NBA Steals Leaders 2025-26
Ausar Thompson and Dyson Daniels lead the NBA at 2.0 steals a game. The full 2025-26 steals leaderboard follows.
2025-26 NBA steals per game leaders
| Player | Team | SPG | GP |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ausar Thompson | DET | 2.0 | 73 |
| Dyson Daniels | ATL | 2.0 | 76 |
| Cason Wallace | OKC | 1.9 | 77 |
| Kawhi Leonard | LAC | 1.9 | 65 |
| Tyrese Maxey | PHI | 1.9 | 70 |
| Kris Dunn | LAC | 1.6 | 82 |
| Luka Doncic | LAL | 1.6 | 64 |
| OG Anunoby | NYK | 1.6 | 67 |
| Amen Thompson | HOU | 1.5 | 79 |
| Donovan Mitchell | CLE | 1.5 | 70 |
| Jordan Goodwin | PHX | 1.5 | 70 |
| Reed Sheppard | HOU | 1.5 | 82 |
| Ryan Rollins | MIL | 1.5 | 74 |
| Trey Murphy III | NOP | 1.5 | 66 |
| Anthony Black | ORL | 1.4 | 64 |
| Anthony Edwards | MIN | 1.4 | 61 |
| Cade Cunningham | DET | 1.4 | 64 |
| Dru Smith | MIA | 1.4 | 70 |
| Marcus Smart | LAL | 1.4 | 62 |
| Nikola Jokic | DEN | 1.4 | 65 |
| Scottie Barnes | TOR | 1.4 | 80 |
| Shai Gilgeous-Alexander | OKC | 1.4 | 68 |
| VJ Edgecombe | PHI | 1.4 | 75 |
| Donte DiVincenzo | MIN | 1.3 | 82 |
| Immanuel Quickley | TOR | 1.3 | 70 |
How these leaders are decided
Every figure is a per-game average from the league’s own season statistics. Where the feed publishes an average it is used directly; where it publishes only a season total, the total is divided by that player’s games played. Nothing here is estimated or projected.
The league qualifies its per-game titles at 58 appearances in an 82-game season. Applied flat that would empty every board until February, so the same fraction is scaled to the games a club has actually played — which converges on the published rule by game 82 rather than approximating it. The threshold is computed per club, because schedules differ by a game or two at any moment.
All 30 clubs are included — a leaderboard assembled from some of the league reads as the league's and is not one, so the boards do not publish at all unless every club's statistics can be read.