Lakers Top 50 Players for Single Season Blocks Average in the NBA Regular Season

Minneapolis and Los Angeles Lakers players with the best average in single season blocks in the NBA Regular Season.

Lakers Historical Records and Statistics:
Blocks in the NBA Regular Season

Single Season Average

In this page you can find the top 50 list with the best blocks seasons in Lakers history. The list includes both the Minneapolis Lakers and the Los Angeles Lakers players.

Elmore Smith's Laker career was brief, but 2 years were enough to establish himself in the franchise books with almost all the blocks records. Among them he recorded the best season average with 4.85 in 1973-74. This is also the 3rd. best average in NBA history.

Smith was sent to Milwaukee as a part of the trade for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who covers the next 4 spots of this list. Abdul-Jabbar has the NBA all-time third best blocks total and 12 of his 14 seasons with the Lakers appear in this top 50.

Other blockers with many appearances here are Shaquille O'Neal, Elden Campbell and Vlade Divac.

Andrew Bynum and Pau Gasol are the 2010-11 Lakers on this list.

Elmore Smith
Elmore Smith

4.85 blocks per game
in 1973-74

Notes:
- Stats updated on Mar 19, 2024.
- Total Rebounds were not recorded until 1950-51, steals, blocks, offensive and defensive rebounds until 1973-74, turnovers until 1977-78 and 3-pointers started in 1979-80.

Lakers Top 50 Players for Single Regular Season Blocks Average

Player Blocks Season Games Rebounds Assists Steals Points
1. Elmore Smith 4.85 1974 81 11.19 1.85 0.88 12.53
2. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 4.12 1976 82 16.87 5.04 1.45 27.74
3. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 3.95 1979 80 12.81 5.39 0.95 23.79
4. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 3.41 1980 82 10.80 4.52 0.99 24.80
5. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 3.18 1977 82 13.29 3.89 1.23 26.24
6. Shaquille O'Neal 3.03 2000 79 13.65 3.78 0.46 29.67
7. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 2.98 1978 62 12.92 4.34 1.66 25.81
8. Elmore Smith 2.92 1975 74 10.95 1.96 1.14 10.86
9. Shaquille O'Neal 2.88 1997 51 12.55 3.12 0.90 26.20
10. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 2.85 1981 80 10.26 3.40 0.74 26.19
11. Shaquille O'Neal 2.76 2001 74 12.70 3.74 0.64 28.72
12. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 2.72 1982 76 8.67 2.96 0.83 23.92
13. Elden Campbell 2.59 1996 82 7.60 2.21 1.07 13.94
14. Shaquille O'Neal 2.48 2004 67 11.48 2.93 0.51 21.48
15. Dwight Howard 2.45 2013 76 12.43 1.42 1.11 17.05
16. Shaquille O'Neal 2.40 1998 60 11.35 2.37 0.65 28.32
17. Anthony Davis 2.38 2024 65 12.34 3.65 1.18 24.42
18. Shaquille O'Neal 2.37 2003 67 11.07 3.07 0.57 27.48
19. Anthony Davis 2.31 2020 62 9.31 3.23 1.47 26.10
20. Anthony Davis 2.25 2022 40 9.85 3.05 1.23 23.18
21. Vlade Divac 2.18 1995 80 10.36 4.11 1.36 15.96
22. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 2.15 1983 79 7.49 2.53 0.77 21.80
23. Andrew Bynum 2.06 2008 35 10.17 1.74 0.34 13.14
24. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 2.05 1985 79 7.87 3.15 0.80 21.96
25. Shaquille O'Neal 2.04 2002 67 10.67 2.99 0.61 27.19
Player Blocks Season Games Rebounds Assists Steals Points
Anthony Davis 2.04 2023 56 12.54 2.64 1.05 25.91
27. JaVale McGee 1.97 2019 75 7.55 0.69 0.63 11.96
28. Andrew Bynum 1.96 2011 54 9.41 1.35 0.35 11.33
Elden Campbell 1.96 1992 81 5.22 0.73 0.65 7.14
30. Andrew Bynum 1.93 2012 60 11.82 1.42 0.45 18.72
31. Elden Campbell 1.92 1994 76 6.83 1.13 0.84 12.29
32. Elden Campbell 1.81 1995 73 6.10 1.26 0.95 12.51
33. Andrew Bynum 1.80 2009 50 7.96 1.42 0.36 14.28
34. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 1.79 1984 80 7.34 2.64 0.69 21.46
35. Pau Gasol 1.74 2010 65 11.29 3.35 0.57 18.31
36. Vlade Divac 1.71 1993 82 8.89 2.83 1.56 12.80
37. Shaquille O'Neal 1.67 1999 49 10.71 2.33 0.73 26.31
38. Vlade Divac 1.66 1996 79 8.59 3.30 0.96 12.91
39. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 1.65 1986 79 6.05 3.54 0.85 23.37
40. Anthony Davis 1.64 2021 36 7.94 3.06 1.25 21.83
41. Pau Gasol 1.59 2011 82 10.20 3.33 0.59 18.79
42. Andrew Bynum 1.56 2007 82 5.90 1.15 0.15 7.77
Pau Gasol 1.56 2008 27 7.81 3.52 0.52 18.81
44. Vlade Divac 1.55 1991 82 8.12 1.12 1.29 11.23
45. Pau Gasol 1.53 2014 60 9.67 3.35 0.45 17.35
46. Elden Campbell 1.52 1997 77 7.99 1.64 0.60 14.91
47. Andre Ingram 1.50 2018 2 3.00 3.50 1.50 12.00
48. Andrew Bynum 1.45 2010 65 8.32 1.05 0.54 15.03
49. Chris Mihm 1.44 2005 75 6.69 0.67 0.19 9.80
50. Vlade Divac 1.42 1994 79 10.77 3.89 1.16 14.22
51. Vlade Divac 1.39 1990 82 6.24 0.91 0.96 8.55
52. Ronny Turiaf 1.38 2008 78 3.92 1.64 0.36 6.62
JaVale McGee 1.38 2020 68 5.74 0.54 0.53 6.56