NBA Players with the Highest Scoring Averages in Their 20th Season
Explore the NBA players who delivered the best stats ever in a 20th NBA season, ranked by regular season 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 Regular Season in his 20th year?
Playing for the 2023 Los Angeles Lakers, LeBron James averaged 28.9 points in 55 games — the highest scoring average by any NBA player in his 20th season.
Points Per Game, 20th Season
28.9 ppg
LeBron James
(2023 Los Angeles Lakers)
Note: No game minimums were used for this list
Points Per Game in a Player's 20th Season - Full List
Regular Season
| Points | Other stats | ||||||||
| Rk | Player
(Team) |
Per Game | Total | Gms | Reb | Ast | Stl | Blk | 3pm |
| 1 | (2023 Lakers) |
28.9 | 1,590 | 55 | 8.3 | 6.8 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 2.2 |
| 2 | (2016 Lakers) |
17.6 | 1,161 | 66 | 3.7 | 2.8 | 0.9 | 0.2 | 2.0 |
| 3 | (2018 Mavericks) |
12.0 | 927 | 77 | 5.7 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 1.8 |
| 4 | (1989 Lakers) |
10.1 | 748 | 74 | 4.5 | 1.0 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.0 |
| 5 | (2025 Spurs) |
8.8 | 723 | 82 | 3.6 | 7.4 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 1.7 |
| 6 | (2015 more than 1 team) |
6.9 | 323 | 47 | 6.6 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.4 | 0.0 |
| 7 | (2018 Kings) |
5.4 | 313 | 58 | 2.6 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 1.0 |
| 8 | (2020 Nets) |
5.0 | 5 | 1 | 0.0 | 3.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 1.0 |
| 9 | (1996 Hornets) |
3.9 | 290 | 74 | 4.1 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 0.0 |
| 10 | (2023 Heat) |
3.9 | 27 | 7 | 1.6 | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.4 |
| Points | Other stats | ||||||||
| Rk | Player
(Team) |
Per Game | Total | Gms | Reb | Ast | Stl | Blk | 3pm |
| 11 | (2005 Hawks) |
3.0 | 87 | 29 | 2.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 0.0 |
| 12 | (2026 76ers) |
1.5 | 6 | 4 | 0.5 | 1.3 | 0.3 | 0.0 | 0.5 |