No 2026-27 NBA rebounds leader odds are posted yet. ESPN’s futures board for the new season has 15 NBA markets, and none of them is for the rebounding title.
What is on the record is last season. Nikola Jokic led the NBA at 12.9 rebounds per game in 2025-26, a full rebound clear of Karl-Anthony Towns, and ended the three-year run of Domantas Sabonis at the top.
The 2025-26 rebounding race
| Rank | Player | Team | Games | Rebounds per game | Offensive | Defensive |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nikola Jokic | Denver Nuggets | 65 | 12.9 | 3.0 | 9.9 |
| 2 | Karl-Anthony Towns | New York Knicks | 75 | 11.9 | 3.1 | 8.7 |
| 3 | Donovan Clingan | Portland Trail Blazers | 77 | 11.6 | 4.5 | 7.1 |
| 4 | Victor Wembanyama | San Antonio Spurs | 64 | 11.5 | 2.0 | 9.5 |
| 5 | Rudy Gobert | Minnesota Timberwolves | 76 | 11.5 | 3.9 | 7.5 |
| 6 | Jalen Duren | Detroit Pistons | 70 | 10.5 | 3.8 | 6.7 |
These are the NBA’s official 2025-26 leaders. Every player on that list played at least 58 games.
Jokic did it in 34.8 minutes a game, the most of the top five. Clingan got his 11.6 in 27.2 minutes, and 4.5 of them came on the offensive glass, more than anyone else in the top six.
What happened to Sabonis
Sabonis led the league in each of the three seasons before this one: 12.3 in 2022-23, 13.7 in 2023-24 and 13.9 in 2024-25. In 2025-26 he played 19 games for Sacramento.
He averaged 11.4 rebounds in those 19, which would have put him sixth on the table above. Nineteen games was not enough to reach the official list. Anyone pricing him for 2026-27 is pricing a player whose last season on that list was 2024-25, when he played 70.
Where the next leader comes from
Clingan went from 7.9 rebounds in 19.8 minutes in 2024-25 to 11.6 in 27.2 minutes. Most of that jump came from the extra minutes: per 36 minutes, he went from 14.4 rebounds to 15.4.
Towns went the other way. He averaged 12.8 in 2024-25, second in the league, then dropped to 11.9 as his minutes fell from 35.0 to 31.0. Jokic moved up slightly, from 12.7 to 12.9, while playing about two minutes a game less.
So minutes are the first number to watch when the 2026-27 season opens on October 20. A rebounding title needs both the rate and the games: Jokic won this one with 65.
How to read the prices when they appear
When a book posts this market, each price converts to the chance it implies. A player at +180 has to lead the league 35.7% of the time to pay back what he costs. At +350 that is 22.2%, and at +1000 it is 9.1%.
A rebounding futures bet is worth making only when you rate a player’s chance higher than his price does. As of September 24, ESPN’s 2026-27 futures board has no such market.
Recent NBA rebounds leaders
| Season | Player | Team | Rebounds per game |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Nikola Jokic | Denver Nuggets | 12.9 |
| 2024-25 | Domantas Sabonis | Sacramento Kings | 13.9 |
| 2023-24 | Domantas Sabonis | Sacramento Kings | 13.7 |
| 2022-23 | Domantas Sabonis | Sacramento Kings | 12.3 |
| 2021-22 | Rudy Gobert | Utah Jazz | 14.7 |
| 2020-21 | Clint Capela | Atlanta Hawks | 14.3 |
| 2019-20 | Andre Drummond | Cleveland Cavaliers | 15.2 |
| 2018-19 | Andre Drummond | Detroit Pistons | 15.6 |
| 2017-18 | Andre Drummond | Detroit Pistons | 16.0 |
| 2016-17 | Hassan Whiteside | Miami Heat | 14.1 |
Jokic’s 12.9 is the lowest winning figure of the ten seasons except for Sabonis’s 12.3 in 2022-23. Drummond and Sabonis led three times each in this span.
More NBA futures
The rebounding race sits next to the other individual markets: our NBA assist leader odds and Defensive Player of the Year odds cover the season-long player boards. The team boards are in our NBA championship odds, Eastern Conference odds and Western Conference odds.
From October 20, our NBA predictions carry the nightly lines, and the NBA Finals betting guide covers the end of the season. The Denver Nuggets and New York Knicks team pages hold their schedules.