With 2026 quickly approaching, the new year offers a fresh start, which could be just what Fantasy Basketball Managers are looking for depending on how their teams perform in 2025. It’s been about two months since Yahoo Fantasy’s high scores, and last week we saw the highest scores of the season. Players posting scores probably won’t surprise you.
Nikola Jokić is the best basketball player in the world, and it stands to reason that he is the highest-output player on the high-scoring list heading into 2026. The Nuggets big man scored 108 (!) fantasy points in the Christmas Classic, a 142-138 overtime victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves. Jokic scored a crazy triple-double of 56 points, 16 rebounds, 15 assists and 2 blocks. The previous high belonged to Cade Cunningham, who scored 101 fantasy points in November.
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It’s hard to find anyone who can top Jokic’s career Christmas performance, but the season is still young. Let’s take a look at the rest of the high-scoring perfect lineup for the final week of 2025.
Top six overall performances by position since Week 10.
(Tyler William)
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Cade Cunningham, guard: The Pistons star was knocked off his top scoring spot this season but remains a staple on this roster. Entering Sunday’s game, he trailed only Jokic and Luka Doncic in fantasy points per game among highs (59.2). Detroit has a deep roster, so Cunningham will have time to play. But when the Pistons face weak defenses or close games, Cunningham really shines.
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Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, guard: We don’t see SGA very often in this article. Gilgeous-Alexander has one of the best floors in fantasy basketball, but for high points, his ceiling is limited by a lack of peripheral statistics. The steals are consistent, but Shea isn’t an active rebounder and is generally in attack mode rather than distribution mode. Last Tuesday, SGA was close to his first triple-double of the season when he scored 5 31 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists against the Grizzlies.
Nikola Jokic, frontcourt: We’ll be brief because we’ve already discussed this (and we’ve seen that Jokic is almost perfect for the 2025 lineup). Jokic has set himself apart from other fantasy assets this season quite dramatically; he’s averaging over 70 points per game, more than 20 points more than the 12th-ranked player (Donovan Mitchell; 50.6 FPPG). It’s safe to say we’ll be seeing Clowney on many fantasy basketball title lists come April.
Kawhi Leonard, frontcourt: Santa Claus must be very nice to Kawhi to cause such an outburst. This has been going on for a while, with Leonard putting up impressive numbers heading into 2025, averaging 29.5 points, 7.6 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 2.2 steals in December. Kawhi has scored 40 or more points in two of the last three games and scored a season-high 55 points in the Clippers’ win over the Pistons on Sunday night. Even better, Leonard looks healthy after missing most of November, which is a good sign for fantasy managers.
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Scotty Barnes, frontcourt: On Sunday night, Barnes was rebounding like Charles Barkley. The Raptors forward gave Toronto the win after scoring in stoppage time and sending the game into overtime. He finished with a triple-double of 23 points, 10 assists and a career-high 25 rebounds, plus four stocks. This is definitely an anomaly when looking at Barnes’ statistics, he doesn’t grab 20+ rebounds very often. But due to his category coverage, he’s one of the few players who can handle this type of game.
Jamal Murray, utility: Four of the six players on this week’s high-scoring Perfect Team have some connection to the Nuggets. Murray also had a strong performance on Christmas Day, scoring 60 points, but his highest score of the week came last Tuesday against Cooper Flagg and Dallas. Murray scored 31 points, 7 rebounds and 14 assists, just one point shy of his career high. The Nuggets have the best offense in the NBA, averaging 125.8 points per game, and Murray is one of the main reasons for that.