NBA Players with the Highest Block Averages in Their 20th Season
Explore the NBA players who delivered the best stats ever in a 20th NBA season, ranked by regular season blocks per game. See how the all-time greats compare in this top-50 historical list.
Which NBA player averaged the most blocks in the Regular Season in his 20th year?
Playing for the 1989 Los Angeles Lakers, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar averaged 1.1 blocks in 74 games — the highest blocks per game average by any NBA player in his 20th season.
Blocks Per Game, 20th Season
1.1 bpg
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
(1989 Los Angeles Lakers)
Note: No game minimums were used for this list
Blocks Per Game in a Player's 20th Season - Full List
Regular Season
| Blocks | Other stats | ||||||||
| Rk | Player
(Team) |
Per Game | Total | Gms | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl | 3pm |
| 1 | (1989 Lakers) |
1.1 | 85 | 74 | 10.1 | 4.5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 0.0 |
| 2 | (1996 Hornets) |
0.7 | 54 | 74 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| 3 | (2018 Mavericks) |
0.6 | 45 | 77 | 12.0 | 5.7 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 1.8 |
| 4 | (2023 Lakers) |
0.6 | 32 | 55 | 28.9 | 8.3 | 6.8 | 0.9 | 2.2 |
| 5 | (2018 Kings) |
0.4 | 26 | 58 | 5.4 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 1.0 |
| 6 | (2015 more than 1 team) |
0.4 | 17 | 47 | 6.9 | 6.6 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.0 |
| 7 | (2023 Heat) |
0.3 | 2 | 7 | 3.9 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.4 |
| 8 | (2025 Spurs) |
0.3 | 22 | 82 | 8.8 | 3.6 | 7.4 | 1.3 | 1.7 |
| 9 | (2005 Hawks) |
0.2 | 7 | 29 | 3.0 | 2.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 |
| 10 | (2016 Lakers) |
0.2 | 13 | 66 | 17.6 | 3.7 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 2.0 |
| Blocks | Other stats | ||||||||
| Rk | Player
(Team) |
Per Game | Total | Gms | Pts | Reb | Ast | Stl | 3pm |
| 11 | (2020 Nets) |
0.0 | 0 | 1 | 5.0 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
(2026 76ers) |
0.0 | 0 | 4 | 1.5 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.5 | |