A lot has been made of Jokic’s 40 point, 27 rebound, 10 assist triple-double (in 39 minutes) historically. Rightfully so I suppose when Wilt Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor are the only other two people to have a game like this. Wilt did it four times and Baylor once, with the most recent one happening 54 years ago. There have been two others that have come close in the last 50 years. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had a 44-point, 20-rebound, 11-assist game on Feb. 26, 1972 and DeMarcus Cousins had 44 points, 23 rebounds and 10 assists on Jan. 22, 2018.
What is remarkable to me is that it’s not even his best game this week. Four days earlier Jokic’s scored 43 points, 14 rebounds, 8 assists, 5 steals on 20 floor shots (17-20 FG’s, 9-10 FT’s) in 33 minutes had a higher game score on basketball reference. It just goes to show you how triple-doubles are hyped, but they overlook a lot of efficiencies and other value. Really what is the difference in having 8 assists as opposed to 10 assist. Not that much. Give me the game where he scores 43 points and shoots 85% on 20-floor shots for my money. That’s even with 8 turnovers it was still a better game even if it is fun anytime you get to do something in modern basketball not done since the 1960s. Only previously done by pretty much only by Wilt Chamberlin as well.
min
FGM
FG%
FTM
FT %
Reb
Ast
Stl
Blk
PTS
Gamescore
2022-12-14
33:03:00
17
0.85
9
0.9
14
8
5
1
43
42.9
+28
2022-12-18
39:41:00
13
0.5
12
0.706
27
10
2
0
40
38.3
+20
These are his two highest-rated games ever by game score
min
FGM
FG%
FTM
FT%
Reb
Ast
Stl
Blk
Pts
game score
2022-03-06
42:34:00
16
0.727
11
0.917
12
11
3
4
46
48.7
+22
2022-01-19
41:16:00
16
0.64
14
0.875
14
10
3
1
49
48.2
+15
Here are the highest regular season game scores since 1983
