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The Raptors\u2019 Scottie Barnes finished Week 10 off with a triple-double, including a career-high 25 rebounds.<\/p>\n
As we approach 2026, the new year offers a fresh start, and that may be exactly what fantasy basketball managers are looking for depending on how their team looked in 2025. It\u2019s been about two months of High Score on Yahoo Fantasy, and this past week we saw our highest score of the season. And the player who posted the score may surprise none of you.<\/p>\n
Nikola Joki\u0107<\/a> is the best basketball player in the world and it\u2019s only fitting that he\u2019s the one to enter 2026 with the highest output of any player in High Score. The Nuggets\u2019 big man had 108(!) fantasy points in a Christmas Day classic, a 142-138 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves in overtime. Joki\u0107 finished with an insane 56-point triple-double, racking up 16 rebounds, 15 assists and 2 blocks. The previous top score belonged to Cade Cunningham<\/a>, who had 101 fantasy points back in November.<\/p>\n We\u2019ll be hard-pressed to find anyone who can top Joki\u0107\u2019s career Christmas performance, but the season is still young. Let\u2019s look at the rest of the High Score perfect lineup from the final week of 2025.<\/p>\n The top-six performances overall by position from Week 10. (Graphic viaTaylor Wilhelm)<\/p>\n More from the top performers<\/p>\n Cade Cunningham<\/a>: The Pistons\u2019 star was dethroned from his place as the top High Score total of the season but continues to be a staple in this lineup. He entered Sunday trailing only Joki\u0107 and Luka Don\u010di\u0107<\/a> in terms of fantasy points per game in High Score (59.2). Detroit has a deep lineup, so there will be floor games for Cunningham. But when the Pistons face a weak defense or are in a close game, that\u2019s when Cunningham really shines.<\/p>\n Shai Gilgeous-Alexander<\/a>: We haven\u2019t seen SGA often in this article. Gilgeous-Alexander has one of the better floors in fantasy basketball, but for High Score, his ceiling is limited by his lack of peripheral stats. The steals are consistent but Shai isn\u2019t an active rebounder and is usually in attack mode, rather than distributor mode. Last Tuesday, SGA came close to his first triple-double of the season against the Grizzlies with 31 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists with 5 stocks.<\/p>\n Nikola Joki\u0107<\/a>: We\u2019ll be brief because we already went over this up top (and we\u2019ve seen Joki\u0107 is pretty much every perfect lineup in 2025). It\u2019s pretty remarkable how Joki\u0107 has separated himself from other fantasy assets this season; he\u2019s averaging over 70 fantasy points per game and that\u2019s over 20 more fantasy points per game than the 12th-ranked player (Donovan Mitchell<\/a>; 50.6 FPPG). It\u2019s safe to say we\u2019re going to see Joker on a lot of fantasy basketball championship rosters in April.<\/p>\n Kawhi Leonard<\/a>: Santa must have been good to Kawhi to spark such an outburst. This had been building for some time and Leonard has had a very impressive finish to 2025, averaging 29.5 points, 7.6 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 2.2 steals per game in December. Kawhi has 40+ points in two of his past three games, scoring a season-high 55 in the Clippers\u2019 win over the Pistons on Sunday evening. What\u2019s even better is, after missing most of November, Leonard appears to be healthy, a great sign for fantasy managers.<\/p>\n [It\u2019s not too late to create or join a High Score league, a new way to play Fantasy Basketball on Yahoo with simple rosters and scoring<\/a>]<\/p>\n Scottie Barnes<\/a>: Barnes was ripping down rebounds like Charles Barkley<\/a> on Sunday evening. The Raptors forward helped Toronto to victory after scoring on a putback to force overtime. He\u2019d go on to finish with a triple-double on 23 points, 10 assists and a career-high 25 rebounds, plus 4 stocks. This is definitely an anomaly in terms of statistics with Barnes, who isn\u2019t going to grab 20+ boards often. But he\u2019s one of the few players capable of these types of games because of his category coverage.<\/p>\n Jamal Murray<\/a>: Four out of six of the players in the High Score perfect lineup from this week were connected in some way to the Nuggets. Murray was also great on Christmas with 60 fantasy points, but his highest score of the week came last Tuesday while going up against Cooper Flagg<\/a> and Dallas. Murray had 31 points, 7 boards and 14 assists, one shy of his career high. The Nuggets sport the NBA\u2019s best offense by a wide margin, averaging 125.8 points per contest, Murray being one of the main reasons for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Raptors\u2019 Scottie Barnes finished Week 10 off with a triple-double, including a career-high 25 rebounds. 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