Russell Westbrook reached yet another milestone last night against the Atlanta Hawks, notching the 100th triple-double of his career.
The Oklahoma City Thunder point guard now has more than double the number of triple-doubles than the next-best NBA franchise since coming into the league during the 2008-09 season. He also has more than 23 of the other 29 active franchises have all-time.
Since entering the league, Russ has over twice as many triple-doubles as any other FRANCHISE. pic.twitter.com/lEfPthGB1w
— NBA on ESPN (@ESPNNBA) March 14, 2018
What has been the most surprising is the ridiculous pace in which he's racked them up, getting a whopping 63 of his total 100 within the last two seasons — still making a major gap between him and the next best team, LeBron James' Cleveland Cavaliers.
Westbrook is a one-man wrecking ball on the court and that has shown ever since he became the lone franchise player in OKC, taking full rein of the team's outcome in his own hands. True enough, they live and die by The Brodie.
The Long Beach native is not at the torrid pace he was during his MVP season in 2016-17, but he has 21 triple-doubles this season, one shy of James Harden's career-best, still with another 12 games to go in the campaign.
Westbrook is in line to get yet another triple-double season with averages of 25.3 points, 10.2 assists, and 9.6 rebounds per game, but he'll need to start pounding the glass even harder if he hopes to achieve this extraordinary feat before the season comes to an end.
Not even the great Oscar Robertson was able to put up two triple-double seasons. Such accomplishment, if Westbrook reaches it, should catapult him as the NBA's undisputed triple-double king of all time.
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