The top 10 Fantasy Basketball performances of the 2025-26 Season

As the fantasy basketball season winds down, let’s spotlight the top 10 single-game performances in Yahoo’s High Score format. Since only your best stat line each week counts, these games likely swung entire matchups. Here are the players who delivered the biggest stat lines through March 30 of the 2025-26 season.

My colleague Ben Zweiman has done an amazing job of keeping track of all the best performances each week, so I owe him a drink for making my life easier here.

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1. Bam Adebayo — 110 High Score points

Adebayo scored 83!! points against the Wizards on March 10 — the second-highest single-game total in NBA history, behind only Wilt Chamberlain’s 100. He went 36-of-43 from the free-throw line (an NBA record), threw in a career-best 7 3s and the Heat ran a 57.5% usage rate through him all night. The 83 points alone drag this line to all-time territory. The 9 rebounds, 3 assists, 2 steals and 2 blocks just pile on.

It will likely go down as one of the most random, unexpected outlier performances in NBA history.

2. Nikola Jokić — 108 High Score points

The Joker held the crown of the highest fantasy outing of the year until March 10 rolled around. His Christmas Day masterpiece against Minnesota was built on a gaudy 56-16-15 with 2 blocks. Of the players in the top 10 in fantasy scoring this season, this game featured the fewest stocks at 2. But that’s the thing about Jokić — the stocks aren’t as vital when you post modern-day Wilt Chamberlain numbers on a humble Christmas night. I’ve never rostered Jokić in all my years playing fantasy, but I would love to look at a box score, just one time and see numbers on the board like this.

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3. Cade Cunningham — 101 High Score points

The only player not named Adebayo or Jokić to crack 100 High Score points this season was Cunningham. Cunningham’s 46-12-11 triple-double back in November looked like a great fantasy night on its own, but it was his 7 stocks (5 steals and 2 blocks) that boosted his score another 21 points, helping him clear that 100-fantasy-point threshold. If he didn’t suffer a lung injury, he’d surely be in…

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Author : Dan Titus

Publish date : 2026-03-31 16:14:00

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