Basketball Bundesliga Top Scorer

The Basketball Bundesliga Top Scorer award is given to the highest scorer of each season of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL). In basketball, points are the sum of the score accumulated through free throws or field goals. The Basketball Bundesliga's scoring title is awarded to the player with the highest points per game average in a given season.

Prior to the 1990–91 season, the league's Top Scorer was the player that scored the most total points in the league during the season. Since the 1990–91 season, the league's Top Scorer is the player with the highest scoring average per game during the season.

Leaders by total points scored

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Terry Schofield was the German League's Top Scorer, in 1974.

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Season Player Nationality Club Total Points Scored Ref.
By Total Points Scored (1966–67 to 1989–90)
1966–67 Dieter Sarodnick   West Germany Post-SV Hannover 447 [1]
1967–68 Dieter Sarodnick (2×)   West Germany Post-SV Hannover 465
1968–69 Volkmar Knopke   West Germany MTV Wolfenbüttel 423
1969–70 Volkmar Knopke (2×)   West Germany MTV Wolfenbüttel 479
1970–71 Bohumil Tomášek   Czechoslovakia SSV Hagen 507
1971–72 Jim Wade   United States Bamberg 485
1972–73 John Ecker   West Germany TuS 04 Leverkusen 504
1973–74 Terry Schofield   United States ASC 1846 Göttingen 335
1974–75 Dennis Curran   United States MTV 1846 Gießen 574
1975–76 "Pinky" Smith   United States SSV Hagen 485
1976–77 Ljubodrag Simonović   Yugoslavia Bamberg 544
1977–78 Rainer Frontzek   West Germany USC Heidelberg 818
1978–79 Hans DeWitt   United States MTV Wolfenbüttel 725
1979–80 John Britton   United States Eintracht Frankfurt 721
1980–81 Lou Hardy   United States BG DEK/Fichte Hagen 633
1981–82 Michael Pappert   West Germany BSC Saturn Köln 661
1982–83 Georg Kämpf   West Germany USC Bayreuth 614
1983–84 Eugene Richardson   United States SSV Hagen 685
1984–85 Mike Jackel   West Germany ASC 1846 Göttingen 625
1985–86 Brent Timm   United States SSV Hagen 803
1986–87 Mike Jackel (2×)   West Germany BSC Saturn Köln 524
1987–88 André Hills   United States BSG Basket Ludwigsburg 554
1988–89 Keith Gray   United States TSV Hagen 1860 541
1989–90 Rimas Kurtinaitis   Soviet Union SSV Hagen 638 [1]

Leaders by points per game

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Dirk Nowitzki was the German League's Top Scorer, in 1999.
 
Chris Copeland was the German League's Top Scorer, in 2010.

Note: Flags indicate national team eligibility at FIBA-sanctioned events. Players may hold other non-FIBA nationalities not displayed.

Season Player Nationality Club PPG Ref.
By Scoring Average (1990–91 to present)
1990–91 Greg Wendt   United States TuS Bramsche 36.3 [1]
1991–92 Greg Wendt (2×)   United States TuS Bramsche 30.6
1992–93 Greg Wendt (3×)   United States TuS Bramsche 25.6
1993–94 Sergei Babkov   Russia TBB Trier 24.1
1994–95 Bernard Thompson   United States TBB Trier 23.9
1995–96 Tony Dawson   United States TSV 04 Leverkusen 28.6
1996–97 Donald Williams   United States Hertener Löwen 25.3
1997–98 Keith Gatlin   United States Gießen 46ers 23.3
1998–99 Dirk Nowitzki   Germany DJK Würzburg 22.5 [1]
1999–00 Tyron McCoy   United States TV 1860 Lich 23.1
2000–01 John Best   United States Bayer Giants Leverkusen 22.9
2001–02 DeJuan Collins   United States SV 03 Tübingen 24.0
2002–03 BJ McKie   United States Gießen 46ers 25.0
2003–04 BJ McKie (2×)   United States TBB Trier 22.1
2004–05 Narcisse Ewodo   France BG Karlsruhe 21.0
2005–06 Andrew Wisniewski   United States Baskets Bonn 20.6
2006–07 Derrick Allen   United States Bayer Giants Leverkusen 16.5
2007–08 Timothy Black   United States Paderborn Baskets 21.3
2008–09 Omari Westley   United States Giants Nördlingen 15.9
2009–10 Chris Copeland   United States TBB Trier 16.9
2010–11 DaShaun Wood   United States Deutsche Bank Skyliners 18.9
2011–12 Bobby Brown   United States EWE Baskets Oldenburg 16.9
2012–13 Davin White   United States Phoenix Hagen 17.1
2013–14 Darius Adams   Bulgaria Eisbären Bremerhaven 18.0
2014–15 D. J. Kennedy   United States MHP Riesen Ludwigsburg 18.0
2015–16 Kyle Fogg   United States Eisbären Bremerhaven 18.2 [1]
2016–17 Raymar Morgan   United States ratiopharm Ulm 17.7 [2]
2017–18 Philip Scrubb   Canada Fraport Skyliners 18.3 [3]
2018–19 Will Cummings   United States EWE Baskets Oldenburg 20.5
2019–20 No award was given, due to the shortened season because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[4]
2020–21 Michał Michalak   Poland Mitteldeutscher BC 20.5 [5]
2021–22 T. J. Shorts   United States Crailsheim Merlins 20.6
2022–23 DeWayne Russell   United States Baskets Oldenburg 20.3 [6]
2023–24 Otis Livingston II   United States Würzburg Baskets 20.5

Awards won by nationality

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Country Total
  United States 37
  West Germany /   Germany 11
  Bulgaria 1
  Canada 1
  Czechoslovakia 1
  France 1
  Poland 1
  Russia 1
  Soviet Union 1
  Yugoslavia 1

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e Alle Topscorer der Bundesliga-Historie (in German).
  2. ^ Ulmer Morgan Topscorer der BBL-Hauptrunde (in German).
  3. ^ "Frankfurter Scrubb Topscorer der BBL-Hauptrunde" (in German). 1 May 2018. Retrieved 2 May 2018.
  4. ^ "Kapitäne wählen den Most Valuable Player des easyCredit BBL Final-Turniers 2020 / Keine anderen Awards" (in German). easycredit-bbl.de. 26 June 2020. Retrieved 26 June 2020.
  5. ^ "Awards 2021: Ludwigsburger Smith, Patrick und Polas-Bartolo räumen ab / Justus Hollatz und Trae Bell-Haynes geehrt". easycredit-bbl.de. 19 May 2021.
  6. ^ "Awards 2022/23: Shorts und Yebo liegen bei Effektivität vorne / Cooke bester Rebounder / Russell verteilt die meisten Assists". easycredit-bbl.de. 12 May 2023.
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