{"id":355476,"date":"2025-12-18T05:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T05:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/355476\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T05:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T05:59:07","slug":"another-triple-double-josh-giddey-keeps-climbing-bulls-record-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/355476\/","title":{"rendered":"Another triple-double: Josh Giddey keeps climbing Bulls’ record books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian guard Josh Giddey<\/a> has posted his sixth triple-double of the NBA<\/a> season and grabbed another slice of Chicago Bulls history, piloting his team to a much-needed home win over Cleveland.<\/p>\n

After winning just one of their previous nine outings, the Bulls shot at 56% from the field in their 127-111 victory at the United Centre<\/a> on Thursday (AEDT).<\/p>\n

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Chicago’s best performance in some time marked their first home win in 25 days and first triumph over the Cavaliers since February 2024.<\/p>\n

Giddey shone with 23 points, 11 assists and 11 rebounds, as well as two steals.<\/p>\n

The 23-year-old was 5-of-11 from three-point range, tying his career-high tally for made triples, and put the exclamation point on a strong display with a big late block on Thomas Bryant.<\/p>\n

It was payback after Bryant previously mimicked Giddey falling after De’Andre Hunter’s crossover last month.<\/p>\n

Giddey’s performance took his career tally to 24 triple-doubles, ranked outright 23rd all-time and just four behind the legendary Michael Jordan.<\/p>\n

Giddey also now ranks third with 13 triple-doubles in a Bulls uniform, behind only Jordan (28) and Scottie Pippen (15).<\/p>\n

Josh Giddey posted his sixth triple-double of the season.\u00a0Photo by Melissa Tamez\/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n

He has six this season after posting seven last season in his first campaign with the Bulls following a move from Oklahoma City Thunder.<\/p>\n

Remarkably, Giddey is the first Bulls player in history with 400+ points, 200+ rebounds and 200+ assists in the team’s first 25 games of the season.<\/p>\n

“I’m feeling good,” Giddey told CHSN post-game.<\/p>\n

“Obviously you want to win as a player and I think that’s the next step for me, is figuring out how to continue to lead these guys to wins.<\/p>\n

“The stats and all that stuff is nice but I think winning is always No.1 on my priority list.<\/p>\n

“We’ve got to figure out a way as a group and I’ve got to figure out how I can lead these guys as best I can to wins, and keep giving these people that come out every night to support us something to cheer for.”<\/p>\n

Chicago improved to 11-15, with Coby White (25 points) and Nikola Vucevic (20) also influential, while Cleveland slipped to 15-13 despite a game-high 32 points from Donovan Mitchell.<\/p>\n

The Cavs are ranked ninth in the Eastern Conference, one spot above the Bulls, with the teams to renew hostilities in Cleveland on Saturday (AEDT).<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Australian centre Jock Landale posted a double-double for Memphis in their 116-110 win over Minnesota.<\/p>\n

Landale had 20 points, 10 rebounds, three assists and two steals for the Grizzlies, while Jaren Jackson Jr added 28 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australian guard Josh Giddey has posted his sixth triple-double of the NBA season and grabbed another slice of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-355476","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\/355476","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=355476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}