On January 16, Beijing time, Nicola Jokic won the 66th regular season triple-double in his NBA career, officially surpassed James Harden in the NBA's historical regular season triple-double list, rushed to the seventh position in history, but unfortunately he once again became an "empty slasher", and the Nuggets lost to the Jazz 102-125 at home.
The Nuggets beat the Lakers by 37 points 133-96 in the last game, but faced the Jazz back-to-back in a back-to-back game suddenly collapsed in the fourth quarter, scoring only 14 points in the fourth quarter but giving the Jazz 34 points, and finally going from a big win to a fiasco overnight, which is indeed a bit regrettable.
In this game, Jokic still showed his all-round ability, hitting 10 of 18 shots in 37 minutes of playing time, including 5 three-pointers of 2 of 5 shots, all three of 3 free throws, 25 points, 15 rebounds, 14 assists and 2 steals, all four statistics are the highest in the team, and only 3 mistakes.
This is already the 66th regular season triple-double in Jokic's NBA career, and he has officially surpassed Harden on the NBA's all-time player regular season triple-double list, rising to seventh place in history. Among the NBA players, only Russell Westbrook and LeBron James have more regular-season triple-doubles than Jokic.
It is worth mentioning that Jokic is also the second-most triple-double in NBA history, and only the "Basketball Emperor" Wilt Chamberlain a center has more triple-doubles in the regular season than Jokic. Chamberlain has had triple-doubles in 78 regular-season games in his NBA career, while Abbay Abdul-Jabbar, who has the third-most regular-season triple-doubles in NBA history, has only had a triple-double in 21.
In addition, only 2 of the 28 players in NBA history who have won no less than 20 triple-doubles in the regular season have only 2 second-round picks, except for Jokic, who was selected with the 41st overall pick in the second round of the 2014 NBA Draft, and Drummond Green, who was selected with the 35th overall pick in the second round in 2012, but Green has only won a triple-double in 30 regular season games so far.
As the NBA regular season MVP winner last season, Jokic still played beautiful personal data this season despite the Nuggets' serious injury problems, but he has been reduced to the air slash emperor many times, regrettably, hoping that the Nuggets will not waste his peak time.