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Jordan Clarkson

There have been over 1,200 regular-season triple-doubles in the NBA since Feb. 13, 2008.

The number of triple-doubles, variety of players who have logged them and the number of All-Stars the Utah Jazz have fielded over the last 15 years would lead you to believe that the Jazz must have at least had one during the regular season.

Nope.

For 15 years, the Jazz were left thirsting in a triple-double drought. Deron Williams, Gordon Hayward, Donovan Mitchell and Rudy Gobert were unable to reach the milestone, and though others had come close, the drought dragged on through the end of 2023.

Then, on Jan. 1, 2024, Jordan Clarkson played brilliantly to create the perfect storm that ended that drought.

With 20 points, 11 assists and 10 rebounds in a 127-90 win over the Dallas Mavericks, Clarkson logged his first career triple-double, and ended what seemed like a triple-double curse in Utah’s.

If I could have picked somebody on our team right now to break the streak, it would have been Jordan,” Jazz coach Will Hardy said.

Clarkson is the Jazz’s longest-tenured player and final player remaining who played under the previous coaching regime.

He was with the Jazz when they won 52 games in the 2020-21 season to lead the Western Conference.

He was with them through crushing playoff losses, through the NBA bubble in Orlando, and he was named Sixth Man of the Year in 2021, after he was asked to revamp his offensive game.

He is the only player on the Jazz roster that survived the 2022-23 teardown of the team and once again has been asked to change his game.

But becoming more of a facilitator while also still scoring with his trademark flair gave him the room he would need to finally log double-digits in three different stats columns.

It would have been unfair at this point for anyone other than Clarkson to be the one to break the spell. And coincidentally, it was as if the stars aligned for him.

Clarkson was 15 years old when Carlos Boozer notched a triple-double for the Jazz in a win over the Seattle SuperSonics back in 2008.