Double-double

Double-Double is Canadian slang for a coffee with double cream, double sugar. It is also a burger at In-N-Out Burger.

A double-double is a basketball term, defined as an individual performance in a game in which a player accumulates a double digit number total in any two of these categories: points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocked shots. The most common double-double is a combination of points and rebounds, and then next is points and assists.

Double-doubles, unlike the more difficult triple-doubles (or ultra-rare quadruple-doubles), are very common in the NBA, and in fact there is usually at least one player in each NBA game that manages to record one. In each NBA season, rarely do more than a handful of players average a double-double.

During the 2005-06 season, only seven players who were eligible for leadership in the main statistical categories averaged a double-double for the entire season (listed in descending order of points per game) were Elton Brand, Shawn Marion, Kevin Garnett, Steve Nash, Tim Duncan, Dwight Howard and Troy Murphy. All of the above players averaged double figures in both points and rebounds except for Nash, whose categories were points and assists. All except Brand also averaged double-doubles in 2004-05.

Special double-doubles are rare "double double-doubles", in which a player at least scores 20 in two of the five categories, unthinkable "triple double-doubles" (respectively at least 30) and near-impossible "quadruple double-doubles", in which a player achieves the feat of logging at least 40 in two of five statistics. Gaining 40 in any category in basketball is already an impressive accomplishment (even more so if the category isn't point). This highly spectacular feat was achieved only once in NBA history, by Wilt Chamberlain, who once scored 78 points and grabbed 43 rebounds in a 1961 game for the Philadelphia Warriors against the Los Angeles Lakers.