I was reading a Simmons article where he mentioned that Timmy once dropped a 21-20-10-8 performance in a Finals game 6. That got me wondering if anyone has ever got a quadruple-double.
After looking on Wikipedia, four people have accomplished such a feat. Hakeem Olajuwon did it twice! His best was:
29 points, 18 rebounds, 10 assists, 11 blocks
Which is sick. But then they listed "near" quad-doubles and this one that Jordan crafted was almost more impressive yet:
42 points, 9 rebounds, 11 assists, 8 steals
I know Olajuwan had twice as many rebounds but scoring 42 points and getting 11 assists is just silly. Not to mention that steals are usually harder to come by than blocks (especially if the guy getting the blocks is a 7-footer).
What would you guys say is the likelihood of Bronkey-Kong getting a triple-double or dare I even say it, a quad-double, in the Finals this year?
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it seems pretty likely on any given night that bron could get a TD, although historically he doesnt get them with the frequency that i expected. quad? thats tough i don't remember the last time i heard of someone getting a quad.
i think i'm most impressed by that olajuwon you cited, although that jordan line is nuts. i forget how nuts he was- i was at this bar the other day in galveston (please don't ask why) and they were playing some oldschool footage of some finals with jordans bulls and the trailblazers and DANG. i guess i was just so young in his hayday and i need to rewatch some old jordan cause he f@#%*d those guys up like nobody does these days.
they were putting some great defensive effort on him and he just did not care. incredible stuff.
but back to hakeem- he may be my all time favorite player.. i LOVE that line. 11blks and 10asts is there anyone that can do that these days?
which brings me to my new post idea... (see 'who would you choose?')
Definitely check out this brief wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadruple-double
It lists near misses and also properly notes that Bill Russell, Wilt, the Logo, & Big O, all might have claim to the all-time quad-doub record but we'll never know because blocks & steals weren't recorded until '73.
One other interesting stat that it mentions was one I'd never heard of, a 5x5 (five-by-five): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-by-five_%28Basketball%29
As if this crowd needed more proof... Hakeem truly was a badass.
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