Luka Doncic led the NBA in scoring in 2025-26 at 33.5 points per game, over 64 games for the Los Angeles Lakers. The 2026-27 season opens on Tuesday, October 20, and no scoring-leader price for the new season is quoted here yet.
The 2025-26 scoring race
These are the NBA’s official per-game leaders for the 2025-26 regular season.
| Rank | Player | Team | Games | Points per game | Minutes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Luka Doncic | Lakers | 64 | 33.5 | 35.8 |
| 2 | Shai Gilgeous-Alexander | Thunder | 68 | 31.1 | 33.2 |
| 3 | Anthony Edwards | Timberwolves | 61 | 28.8 | 35.0 |
| 4 | Jaylen Brown | Celtics | 71 | 28.7 | 34.4 |
| 5 | Tyrese Maxey | 76ers | 70 | 28.3 | 38.0 |
Doncic finished 2.4 points a game clear of the field; when he led in 2023-24, his margin was 3.5. Gilgeous-Alexander, the 2024-25 leader, dropped 1.6 points from his title season and still finished second.
Brown and Maxey start 2026-27 as teammates. The NBA’s own schedule release lists Brown with LeBron James on a “new-look” Philadelphia side, which puts the fourth- and fifth-best scorers of last season on one roster.
Recent NBA scoring leaders
| Season | Leader | Team | Games | Points per game |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Luka Doncic | Lakers | 64 | 33.5 |
| 2024-25 | Shai Gilgeous-Alexander | Thunder | 76 | 32.7 |
| 2023-24 | Luka Doncic | Mavericks | 70 | 33.9 |
| 2022-23 | Joel Embiid | 76ers | 66 | 33.1 |
Every leader in the last four seasons averaged at least 32.7 points. Doncic has now led twice in three seasons, with two teams. His 64 games last season were the fewest of the four leaders, and that is the risk in this market: the official list ranks only players who played enough games. In 2023-24, ESPN’s per-game table had Joel Embiid on top at 34.7, while the NBA’s official leaders put Doncic first at 33.9.
How to read the scoring-leader board
A season-long price is a chance written as a payout. +300 implies 25%, +1000 implies 9.1%, and a favorite at -200 implies 66.7%. A futures bet is worth making only when you rate the player’s chance higher than the price does, and in this market that rating starts with two questions: how many minutes he will play and how many games he will miss.
Minutes set the ceiling. Maxey played 38.0 minutes a game last season, the most of the top five, and Gilgeous-Alexander 33.2, the fewest.
The season starts on October 20 with Boston at Detroit, Philadelphia at New York and Oklahoma City at San Antonio. We will add the board to this page once a price for the 2026-27 scoring title is posted, and the per-game race after the first month.
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