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Nikola Jokic already has three career 30-point triple-double games with 0 turnovers. Nobody else has done that more than once over the last 40 seasons. (alien.top)
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Jokic scored 32 points with 15 assists and 10 rebounds in the 134-124 victory over the Rockets on Wednesday night.

As StatMuse detailed, after posting yet another triple-double in the win, Jokic has now posted three career 30-point triple-doubles in games where he had zero turnovers. 

Per the stats site, no other player has done it more than once in the past 40 seasons.

https://twitter.com/statmuse/status/1730080315404677276

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[–] nothalaman@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

As a center too, that is wild as hell

[–] Shhadowcaster@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Isn't it a little less wild as a center? He's not ball handling nearly as much as most triple double guys, but the offense still runs through him. Don't get me wrong he has an incredible passing ability and not turning the ball over on any of his passes is great, but the general risk for TOs should still be a bit less than ball handlers.

[–] nothalaman@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

How did you say that the TO risk is less? Maybe for rim running centers, but most high usage bigs in the league have high TOs (Giannis, Embiid, etc.) Even most historical high usage centers had a terrible AST:TO ratio (i.e. Hakeem, Shaq)

[–] greenwhitehell@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Being a center makes it more wild, being Jokic makes it less. Meaning Jokic's skillset is perfectly suited for this type of statlines, like you say, but a center being able to regularly get 10+ assists is unparallelled.

The usual mold for guys like this is more of an elite rebounding guard, or forward with elite guard skills (Bird and Lebron). We've never seen this skillset coming from a center before.