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After Ovechkin Breaks Gretzky’s Record, More Historic Achievements in Sports

After Ovechkin Breaks Gretzky’s Record, More Historic Achievements in Sports
Rory McIlroy reacts after winning in a playoff against Justin Rose in the final round at the Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Ga., on April 13, 2025. AP Photo/Ashley Landis
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Just last week, I had the pleasure of writing about Alex Ovechkin setting the career record for regular-season goals in the National Hockey League. Little did I dream that a week after Ovechkin made history, two more sports figures would also make history.

Basketball

On April 11, Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets basketball team became only the third player in NBA history to average a triple-double over the course of an entire regular season. The other two players to reach this rare summit are Jokic’s Nuggets teammate Russell Westbrook, who has achieved the milestone four times, and all-time great Oscar Robertson, who did it once in the early 1960s.
Mark Hendrickson
Mark Hendrickson
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Mark Hendrickson is an economist who retired from the faculty of Grove City College in Pennsylvania, where he remains fellow for economic and social policy at the Institute for Faith and Freedom. He is the author of several books on topics as varied as American economic history, anonymous characters in the Bible, the wealth inequality issue, and climate change, among others.