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Lakers All-Time Steals Leaders: Single Regular Season Per Game Average
List with the stats for the top 50 players with the best single season steals per game average in Lakers history.
Notes: - These stats were updated on March 29, 2024
- Steals were not recorded until 1973-74.
- This list includes players with some minimum requirements
Lakers All-Time Steals Leaders:
Single Regular Season Per Game Average - Top 50
Player |
Steals |
Total Steals |
Season | Games | |||||||
1. | Magic Johnson | 3.43 | 127 | 1981 | 37 | ||||||
2. | Magic Johnson | 2.67 | 208 | 1982 | 78 | ||||||
3. | Norm Nixon | 2.45 | 201 | 1979 | 82 | ||||||
4. | Magic Johnson | 2.43 | 187 | 1980 | 77 | ||||||
5. | Eddie Jones | 2.36 | 189 | 1997 | 80 | ||||||
6. | Magic Johnson | 2.24 | 150 | 1984 | 67 | ||||||
7. | Magic Johnson | 2.23 | 176 | 1983 | 79 | ||||||
8. | Kobe Bryant | 2.21 | 181 | 2003 | 82 | ||||||
9. | Sedale Threatt | 2.05 | 168 | 1992 | 82 | ||||||
10. | Eddie Jones | 2.05 | 131 | 1995 | 64 |
Player |
Steals |
Total Steals |
Season | Games | |||||||
11. | Eddie Jones | 2.00 | 160 | 1998 | 80 | ||||||
12. | Jim Price | 1.91 | 157 | 1974 | 82 | ||||||
13. | Byron Scott | 1.91 | 155 | 1988 | 81 | ||||||
14. | Norm Nixon | 1.85 | 146 | 1981 | 79 | ||||||
15. | Eddie Jones | 1.84 | 129 | 1996 | 70 | ||||||
16. | Kobe Bryant | 1.84 | 151 | 2008 | 82 | ||||||
17. | Kobe Bryant | 1.84 | 147 | 2006 | 80 | ||||||
18. | Norm Nixon | 1.79 | 147 | 1980 | 82 | ||||||
19. | Magic Johnson | 1.79 | 138 | 1989 | 77 | ||||||
20. | Sedale Threatt | 1.73 | 142 | 1993 | 82 |
Player |
Steals |
Total Steals |
Season | Games | |||||||
21. | Don Chaney | 1.73 | 140 | 1977 | 81 | ||||||
22. | Magic Johnson | 1.73 | 138 | 1987 | 80 | ||||||
23. | Smush Parker | 1.71 | 140 | 2006 | 82 | ||||||
24. | Norm Nixon | 1.70 | 138 | 1978 | 81 | ||||||
25. | Jerome Kersey | 1.70 | 119 | 1997 | 70 | ||||||
26. | Magic Johnson | 1.67 | 132 | 1990 | 79 | ||||||
27. | Trevor Ariza | 1.67 | 137 | 2009 | 82 | ||||||
28. | Michael Cooper | 1.64 | 133 | 1981 | 81 | ||||||
29. | Gail Goodrich | 1.64 | 123 | 1976 | 75 | ||||||
30. | Jamaal Wilkes | 1.63 | 134 | 1979 | 82 |
Player |
Steals |
Total Steals |
Season | Games | |||||||
31. | Metta World Peace | 1.63 | 122 | 2013 | 75 | ||||||
32. | Norm Nixon | 1.61 | 132 | 1982 | 82 | ||||||
33. | Magic Johnson | 1.58 | 114 | 1988 | 72 | ||||||
34. | Michael Cooper | 1.58 | 120 | 1982 | 76 | ||||||
35. | Jamaal Wilkes | 1.57 | 129 | 1980 | 82 | ||||||
36. | Magic Johnson | 1.57 | 113 | 1986 | 72 | ||||||
37. | Vlade Divac | 1.56 | 128 | 1993 | 82 | ||||||
38. | Robert Horry | 1.56 | 112 | 1998 | 72 | ||||||
39. | Kobe Bryant | 1.55 | 113 | 2010 | 73 | ||||||
40. | Byron Scott | 1.54 | 114 | 1989 | 74 |
Player |
Steals |
Total Steals |
Season | Games | |||||||
41. | Gail Goodrich | 1.54 | 126 | 1974 | 82 | ||||||
42. | Byron Scott | 1.52 | 125 | 1987 | 82 | ||||||
43. | Metta World Peace | 1.51 | 124 | 2011 | 82 | ||||||
44. | Jamaal Wilkes | 1.49 | 121 | 1981 | 81 | ||||||
45. | Lucius Allen | 1.49 | 116 | 1977 | 78 | ||||||
46. | Connie Hawkins | 1.48 | 105 | 1974 | 71 | ||||||
47. | Kobe Bryant | 1.48 | 118 | 2002 | 80 | ||||||
48. | Anthony Davis | 1.47 | 91 | 2020 | 62 | ||||||
49. | Magic Johnson | 1.47 | 113 | 1985 | 77 | ||||||
50. | Kobe Bryant | 1.46 | 120 | 2009 | 82 |
= Season in progress
Minimum requirements:
1946-47: 40 games
1947-48: 32 games
1948-49: 40 games
1949-50 to 1950-51: 46 games
1951-52: 44 games
1952-53 to 1956-57: 48 games
1957-58 to 1958-59: 55 games
1959-60: 60 games
1960-61: 55 games
1961-62 to 1968-69: 65 games
1969-70 to 1973-74: 70 games
1974-75 to 2012-13: 70 games or 125 steals
with the exceptions of
1998-99: 43 games or 76 steals
and 2011-12: 56 games or 100 steals
2013-14 to present: 58 games
with the exceptions of
2019-20: 70% of games played
and season in progress: 70% of games played