As he often likes to repeat, Draymond Green doesn’t need to score to be useful to his team. Indeed, in some ways it is precisely by building the best possible shots to his teammates that he helped the Golden State Warriors build their dynasty. A game like the one tonight against New Orleans, however, she had never really seen herself: Green has in fact closed with the house specialty, that is the double double without needing points, grabbing 12 rebounds and dishing out 11 assists for his teammates. So far, however, nothing strange: during his career it has already happened on 18 other occasions that Green would finish a game like that, and he’s not even the all-time record holder given that Jason Kidd even has 25. Green, however, succeeded without ever looking at the basket: not only he never shot from the fieldneither by two nor by three points, but he didn’t even earn a trip to the foul line, closing at 0 in every statistical item. Well: something like this has never happened in the history of the NBA. There is only one recorded performance that comes close, but November 4, 1967 a Wilt Chamberlain obviously on strike for some reason closed with zero shots attempted in a performance of 18 rebounds and 13 assists. Too bad though the trip to the bezel earned, closing with 1/2 to free throws to “dirty” the 44 minutes in which he remained on the field in a victory for his Philadelphia 76ers against the San Francisco Warriors 117-110. Chamberlain has only one other double-double without a point in his career (31 rebounds and 10 assists in 1971 while shooting only twice for 3 total points), but no one else in the NBA has come close to the feat Green accomplished tonight.
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