{"id":465794,"date":"2026-02-08T05:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T05:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/465794\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T05:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T05:09:08","slug":"jokic-passes-oscar-robertson-for-second-most-triple-doubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/465794\/","title":{"rendered":"Jokic passes Oscar Robertson for second-most triple-doubles"},"content":{"rendered":"

CHICAGO — Nikola Jokic<\/a> had 22 points, 17 assists and 14 rebounds to pass Oscar Robertson for the second-most triple-doubles in NBA history and the Denver Nuggets<\/a> ended a three-game skid with a 136-120 victory over the Chicago Bulls<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

It was Jokic’s 182nd regular-season triple-double, 19th this season and second in as many games. He trails only Russell Westbrook<\/a>, who has 207.<\/p>\n

Jamal Murray<\/a> had 28 points and 11 assists and Tim Hardaway Jr<\/a>. added 23 points for the Nuggets, who capped a three-game road trip with a win after losing at Detroit and New York.<\/p>\n

Most Triple-Doubles Through 3 QuartersNikola Jokic78Russell Westbrook59Luka Doncic22>>>Since 1997-98<\/p>\n

Matas Buzelis<\/a> scored 21 points and Collin Sexton<\/a> added 17 for the Bulls, who have lost four straight.<\/p>\n

The Bulls led 104-97 after closing the third period on a 16-2 run, but Denver started the final quarter on a 20-2 spurt to take the lead for good. Jokic and Julian Strawther<\/a> capped the run with consecutive 3-pointers.<\/p>\n

Chicago went the first six minutes of the fourth before making its first field goal and finished the final period 5 for 17 from the floor.<\/p>\n

Jokic had nine points, 11 rebounds and seven assists in 17 first-half minutes, but the Bulls led 65-59 at the intermission.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO — Nikola Jokic had 22 points, 17 assists and 14 rebounds to pass Oscar Robertson for the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-465794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465794","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=465794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}