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Originally Posted by Cryomaniac
Didn't Wilt Chamberlain get pretty close to that once?
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I think that was Fallsy's point. Wilt did it in the early 60s but nobody's going to come close to that again because scoring is too distributed nowadays. FWIW I *do* think that the Big O's "record" of averaging a triple double is likely to be repeated sooner or later. Michael Jordan came close in 87-88 and offenses are getting back up to the level where a Lebron James could make a run.
Does football have any records like this? I can't think of anything that's really and truly out of anybody's grasp, in part because of the longer length of the season now compared to the 50s and 60s, in part because of many of the stats tracked being relatively new (sacks, for example... who knows how many sacks Deacon Jones or Johnny Blood had in their heyday?), but also because the game itself has evolved into the numbers that it tracks. For a while I thought that Dan Marino's TDs per season record might stand untouched but I was proven wrong about that this past year. Even the single-game records... IIRC Jamal Lewis came within 10 yards of the rushing record a few years back, and the passing record's only like 460 yards.