NBA Players with the Highest Scoring Averages in Playoffs in Their 19th Season
Explore the NBA players who delivered the best stats ever in a 19th NBA season, ranked by playoff points per game. See how the all-time greats compare in this top-50 historical list.
Which NBA player averaged the most points in the Playoffs in his 19th year?
Playing for the 1988 Los Angeles Lakers, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar averaged 14.1 points in 24 games — the highest playoff scoring average by any NBA player in his 19th season.
Points Per Game, 19th Season
14.1 ppg
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(1988 Los Angeles Lakers)
Note: No game minimums were used for this list /
= NBA champion in this season.
Points Per Game in a Player's 19th Season - Full List
Playoffs
| Points | Other stats | ||||||||
| Rk | Player
(Team) |
Per Game | Total | Gms | Reb | Ast | Stl | Blk | 3pm |
| 1 | (1988 Lakers) ![]() |
14.1 | 338 | 24 | 5.5 | 1.5 | 0.6 | 1.5 | 0.0 |
| 2 | (2004 Lakers) |
11.5 | 242 | 21 | 8.8 | 3.4 | 1.1 | 0.1 | 0.0 |
| 3 | (2003 Jazz) |
11.2 | 56 | 5 | 3.2 | 5.2 | 1.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| 4 | (2017 Grizzlies) |
9.2 | 55 | 6 | 3.3 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 1.3 |
| 5 | (2014 Nets) |
6.9 | 83 | 12 | 6.3 | 1.3 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
| 6 | (2016 Spurs) |
5.9 | 59 | 10 | 4.8 | 1.4 | 0.2 | 1.3 | 0.0 |
| 7 | (1995 Hornets) |
3.5 | 14 | 4 | 2.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.8 | 0.0 |
| 8 | (2017 Clippers) |
3.0 | 21 | 7 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.6 |
| 9 | (2018 Bucks) |
2.0 | 6 | 3 | 0.7 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.7 |
| 10 | (1996 Bulls) ![]() |
1.8 | 11 | 6 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Points | Other stats | ||||||||
| Rk | Player
(Team) |
Per Game | Total | Gms | Reb | Ast | Stl | Blk | 3pm |
| 11 | (2011 Celtics) |
1.0 | 2 | 2 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 12 | (2013 Knicks) |
0.9 | 11 | 12 | 3.5 | 2.0 | 1.0 | 0.3 | 0.3 |
| 13 | (2004 Spurs) |
0.9 | 6 | 7 | 0.9 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| 14 | (2020 Rockets) |
0.0 | 0 | 1 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |