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As we approach 2026, the new year offers a fresh start, and that may be exactly what fantasy basketball managers are looking for depending on how their team looked in 2025. It’s been about two months of High Score on Yahoo Fantasy, and this past week we saw our highest score of the season. And the player who posted the score may surprise none of you.
Nikola Jokić is the best basketball player in the world and it’s only fitting that he’s the one to enter 2026 with the highest output of any player in High Score. The Nuggets big man had 108(!) fantasy points in a Christmas Day classic, a 142-138 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves in overtime. Jokić finished with an insane 56-point triple-double, racking up 16 rebounds, 15 assists and 2 blocks. The previous top score belonged to Cade Cunningham, who had 101 fantasy points back in November.
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We’ll be hard-pressed to find anyone who can top Jokić’s career Christmas performance, but the season is still young. Let’s look at the rest of the High Score perfect lineup from the final week of 2025.
The top-six performances overall by position from Week 10.
(Taylor Wilhelm)
More from the top performers
Cade Cunningham, guard: The Pistons star was dethroned from his place as the top High Score total of the season but continues to be a staple in this lineup. He entered Sunday trailing only Jokić and Luka Doncic in terms of fantasy points per game in High Score (59.2). Detroit has a deep lineup, so there will be floor games for Cunningham. But when the Pistons face a weak defense or are in a close game, that’s when Cunningham really shines.
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, guard: We haven’t seen SGA often in this article. Gilgeous-Alexander has one of the better floors in fantasy basketball, but for High Score, his ceiling is limited by his lack of peripheral stats. The steals are consistent but Shai isn’t an active rebounder and is usually in attack mode, rather than distributor mode. Last Tuesday, SGA came close to his first triple-double of the season against the Grizz with 31 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists with 5 stocks.
Nikola Jokić, frontcourt: We’ll…
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Author : Ben Zweiman
Publish date : 2025-12-29 17:17:00
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