NBA Single-Season Blocks per Game Record Progression

Every season that raised the bar, and the leader in every season between.

The NBA single-season blocks per game record is 5.6, set by Mark Eaton in 1984. It has stood for 41 years. The mark has been raised 1 times since 1973.

SPG STL BPG BLK PF

Record Holders

2 marks since 1973

Year	Player	BPG	Stood for
1984	Mark Eaton	5.6	still standing
1973	Elmore Smith	4.9	11 years

The earliest marks here are records only in the sense that nobody had done better yet. Season length, schedule and the rules themselves have all changed, so a figure from the 1870s is not comparable with a modern one and is not offered as though it were.

Every Season

53 seasons

Year	Leader	BPG
2025	Victor Wembanyama	3.1
2024	Walker Kessler	2.4
2023	Victor Wembanyama	3.6
2022	Jaren Jackson Jr.	3.0
2021	Jaren Jackson Jr.	2.3
2020	Rudy Gobert	2.7
2019	Hassan Whiteside	2.9
2018	Myles Turner	2.7
2017	Anthony Davis	2.6
2016	Rudy Gobert	2.6
2015	Hassan Whiteside	3.7
2014	Anthony Davis	2.9
2013	Anthony Davis	2.8
2012	Serge Ibaka	3.0
2011	Serge Ibaka	3.7
2010	Andrew Bogut	2.6
2009	Dwight Howard	2.8
2008	Dwight Howard	2.9
2007	Marcus Camby	3.6
2006	Marcus Camby	3.3
2005	Andrei Kirilenko	3.2
2004	Marcus Camby	3.0
2003	Theo Ratliff	3.6
2002	Theo Ratliff	3.2
2001	Ben Wallace	3.5
2000	Jermaine O'Neal	2.8
1999	Alonzo Mourning	3.7
1998	Alonzo Mourning	3.9
1997	Marcus Camby	3.7
1996	Shawn Bradley	3.4
1995	Dikembe Mutombo	4.5
1994	Dikembe Mutombo	3.9
1993	Dikembe Mutombo	4.1
1992	Hakeem Olajuwon	4.2
1991	David Robinson	4.5
1990	David Robinson	3.9
1989	Hakeem Olajuwon	4.6
1988	Manute Bol	4.3
1987	Mark Eaton	3.7
1986	Mark Eaton	4.1
1985	Manute Bol	5.0
1984	Mark Eaton	5.6	new record
1983	Mark Eaton	4.3
1982	Tree Rollins	4.3
1981	George Johnson	3.1
1980	George Johnson	3.4
1979	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	3.4
1978	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	4.0
1977	George Johnson	3.4
1976	Bill Walton	3.3
1975	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	4.1
1974	Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	3.3
1973	Elmore Smith	4.9	new record