Nikola Jokic will be a triple-double for the season on average, making the Denver star the third player in the NBA history to do such an achievement.
It became statistically certain Fridy -night when Jokic got his fourth assist from Denver’s match against the Memphis Grizzlies. That assist was his 700th of the season – so, even if he doesn’t get one before the end of Sunday’s regular season, which would be his 70th match, he is assured of the average of no worse than 10.0 assists.
The other players to be a triple-double for a full season: Russell Westbrook, the current Denver teammate of Jokic and Basketball Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson.
Westbrook did the four times 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 for Oklahoma City, as well as in 2020-21 for Washington and Robertson did it in the 1961-62 season for Cincinnati.
The assist who conquered it for Jokic came to a score by Christian Braun with about 52 seconds in the Crup half. It was originally not a credit; The box score was updated at the rest. Jokic also received a triple-double for the game, his 34th of the season.
Jokic-de Serbian star who has won three of the last four NBA MVP prizes and is a top candidate for that honor Anti League combined. No other NBA player otherwise Fridy entered with more than 10 this season.
This is the first time that Jokic averages are double digits in assists. His earlier career was the best of 2022-23, when he ended with 9.8 assists together with 24.5 points and 11.8 Reboubs.
“If you have a man like Jokic, who has created a lot of attack for his teammates, everyone will really look good if you Don’s Don’s the right things,” said Minnesota -Coach Chris Finch earlier this month.
Jokic has also been sure that this season has been completed, on average to scoring career in scoring and will probably also end with the second best rebound average of his career. This season he will also set career-bests in 3-Pointers and 3-point percount.
Jokic needed 73 points in the last two games of the season – against the Grizzlies on Friday and the final in Houston on Sunday – to push his scoring Avege to 30.0 for the season. If that happens, this was the third 30-point Triple-Double average in the NBA history; Westbrook and Robertson both did that once.
Jokic has 164 regular season Triple-Doubles for his career, second host in NBA history behind Westbrook’s 203. Jokic is the second player in the history of NBA who has at least 30 triple Doubles in a season; The other is Westbrook, who interviewed that performance three times.
Reporting by the Associated Press.
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