What is a Quintuple Double in the NBA?
What is a Quintuple Double? A Definition
A quintuple is an almost imaginary statistic in the NBA, defined as a player having a minimum of ten (or more) points, blocks, assists, rebounds and steals in a single game. In other other words, if done, it might just be one of the greatest accomplishments ever made by a single player in any professional sport.
It’s such a difficult thing to accomplish that not even the greatest players to ever play in the NBA can make a claim to have come anywhere close to it. Well, not necessarily. The NBA’s greatest earned their titles because they were absolute behemoths, so, kinda.
Has a player ever recorded a 10-10-10-10-10 in NBA?
To get straight to the point – no. It’s never been done, and unless a generational, maybe even a one-in-a-lifetime player pops out nowhere and accomplishes it, it will likely never be done. To be fair, some players have come a decent way towards this incredible feat.
The NBA's triple-double leaders
Career regular-season triple-doubles, through 2025-26.
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Player
Triple-doubles
Russell Westbrook
209
Nikola Jokic
198
Oscar Robertson
181
Magic Johnson
138
LeBron James
125
Jason Kidd
107
Luka Doncic
90
James Harden
82
Wilt Chamberlain
78
Domantas Sabonis
68
David Robinson had a Quadruple Double & 4 other near-Quintuple Doubles:
Hakeem Olajuwon
In On 3/10/87, Hakeem produced 38-17-6-7-12 box score. He was just box score 7 more points off. He would later go on to fall just 6 box score points away in 1990, and again 9 box score points short against Milwaukee. In this game, he managed a quadruple double, a feat only accomplished by three other players ever.
David Robinson
David Robinson, commonly referred to as ‘The Admiral’ played his entire career at the Spurs, and on 2/17/1994 he had a box score of 34-10-10-2-10. That’s just 8 points shy of the elusive quintuple double. That stat sheet made him the fourth and most recent player to record a quadruple double in a game.
Chris Webber
This former rookie of the year and 5-time All star ended his 1999 season with an impressive 25-15-8 -3- 9 against the Golden State Warriors on 2/7/1999, just ten points shy.
Andrei Kirilenko
He may not be a hall of famer like the other names on this list, but he still managed to finish with a 14-8-9-6-7 box score on 1/3/2006.
Draymond Green
He may not have come as close as the others, but we have to give credit to the fact that a 4-12-10-10-5 box score is super impressive. Getting a triple double with >10 points is pretty hard.
The closest anyone has come to a quintuple-double
Points-rebounds-assists-steals-blocks. The bar shows how many stat points the line was short of 10 in all five.
| Player | Date | Line | Short by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hakeem Olajuwon | Mar 3, 1990 | 29-18-9-5-11 | 6 |
| Hakeem Olajuwon | Mar 10, 1987 | 38-17-6-7-12 | 7 |
| David Robinson | Feb 17, 1994 | 34-10-10-2-10 | 8 |
| Hakeem Olajuwon | Mar 29, 1990 | 18-16-10-1-11 | 9 |
| Andrei Kirilenko | Jan 3, 2006 | 14-8-9-6-7 | 9 |
| Chris Webber | Feb 7, 1999 | 25-15-8-3-9 | 10 |
| Draymond Green | Feb 10, 2017 | 4-11-10-10-5 | 11 |
Non-NBA Quintuple Doubles: High School and College
It’s never been done in the NBA, but it has happened twice officially in girls’ high school games. The first was by WNBA legend Tamika Catchings with a 25-18-11-10-10 box score, and later by Aimee Oertner with an impressive 26-20-10-10-11 score.
Did Wilt Chamberlain Actually Record a Quintuple Double?
Legend has it that on 18/03/1968 Wilt Chamberlain allegedly posted a phenomenal box score of 53-32-14-24-11. No official records exist of the game, so we can never be entirely sure. But if there was someone that could do something this inhuman, it’s definitely the 100-point game man.
Which NBA Player is Most Likely to Record a Quintuple Double?
It takes a player who scores, rebounds and passes, and who also piles up steals and blocks. These are the names that come up most often:
- Victor Wembanyama – The obvious modern candidate. He has already had a triple-double with 10 blocks and a 5×5 game, and nobody else in the league blocks shots at his rate.
- Giannis Antetokounmpo – He scores, rebounds and passes at an elite level and has the length to get steals and blocks in bunches.
- Nikola Jokic – Points, rebounds and assists are automatic for him. The steals are there too; the blocks are the problem.
- LeBron James – In his prime he was the best all-around stat-sheet filler of his era, though 10 blocks was never his game.
- Russell Westbrook – The triple-double machine of the 2010s. Like LeBron, he would have needed a freak night of blocks.
Notice the pattern: almost everyone falls short in the same place. Guards and wings don’t block 10 shots, and big men rarely get 10 steals.
What is the statistical probability that a player will record a Quintuple Double in a game?
Effectively zero. Nobody has done it in an official NBA game since the league began tracking steals and blocks in 1973-74, and that covers tens of thousands of games.
For comparison, the quadruple-double has happened only four times in that span. A quintuple-double needs everything a quadruple-double needs, plus 10 more of the rarest stat.
