NBA All-Time Blocks Leaders: Single Regular Season Per Game Average
List with the stats for the top 50 players with the best single season blocks per game average in NBA history.
Notes: - These stats were updated on December 8, 2024
- Blocks were not recorded until 1973-74.
- This list includes players with some minimum requirements
NBA All-Time Blocks Leaders:
Single Regular Season Per Game Average - Top 50
Player |
Blocks |
Total Blocks |
Season | Games | |||||||
1. | Mark Eaton | 5.56 | 456 | 1985 | 82 | ||||||
2. | Manute Bol | 4.96 | 397 | 1986 | 80 | ||||||
3. | Elmore Smith | 4.85 | 393 | 1974 | 81 | ||||||
4. | Mark Eaton | 4.61 | 369 | 1986 | 80 | ||||||
5. | Hakeem Olajuwon | 4.59 | 376 | 1990 | 82 | ||||||
6. | Dikembe Mutombo | 4.49 | 332 | 1996 | 74 | ||||||
7. | David Robinson | 4.49 | 305 | 1992 | 68 | ||||||
8. | Hakeem Olajuwon | 4.34 | 304 | 1992 | 70 | ||||||
9. | Manute Bol | 4.31 | 345 | 1989 | 80 | ||||||
10. | Tree Rollins | 4.29 | 343 | 1983 | 80 |
Player |
Blocks |
Total Blocks |
Season | Games | |||||||
11. | Mark Eaton | 4.28 | 351 | 1984 | 82 | ||||||
12. | Hakeem Olajuwon | 4.17 | 342 | 1993 | 82 | ||||||
13. | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | 4.12 | 338 | 1976 | 82 | ||||||
14. | Dikembe Mutombo | 4.10 | 336 | 1994 | 82 | ||||||
15. | Mark Eaton | 4.06 | 321 | 1987 | 79 | ||||||
16. | Patrick Ewing | 3.99 | 327 | 1990 | 82 | ||||||
17. | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | 3.95 | 316 | 1979 | 80 | ||||||
18. | Hakeem Olajuwon | 3.95 | 221 | 1991 | 56 | ||||||
19. | Dikembe Mutombo | 3.91 | 321 | 1995 | 82 | ||||||
20. | Alonzo Mourning | 3.91 | 180 | 1999 | 46 |
Player |
Blocks |
Total Blocks |
Season | Games | |||||||
21. | David Robinson | 3.90 | 320 | 1991 | 82 | ||||||
22. | David Robinson | 3.89 | 319 | 1990 | 82 | ||||||
23. | Mark Eaton | 3.84 | 315 | 1989 | 82 | ||||||
24. | Theo Ratliff | 3.74 | 187 | 2001 | 50 | ||||||
25. | Alonzo Mourning | 3.72 | 294 | 2000 | 79 | ||||||
26. | Hakeem Olajuwon | 3.71 | 297 | 1994 | 80 | ||||||
27. | Mark Eaton | 3.71 | 304 | 1988 | 82 | ||||||
28. | Hassan Whiteside | 3.68 | 269 | 2016 | 73 | ||||||
29. | Manute Bol | 3.68 | 302 | 1987 | 82 | ||||||
30. | Serge Ibaka | 3.65 | 241 | 2012 | 66 |
Player |
Blocks |
Total Blocks |
Season | Games | |||||||
31. | Marcus Camby | 3.65 | 230 | 1998 | 63 | ||||||
32. | Shawn Bradley | 3.65 | 288 | 1996 | 79 | ||||||
33. | Theo Ratliff | 3.61 | 307 | 2004 | 85 | ||||||
34. | Marcus Camby | 3.61 | 285 | 2008 | 79 | ||||||
35. | Bill Walton | 3.61 | 119 | 1983 | 33 | ||||||
36. | Tree Rollins | 3.60 | 277 | 1984 | 77 | ||||||
37. | Victor Wembanyama | 3.58 | 254 | 2024 | 71 | ||||||
38. | Shaquille O'Neal | 3.53 | 286 | 1993 | 81 | ||||||
39. | Patrick Ewing | 3.51 | 281 | 1989 | 80 | ||||||
40. | Dikembe Mutombo | 3.50 | 287 | 1993 | 82 |
Player |
Blocks |
Total Blocks |
Season | Games | |||||||
41. | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | 3.49 | 283 | 1974 | 81 | ||||||
42. | Ben Wallace | 3.48 | 278 | 2002 | 80 | ||||||
43. | Alonzo Mourning | 3.47 | 271 | 1993 | 78 | ||||||
44. | Hakeem Olajuwon | 3.44 | 282 | 1989 | 82 | ||||||
45. | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | 3.41 | 280 | 1980 | 82 | ||||||
46. | Benoit Benjamin | 3.41 | 225 | 1988 | 66 | ||||||
47. | Shawn Bradley | 3.40 | 248 | 1997 | 73 | ||||||
48. | Hakeem Olajuwon | 3.40 | 231 | 1986 | 68 | ||||||
49. | Mark Eaton | 3.40 | 275 | 1983 | 81 | ||||||
50. | George Johnson | 3.39 | 278 | 1981 | 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 100 blocks
with the exceptions of
1998-99: 43 games or 61 blocks
and 2011-12: 56 games or 80 blocks
2013-14 to present: 58 games
with the exceptions of
2019-20: 70% of games played
and season in progress: 70% of games played