Lakers Top 50 Players for Career Rebounds Average in the NBA Playoffs
Minneapolis and Los Angeles Lakers players with the best average in career rebounds in the NBA Playoffs.
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| Career Average | In this page you can find the top 50 list with the best career rebound averages in the NBA Playoffs. The list includes both the Minneapolis Lakers and the Los Angeles Lakers players. Wilt Chamberlain, who has the second best career average in playoffs in NBA history with 24.5 rebounds per game, averaged 22.9 rebounds in his 5 playoffs as a Laker, the best career average for the franchise. Pau Gasol's average of 10.1 rebounds in his 5 playoffs with the Lakers is the 9th. best in franchise history. Andrew Bynum, Jordan Hill and Kobe Bryant are the other 2011-12 Lakers in this top 50 for playoff career average. |
 Wilt Chamberlain 22.3 reb. per game 1968-69 to 1972-73 |
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Notes:
- Stats updated on Apr 18, 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.
- In this case, Playoffs and Games only include seasons since 1951.
Lakers Top 50 Players for Career Rebounds Average in the NBA Playoffs |
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| Player | Rebounds | Playoffs | Games | |||||||
| 1. | Wilt Chamberlain | 22.29 | 5 | 80 | ||||||
| 2. | Walter Dukes | 14.80 | 1 | 5 | ||||||
| 3. | George Mikan | 13.85 | 5 | 48 | ||||||
| 4. | Shaquille O'Neal | 13.36 | 8 | 122 | ||||||
| 5. | Elgin Baylor | 12.87 | 12 | 134 | ||||||
| 6. | Anthony Davis | 11.00 | 3 | 42 | ||||||
| Andre Drummond | 11.00 | 1 | 5 | |||||||
| 8. | Elmore Smith | 10.60 | 1 | 5 | ||||||
| 9. | Larry Foust | 10.46 | 1 | 13 | ||||||
| 10. | Pau Gasol | 10.08 | 6 | 93 | ||||||
| 11. | Gene Wiley | 10.07 | 4 | 27 | ||||||
| 12. | LeBron James | 9.93 | 3 | 43 | ||||||
| 13. | Clyde Lovellette | 9.36 | 4 | 28 | ||||||
| 14. | Lamar Odom | 9.26 | 6 | 89 | ||||||
| 15. | Karl Malone | 8.81 | 1 | 21 | ||||||
| 16. | Happy Hairston | 8.59 | 5 | 51 | ||||||
| 17. | Bill Bridges | 8.55 | 2 | 22 | ||||||
| 18. | Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | 8.47 | 13 | 180 | ||||||
| 19. | Sam Perkins | 8.26 | 1 | 19 | ||||||
| 20. | Rudy LaRusso | 8.17 | 7 | 77 | ||||||
| 21. | Jim Pollard | 8.14 | 5 | 50 | ||||||
| 22. | Vern Mikkelsen | 8.01 | 8 | 73 | ||||||
| 23. | Connie Hawkins | 8.00 | 1 | 5 | ||||||
| 24. | Leroy Ellis | 7.89 | 5 | 56 | ||||||
| 25. | Ray Felix | 7.73 | 3 | 33 | ||||||
| Player | Rebounds | Playoffs | Games | |||||||
| 26. | Magic Johnson | 7.71 | 13 | 190 | ||||||
| 27. | Darrall Imhoff | 7.53 | 4 | 43 | ||||||
| 28. | Vlade Divac | 7.04 | 6 | 51 | ||||||
| 29. | A.C. Green | 6.81 | 9 | 126 | ||||||
| 30. | Andrew Bynum | 6.72 | 6 | 74 | ||||||
| 31. | Cedric Ceballos | 6.71 | 2 | 14 | ||||||
| 32. | Mel Counts | 6.59 | 6 | 71 | ||||||
| 33. | Boo Ellis | 6.56 | 2 | 16 | ||||||
| 34. | Maurice Lucas | 6.50 | 1 | 14 | ||||||
| 35. | Jim Chones | 6.37 | 2 | 19 | ||||||
| 36. | Kwame Brown | 6.17 | 2 | 12 | ||||||
| 37. | Robert Horry | 6.08 | 7 | 100 | ||||||
| 38. | Horace Grant | 6.00 | 1 | 16 | ||||||
| 39. | Jordan Hill | 5.80 | 2 | 15 | ||||||
| 40. | Dwight Howard | 5.73 | 2 | 22 | ||||||
| 41. | Jamaal Wilkes | 5.70 | 7 | 73 | ||||||
| 42. | Jim Krebs | 5.61 | 6 | 62 | ||||||
| 43. | Jerry West | 5.59 | 13 | 153 | ||||||
| 44. | Bob McAdoo | 5.49 | 4 | 61 | ||||||
| 45. | Jerome Kersey | 5.33 | 1 | 9 | ||||||
| 46. | Adrian Dantley | 5.27 | 2 | 11 | ||||||
| Jim McMillian | 5.27 | 3 | 44 | |||||||
| Kurt Rambis | 5.27 | 7 | 119 | |||||||
| 49. | J.R. Reid | 5.25 | 1 | 8 | ||||||
| 50. | James Worthy | 5.22 | 9 | 143 | ||||||
| 51. | Bill Hewitt | 5.20 | 1 | 15 | ||||||
| 52. | Mychal Thompson | 5.18 | 5 | 74 | ||||||
| 53. | Kobe Bryant | 5.09 | 15 | 220 | ||||||