NBA & ABA Year-by-Year Playoff Leaders and Records for Personal Fouls Per 36 Minutes

Active players are listed in bold
* Indicates member of the Hall of Fame.

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Year Lg Player PF/36 MP Tm
2026 NBA Isaiah Stewart 7.85 DET
2025 NBA Thomas Bryant 5.39 IND
2024 NBA Isaiah Jackson 5.61 IND
2023 NBA Cody Zeller 5.79 MIA
2022 NBA Dwight Powell 5.78 DAL
2021 NBA Jusuf Nurkić 6.24 POR
2020 NBA Dwight Howard* 7.02 LAL
2019 NBA Andrew Bogut 7.64 GSW
2018 NBA Pascal Siakam 5.43 TOR
2017 NBA Kelly Oubre Jr. 7.43 WAS
2016 NBA Marreese Speights 7.70 GSW
2015 NBA Pero Antić 6.87 ATL
2014 NBA Ömer Aşık 6.40 HOU
2013 NBA Nick Collison 7.48 OKC
2012 NBA Kenyon Martin 6.72 LAC
2011 NBA Jason Collins 7.06 ATL
2010 NBA Zaza Pachulia 7.60 ATL
2009 NBA Andrew Bynum 6.93 LAL
2008 NBA Robert Horry 7.95 SAS
2007 NBA Francisco Elson 6.42 SAS
2006 NBA Alonzo Mourning* 7.81 MIA
2005 NBA Michael Ruffin 7.62 WAS
2004 NBA Michael Olowokandi 8.04 MIN
2003 NBA Tony Battie 7.10 BOS
2002 NBA Jason Collins 7.61 NJN
2001 NBA Malik Rose 6.36 SAS
2000 NBA Corie Blount 8.00 PHO
    Luc Longley 8.00 PHO
1999 NBA Malik Rose 9.65 SAS
1998 NBA Antoine Carr 7.77 UTA
1997 NBA Antoine Carr 8.23 UTA
1996 NBA Frank Brickowski 9.61 SEA
1995 NBA Jeff Turner 8.85 ORL
1994 NBA Luc Longley 8.05 CHI
1993 NBA Carl Herrera 6.65 HOU
1992 NBA Will Perdue 7.80 CHI
1991 NBA Will Perdue 7.45 CHI
1990 NBA Ed Nealy 7.11 CHI
1989 NBA Olden Polynice 7.11 SEA
1988 NBA Antoine Carr 8.06 ATL
1987 NBA Greg Kite 9.00 BOS
1986 NBA Wayne Cooper 7.25 DEN
1985 NBA Mitch Kupchak 7.68 LAL
1984 NBA Rich Kelley 7.52 UTA
1983 NBA Edgar Jones 8.21 SAS
1982 NBA Darryl Dawkins 7.36 PHI
1981 NBA Kevin McHale* 6.20 BOS
1980 NBA Mark Landsberger 6.46 LAL
1979 NBA Dennis Awtrey 8.00 SEA
1978 NBA Wally Walker 7.03 SEA
1977 NBA Robert Parish* 6.33 GSW
1976 NBA George Johnson 6.34 GSW
  ABA Kim Hughes 7.17 NYA
1975 NBA Don Chaney 5.63 BOS
  ABA Byron Beck 5.70 DNA
1974 NBA Kevin Porter 5.54 CAP
  ABA Wendell Ladner 6.51 NYA
1973 NBA Art Williams 7.15 BOS
  ABA Wendell Ladner 8.97 KEN
1972 NBA Tom Sanders* 6.97 BOS
  ABA Doug Moe 5.88 VIR
1971 NBA Mike Riordan 5.57 NYK
  ABA Les Hunter 7.77 KEN
1970 NBA Mel Counts 8.15 LAL
  ABA Bud Olsen 7.68 KEN
1969 NBA Tom Sanders* 7.31 BOS
  ABA John Clawson 6.90 OAK
1968 NBA Wayne Embry* 8.00 BOS
  ABA Willie Porter 9.27 PTP
1967 NBA Paul Neumann 7.09 SFW
1966 NBA Darrall Imhoff 6.22 LAL
1965 NBA Larry Costello* 7.48 PHI
1964 NBA Willie Naulls 6.68 BOS
1963 NBA Jim Krebs 8.86 LAL
1962 NBA Jim Loscutoff 10.02 BOS
1961 NBA Jim Krebs 7.28 LAL
1960 NBA Gene Conley 7.90 BOS
1959 NBA Gene Conley 9.17 BOS
1958 NBA Chuck Share 8.86 STL
1957 NBA Arnie Risen* 11.37 BOS
1956 NBA Alex Hannum* 8.15 STL
1955 NBA Dick Rosenthal 6.72 FTW
1954 NBA Dick Schnittker 7.07 MNL
1953 NBA Chuck Share 8.18 FTW
1952 NBA Noble Jorgensen 7.20 SYR