Fantasy Basketball High Score Perfect Lineup for Week 10: Nikola Jokić posts season's top score
- - Fantasy Basketball High Score Perfect Lineup for Week 10: Nikola Jokić posts season's top score
Ben ZweimanDecember 30, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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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's 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.
Nikola Jokić is the best basketball player in the world and it's only fitting that he's the one to enter 2026 with the highest output of any player in High Score. The Nuggets big man had 108(!) fantasy points in a Christmas Day classic, a 142-138 win over the Minnesota Timberwolves in overtime. Jokić 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, who had 101 fantasy points back in November.
We'll be hard-pressed to find anyone who can top Jokić's career Christmas performance, but the season is still young. Let's look at the rest of the High Score perfect lineup from the final week of 2025.
The top-six performances overall by position from Week 10. (Taylor Wilhelm)More from the top performers
Cade Cunningham, guard: The Pistons 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 Jokić and Luka Doncic 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's when Cunningham really shines.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander, guard: We haven't 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't 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 Grizz with 31 points, 10 rebounds and 8 assists with 5 stocks.
Nikola Jokić, frontcourt: We'll be brief because we already went over this up top (and we've seen Jokić is pretty much every perfect lineup in 2025). It's pretty remarkable how Jokić has separated himself from other fantasy assets this season; he's averaging over 70 fantasy points per game and that's over 20 more fantasy points per game than the 12th-ranked player (Donovan Mitchell; 50.6 FPPG). It's safe to say we're going to see Joker on a lot of fantasy basketball championship rosters in April.
Kawhi Leonard, frontcourt: 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' win over the Pistons on Sunday evening. What's even better is, after missing most of November, Leonard appears to be healthy, a great sign for fantasy managers.
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Scottie Barnes, frontcourt: Barnes was ripping down rebounds like Charles Barkley on Sunday evening. The Raptors forward helped Toronto to victory after scoring on a putback to force overtime. He'd 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't going to grab 20+ boards often. But he's one of the few players capable of these types of games because of his category coverage.
Jamal Murray, utility: 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 and Dallas. Murray had 31 points, 7 boards and 14 assists, one shy of his career high. The Nuggets sport the NBA's best offense by a wide margin, averaging 125.8 points per contest, Murray being one of the main reasons for that.
Source: “AOL Sports”
