"Triple-double", this basketball record looks very valuable in the former NBA league, and star players who get such a record in an ordinary game will be blown up by fans for days. However, due to changes in the style of play of modern players, triple-doubles seem to have become very common these days, and there are even players who have achieved exaggerated triple-doubles per game for the season. As a result, fans are now scoffing at triple-double records and feeling that this kind of data doesn't mean anything at all.
However, the playoff triple-double and the regular season triple-double are not the same concept, it still has a lot of gold, until now, there are only eight players in the history of the NBA who can get more than 10 triple-doubles in the playoffs, and those players who can get a lot of triple-doubles in the regular season can not play such a gorgeous performance in the playoffs, after all, the intensity of the NBA playoffs is not at the same level as the regular season. Today, let's take a look at which eight guys can get more than 10 triple-doubles in the playoffs.
8. Rajon Rondo, who has a total of 10 triple-doubles in the playoffs
As the key fourth of the Green Army's Big Three in '08 and the Lakers' main point guard in '20, tactician Rajon Rondo can be described as a playoff regular, making the playoffs 10 times in his 16-year NBA career, playing a total of 134 playoff games and getting 10 playoff triple-doubles.
Unable to attack, Rondo's passing skills are excellent, often averaging double-doubles per game. With such a double-double data as a foundation, coupled with a tough performance in the playoffs, Rondo can often stage a small and big scene, so as to raise his rebounds to a very impressive statistic, achieving 10 playoff triple-doubles, that is, on average, every 13.4 playoff games, he can get a triple-double, and the efficiency is not bad.
7. Larry Bird, who has 10 triple-doubles in the playoffs
In his 13-year NBA career, Larry Bird made the playoffs 12 times and played a total of 164 playoff games, averaging a triple-double every 16.4 games.
It is estimated that many people did not expect that the legendary NBA superstar "Big Bird" Larry Bird only got 10 triple-doubles in the playoffs, you must know that he is a superstar who once competed with Magic Johnson, and won three consecutive regular season MVPs, which is a super honor that even the basketball god Michael Jordan can't achieve. While it may seem unbelievable, it's a testament to how hard it can be to get more than 10 triple-doubles in the playoffs.
6. Draymond Green, who has 10 triple-doubles in the playoffs
Draymond Green, in his 12-year NBA career, has made the playoffs nine times and played in 157 playoff games, averaging a playoff triple-double every 15.7 games.
In stark contrast to Larry Bird, who is so strong to get ten triple-doubles in the playoffs, Draymond Green, who is scoffed by many as "Dream Green", has also achieved 10 triple-doubles in the playoffs, which can't help but be surprising. Some people may question why ten triple-doubles in the playoffs are not so golden, why can Dream Green match this odds?
However, the dream chasing Green at his peak is not as unbearable as everyone thinks, he is also a ruthless person who can average 15.4 points, 10 rebounds, 6 assists, 1.7 blocks and 1.6 steals per game in the playoffs, and he averages two doubles per game in the playoffs.
5. Jason Kidd, who has 11 triple-doubles in the playoffs
Jason Kidd, a 19-year NBA career, made the playoffs 16 times, played in 159 playoff games, and averaged a playoff triple-double every 14.4 games. Jason Kidd, known as "Kibu", like Rajon Rondo, does not love his own offense, but often assists his teammates, so whether it is in the regular season or the playoffs, it is very easy to achieve an average of two doubles per game. In addition, another implication of "Kidd's offense" is that Kidd's defense is very good, so his rebounding control rate is also good, and 11 triple-doubles in the playoffs are naturally reasonable.
4. Russell Westbrook, who has 12 triple-doubles in the playoffs
Russell Westbrook, who is even more heavyweight, is the man who averages a triple-double per game in the regular season. However, as mentioned earlier, a triple-double in the regular season is not the same concept as a triple-double in the playoffs, and it is better than Westbrook, who can only get 12 triple-doubles in 118 playoff games, an average of one triple-double every 9.8 games. Of course, this efficiency is already very good compared to the previous ones, and it is enough to prove that his strength is not particularly false.
3. Nikola Jokic, who has a total of 16 triple-doubles in the playoffs
Nikola Jokic, who has been in the playoffs five times in his nine-year NBA career, has played a total of 69 playoff games and has 16 triple-doubles, an average of one playoff triple-double every 4.3 games. Like Westbrook, Jokic is also a ruthless man who can achieve an average triple-double per game in the regular season, but he is not only strong in the regular season, but also as fierce in the playoffs, scoring 16 triple-doubles in one breath in 70 playoff games, and the efficiency is unmatched.
2. LeBron James, who has a total of 28 triple-doubles in the playoffs
LeBron James, who has made the playoffs 17 times in his 21-year NBA career, has played a total of 280 playoff games and scored 28 triple-doubles, an average of one playoff triple-double every 10.1 games. It can only be said that the little emperor deserves to be the little emperor, he has played for so long, and he can still maintain his condition so well, and even entered the playoffs this year. If he plays well in the playoffs this year, it is not impossible to break the playoff triple-double record, and expect him to do so.
1. Elvin Johnson, who has a total of 30 triple-doubles in the playoffs
Elvin Johnson, the real god, has made the playoffs in all 13 years of his NBA career, and has a total of 30 triple-doubles, an average of one playoff triple-double every 6.3 games, neither in terms of number of games nor efficiency. But the more powerful Magic Johnson is, the more pitiful it becomes. If it weren't for that illness, I'm afraid his career would have been even more brilliant, and the record of a triple-double in the playoffs would not be so easy to be broken by future generations.