{"id":261586,"date":"2025-11-04T08:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T08:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/261586\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T08:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T08:45:11","slug":"watch-out-larry-legend-giddey-passes-nba-icons-on-msg-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/261586\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch out Larry Legend! Giddey passes NBA icons on MSG list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball.com.au\/news\/chicago-bulls-nba-profile-five-things-you-need-to-know\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chicago Bulls<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball.com.au\/news\/selected-all-time-boomers-starting-five\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Boomers<\/a> star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball.com.au\/news\/aussies-in-the-nba-josh-giddey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Josh Giddey<\/a> is fast becoming one of the best triple-double machines in NBA\u00a0history, and he&#8217;s doing it at the world&#8217;s most famous arena in Madison Square Garden.<\/p>\n<p>Giddey recorded his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball.com.au\/news\/aussies-in-the-nba-chicago-bulls-josh-giddey-records-19th-career-triple-double-against-new-york-knicks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fourth triple-double at MSG on November 3<\/a>, putting together a stat line of 23 points, 12 rebounds and 12 assists in Chicago&#8217;s first loss of the season against the New York Knicks as the Melbourne Tigers point guard continues his All-Star type form to start his 2025-26 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>It was Giddey&#8217;s 19th triple double. Clearly Giddey likes playing in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The performance took the 23-year-old to second on the &#8216;most regular season road triple doubles at the current Madison Square Garden&#8217;, passing former NBA MVP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball.com.au\/news\/greatest-players-in-nba-history-russell-westbrook\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russell Westbrook<\/a>, who has three in 17 games.<\/p>\n<p>Giddey is tied with arguably the second greatest player in NBA\u00a0history,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball.com.au\/news\/greatest-players-in-nba-history-lebron-james\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0LeBron James<\/a>, on four triple-doubles but did it in only six games compared to 32 for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball.com.au\/news\/los-angeles-lakers-nba-profile-five-things-you-need-to-know\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers star<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The 23-12-12 triple-double against the Knicks has Giddey trailing only Boston Celtics legend <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball.com.au\/news\/greatest-players-in-nba-history-larry-bird\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Larry Bird<\/a>, who had six triple-doubles in 29 games at MSG. <\/p>\n<p>The good news, Giddey has 22 games left at the arena to catch Larry Legend!<\/p>\n<p>Most regular season road triple doubles at the Madison Square GardenJosh Giddey Career Triple-Double SummaryTotal: 19Teams: 11 with Oklahoma City, 8 with Chicago BullsRecord in those games: 13 wins \u2013 6 lossesLatest: Nov 3 2025 vs New York Knicks (23 pts \u2502 12 reb \u2502 12 ast)Highest points in a triple-double: 28 ( twice )Most rebounds in a triple-double: 19 (vs Portland, Apr 4 2025)Most assists in a triple-double: 17 (vs Lakers, Mar 22 2025)Youngest: 19 years 84 days (Jan 2 2022 vs Dallas)Oldest: 23 years 23 days (Nov 2 2025 vs New York)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago Bulls and Australian Boomers star Josh Giddey is fast becoming one of the best triple-double machines in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-261586","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261586","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}