NBA & ABA Year-by-Year Playoff Leaders and Records for Blocks Per 36 Minutes

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Year Lg Player BLK/36 MP Tm
2025 NBA Chet Holmgren 3.43 OKC
2024 NBA Isaiah Jackson 3.04 IND
2023 NBA Anthony Davis 2.96 LAL
2022 NBA Robert Williams 3.47 BOS
2021 NBA Onyeka Okongwu 2.82 ATL
2020 NBA Serge Ibaka 2.01 TOR
2019 NBA Rudy Gobert 3.08 UTA
2018 NBA JaVale McGee 2.51 GSW
2017 NBA Clint Capela 3.52 HOU
2016 NBA Myles Turner 4.20 IND
2015 NBA Andrew Bogut 2.78 GSW
2014 NBA Taj Gibson 2.81 CHI
2013 NBA Serge Ibaka 3.25 OKC
2012 NBA JaVale McGee 4.38 DEN
2011 NBA Serge Ibaka 3.82 OKC
2010 NBA Dwight Howard 3.55 ORL
2009 NBA Tyrus Thomas 3.69 CHI
2008 NBA Ronny Turiaf 3.47 LAL
2007 NBA Marcus Camby 3.13 DEN
2006 NBA Alonzo Mourning* 3.82 MIA
2005 NBA Alonzo Mourning* 4.68 MIA
2004 NBA Jonathan Bender 2.52 IND
2003 NBA Raef LaFrentz 3.15 DAL
2002 NBA Tim Duncan* 3.69 SAS
2001 NBA Shawn Bradley 4.22 DAL
2000 NBA Greg Ostertag 3.56 UTA
1999 NBA Greg Ostertag 3.31 UTA
1998 NBA Greg Ostertag 3.96 UTA
1997 NBA Greg Ostertag 3.69 UTA
1996 NBA Greg Ostertag 3.57 UTA
1995 NBA Elden Campbell 2.87 LAL
1994 NBA Dikembe Mutombo* 4.86 DEN
1993 NBA Oliver Miller 4.14 PHO
1992 NBA Benoit Benjamin 2.91 SEA
1991 NBA David Robinson* 3.25 SAS
1990 NBA Hakeem Olajuwon* 5.14 HOU
1989 NBA Alton Lister 4.72 SEA
1988 NBA Patrick Ewing* 3.06 NYK
1987 NBA Hakeem Olajuwon* 3.98 HOU
1986 NBA Manute Bol 6.87 WSB
1985 NBA Mark Eaton 6.61 UTA
1984 NBA Mark Eaton 4.82 UTA
1983 NBA Kareem Abdul-Jabbar* 3.37 LAL
1982 NBA Robert Parish* 4.06 BOS
1981 NBA George Johnson 3.49 SAS
1980 NBA Kareem Abdul-Jabbar* 3.38 LAL
1979 NBA Tree Rollins 4.08 ATL
1978 NBA Caldwell Jones 3.59 PHI
1977 NBA Bill Walton* 3.05 POR
1976 NBA Elvin Hayes* 3.30 WSB
  ABA Artis Gilmore* 3.32 KEN
1975 NBA George Johnson 4.49 GSW
  ABA Billy Paultz 3.24 NYA
1974 NBA Clifford Ray 2.09 CHI
  ABA Artis Gilmore* 3.14 KEN
1973 ABA Julius Keye 3.01 DNR
1972 ABA Julius Keye 2.26 DNR