The NBA "Triple Crown"

[Kai]

You think so? Interesting...so who has done that?

[Arcadian]

So here is the list of every player to accomplish this:

1970 Willis Reed (New York)
1971 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Milwaukee)
1983 Moses Malone (Philadelphia)
1984 Larry Bird (Boston)
1986 Larry Bird (Boston)
1987 Magic Johnson (LAL)
1991 Michael Jordan (Chicago)
1992 Michael Jordan (Chicago)
1994 Hakeem Olajuwon (Houston)
1996 Michael Jordan (Chicago)
1998 Michael Jordan (Chicago)
2000 Shaquille O’Neal (LAL)
2003 Tim Duncan (San Antonio)
2012 LeBron James (Miami)

So this was the second-longest layoff between two occurrences in history (9 years), while the longest layoff ended in 1983 (after 12 years).

*Note: the Finals MVP only began in 1969, while the MVP award began in 1956. So there were 13 players who could have potentially done it, but didn't have the chance...namely Bob Pet , Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson, and Wilt Chamberlain.

[Arcadian]

Hehe, good one.

So now make a list of every player to do it. (It will be a short list.)

[Kai]

Hehe, good one.

So now make a list of every player to do it. (It will be a short list.)

1.

[Arcadian]

Lol, nice.

...And that's why you can't really call it the triple crown, if only one guy in history has done it. Plus, DPOY is bull . It has been given to the wrong person more times than any other award.

[racm]

Lol, nice.

...And that's why you can't really call it the triple crown, if only one guy in history has done it. Plus, DPOY is bull . It has been given to the wrong person more times than any other award.

All-Defensive team is more accurate tbh. Why the hasn't Duncan won DPOY at any point in his career even if he made the All-Defensive team 13 straight times?

DPOY typically either goes to a big whose criteria are "how imposing is he physically and how many blocks per game goes he have?" or a wing whose criteria are "how much dirty D can he get away with without making the referees blow their superstar call whistles and how many steals per game does he have?"

That's why stats outside points/rebounds/assists are murky.

[Goran Dragic]

Triple crown is MVP, Finals MVP, Olympic Gold Medal.

No, a gold medal isn't an NBA award.

The real triple crown is MVP, Finals MVP and DPOY. Hakeem was the last player to do that.

[Goran Dragic]

looks like someone beat me to it.

[dbreiden83080]

It's a wonderful thing how well placed Duncan is in the record books..

1 of 8 to be Reg season MVP and Finals MVP same season.. (2003)
1 of 3 to have a triple double in a close-out game of the finals (Duncan 2003)
Duncan almost had a Quad Double, 21/20/10/8...

Amazing stuff....

[BanditHiro]

All-Defensive team is more accurate tbh..

not since Kobe tbh.

[rayjayjohnson]

*1999 and *2012

Only 2 Times In NBA History - Let Us Proceed!!!

[DMC]

NBA triple crown, by default, has nothing to do with the Olympics.

[DPG21920]

Lebron could have easily won the triple crown this year.