Most points averaged in a WNBA season: Where Jewell Loyd, Breanna Stewart, A'ja Wilson rank on list with Diana Taurasi

There's no currency more valuable in basketball than points.

The game's greatest players tend to produce more points than most. Getting to your spot and dropping baskets over even the most dogged of defenders is a skillset that will never go under-appreciated in basketball circles.

The WNBA is no exception. Those who place the ball on target represent some of the league's highest-paid and highest-profile talents. Whether it's firing off arrows from beyond the arc or slaloming through the lane for layups through contact, those who are able to score at an elite rate tend to last long in women basketball's top flight division.

Including repeat performers, just 13 different players have averaged more than 22 points a game over the course of a full season in the WNBA. Even in a sport that has embraced high-tempo play, high-level scorers are still worth their weight in gold.

With that, here's what you need to know about the highest-scoring seasons in WNBA history, both by scoring average and total points scored.

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Most points averaged in a WNBA season

Diana Taurasi owns the league's record for highest scoring average in a single season, dropping 25.29 points a night in 2006. It's one of two Taurasi campaigns which place in the top-five; she also has the third-highest scoring season in league history by way of scoring average, recording 24.12 points per game in 2008.

Among the top-15 season-long scorers in WNBA, four were inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame: Lauren Jackson, Katie Smith, Cynthia Cooper and Seimone Augustus. Seven are active WNBA players. And perhaps most interestingly, three took place in 2023.

Here's a window into the WNBA's greatest single-season scorers:

Of the top-15 single-season scorers in WNBA history (by average), five have won MVP in the same season: Moore, Jackson, Delle Donne, Stewart and Cooper. Just two won championships in the same corresponding year: Cooper in 1998 and Wilson in 2023.

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Most points in a single WNBA season

While Taurasi is the league's most prolific scorer by way of scoring average, she is not the single-season leader in points scored over the course of a single year. That record belongs to Jewell Loyd, who dropped 939 points in 2023. She's joined at the top by Breanna Stewart and A'ja Wilson, who scored 919 and 912 points, respectively, in 2023.

Here's a look at the greatest scoring seasons by way of points scored.