 games
1957-58 to 1958-59: 55 games
1959-60: 60 games
1960-61: 55 games
1961-62 to 1968-69: 65 games
1969-70 to 1973-74: 70 games
1974-75 to 2012-13: 70 games or 125 steals
    with the exceptions of
    1998-99: 43 games or 76 steals
    and 2011-12: 56 games or 100 steals
2013-14 to present: 58 games
    with the exceptions of
    2019-20: 70% of games played
    and season in progress: 70% of games played
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