Kristaps Porzingis wants to record quadruple-double one day
Recording a quadruple-double in an NBA game is not something a mortal being can achieve. Fortunately for New York Knicks phenom Kristaps Porzingis, he’s not a mortal being.
In an interview with Marc Berman of the New York Post on Friday, Porzingis listed a quadruple-double as a goal of his.
“It’s not impossible — 10 assists, 10 rebounds, 10 blocks, 10 points,” Porzingis said. “I was messing around about it as something crazy to do. But it’s in the back of my mind. One day, maybe I’ll be able to do that.”
The 21-year-old is definitely setting the bar high for himself here, considering that only four players in NBA history (Nate Thurmond, Alvin Robertson, Hakeem Olajuwon, and David Robinson) have pulled off the feat. Robertson recorded his with steals instead of blocks, Olajuwon managed to do it twice, and Robinson was the last one to accomplish it back in 1994.
Porzingis should have no trouble getting halfway there as he averaged 14.3 points per game as a rookie and has logged double-digit rebounds in 21 of the 72 games he’s played in so far. But Porzingis’ single game career-high in blocks is “only” seven (something he’s done twice), and he’s never recorded more than four assists in a game during his NBA career.
Still, 10 or more blocks in a game has been achieved 15 different times in the last decade alone (most recently by Miami Heat center Hassan “Human Blocktopus” Whiteside), and Porzingis is showing no signs of stagnation as he enters his sophomore season in the Association.
It’s never wise to place limits on a unicorn, so don’t put a quadruple-double out of the realm of possibilities for King Kristaps just yet.
H/T theScore
