Back to back triple-double seasons.
It’s shocking to think how little respect that phrase garners when just a year and a half ago the notion that a player could average a triple-double for even a single season, considering the modern NBA game, was considered impossible.
Now, for whatever reason, triple-doubles, even though they still represent a unique level of excellence, get little respect. To hear white noise pundits like Colin Cowherd tell it, they are nothing but low hanging fruit in an overburdened orchard.
However, what Cowherd and his ilk fail to tell their audience is that there is really only one tree in the orchard.