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

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

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

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

1. 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.

External links

• German League official website Archived 2009-09-25 at the Wayback Machine (in German)