Nuggets star Nikola Jokić finished Friday’s victory with averages of 29.8 points, 12.8 rebounds and 10.3 assists.

DENVER (AP) — Nikola Jokić has averaged a triple-double for the season, making the Denver star the third player in NBA history to pull off such a feat.

Jokić clinched the accomplishment with his fourth assist in Friday’s 117-109 victory over Memphis. It was was his 700th assist of the season, assuring him of averaging no fewer than 10.0.

He finished with 26 points, 13 rebounds and 16 assists, putting his averages at 29.8 points, 12.8 rebounds and 10.3 assists for the season.

The other players to average a triple-double for a full season: Russell Westbrook, Jokić’s current Denver teammate, and Basketball Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson.

Westbrook did it four times — 2016-17, 2017-18 and 2018-19 for Oklahoma City, as well as in 2020-21 for Washington — and Robertson did it in the 1961-62 season for Cincinnati.

The assist that clinched it for Jokić came on a score by Christian Braun with about 52 seconds left in the first half. It was not originally credited; the boxscore was updated at halftime.

Jokić — the Serbian star who has won three of the last four Kia NBA MVP awards and is a top candidate for that honor again this season along with Oklahoma City’s Shai Gilgeous-Alexander — entered Friday with 33 triple-doubles this season, which is more than any other three players in the league combined.

No other NBA player else entered Friday with more than 10 this season.