NBA All-Time Blocks Leaders: Career Per Game Average in the Playoffs
List with the stats for the top 50 players with the best career blocks per game average in the Playoffs in NBA history.
Notes: - These stats were updated on June 18, 2024
- Blocks were not recorded until 1973-74.
- In this case, 'Playoffs' and 'Games' only include playoffs since 1974.
- This list includes players with a minimum of 3 games.
* Players in bold played in the 2024 Playoffs
NBA All-Time Blocks Leaders:
Career Per Game Average in the Playoffs - Top 50
Player |
Blocks |
Total Blocks |
Playoffs | Games | |||||||
1. | Hakeem Olajuwon | 3.26 | 472 | 15 | 145 | ||||||
2. | Mark Eaton | 2.84 | 210 | 10 | 74 | ||||||
3. | Manute Bol | 2.66 | 77 | 5 | 29 | ||||||
4. | Elvin Hayes | 2.61 | 222 | 8 | 85 | ||||||
5. | Mike Green | 2.55 | 51 | 2 | 20 | ||||||
6. | David Robinson | 2.54 | 312 | 12 | 123 | ||||||
7. | Chet Holmgren | 2.50 | 25 | 1 | 10 | ||||||
8. | Dikembe Mutombo | 2.49 | 251 | 13 | 101 | ||||||
9. | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | 2.43 | 476 | 14 | 196 | ||||||
10. | Alonzo Mourning | 2.26 | 215 | 11 | 95 |
Player |
Blocks |
Total Blocks |
Playoffs | Games | |||||||
11. | Tim Duncan | 2.26 | 568 | 18 | 251 | ||||||
12. | Raef LaFrentz | 2.20 | 77 | 3 | 35 | ||||||
13. | Patrick Ewing | 2.18 | 303 | 14 | 139 | ||||||
14. | Anthony Davis | 2.15 | 129 | 6 | 60 | ||||||
15. | Shaquille O'Neal | 2.13 | 459 | 17 | 216 | ||||||
16. | Larry Nance | 2.12 | 144 | 8 | 68 | ||||||
17. | Roy Hinson | 2.11 | 19 | 2 | 9 | ||||||
18. | Jaren Jackson Jr. | 2.09 | 48 | 3 | 23 | ||||||
19. | George Johnson | 2.02 | 101 | 7 | 50 | ||||||
20. | Hassan Whiteside | 2.00 | 52 | 4 | 26 |
Player |
Blocks |
Total Blocks |
Playoffs | Games | |||||||
21. | Dwight Howard | 1.98 | 248 | 12 | 125 | ||||||
22. | Roy Hibbert | 1.96 | 106 | 4 | 54 | ||||||
23. | Marvin Webster | 1.96 | 94 | 5 | 48 | ||||||
24. | Elmore Smith | 1.92 | 25 | 4 | 13 | ||||||
Ben Wallace | 1.92 | 250 | 8 | 130 | |||||||
26. | Serge Ibaka | 1.92 | 292 | 12 | 152 | ||||||
27. | Marcus Camby | 1.91 | 151 | 11 | 79 | ||||||
28. | Benoit Benjamin | 1.89 | 34 | 3 | 18 | ||||||
Nate Thurmond | 1.89 | 51 | 3 | 27 | |||||||
30. | Evan Mobley | 1.88 | 32 | 2 | 17 |
Player |
Blocks |
Total Blocks |
Playoffs | Games | |||||||
31. | Caldwell Jones | 1.87 | 223 | 12 | 119 | ||||||
32. | Myles Turner | 1.86 | 80 | 6 | 43 | ||||||
33. | Greg Ostertag | 1.85 | 165 | 9 | 89 | ||||||
34. | DeAndre Jordan | 1.82 | 120 | 9 | 66 | ||||||
35. | Roy Tarpley | 1.79 | 43 | 3 | 24 | ||||||
36. | Jerome Moiso | 1.75 | 7 | 1 | 4 | ||||||
37. | Tom Burleson | 1.73 | 26 | 2 | 15 | ||||||
38. | Joel Embiid | 1.73 | 102 | 7 | 59 | ||||||
39. | Jermaine O'Neal | 1.72 | 167 | 14 | 97 | ||||||
40. | Gar Heard | 1.72 | 98 | 6 | 57 |
Player |
Blocks |
Total Blocks |
Playoffs | Games | |||||||
41. | Brook Lopez | 1.71 | 144 | 8 | 84 | ||||||
42. | Pau Gasol | 1.71 | 233 | 12 | 136 | ||||||
43. | Joakim Noah | 1.71 | 106 | 8 | 62 | ||||||
44. | Julius Erving | 1.70 | 239 | 11 | 141 | ||||||
45. | Bill Walton | 1.69 | 83 | 4 | 49 | ||||||
46. | Artis Gilmore | 1.69 | 71 | 6 | 42 | ||||||
47. | Joe Barry Carroll | 1.68 | 32 | 4 | 19 | ||||||
48. | Robert Parish | 1.68 | 309 | 16 | 184 | ||||||
49. | Kevin McHale | 1.66 | 281 | 13 | 169 | ||||||
50. | Alton Lister | 1.63 | 142 | 11 | 87 |