On Saturday night, the Thunder helped themselves in their quest to earn a playoff berth by emerging victorious from their battle with the Spurs.

Led by Russell Westbrook’s 21-point, 10-rebound, 12-assist triple-double—his 19th of the season—Oklahoma City prevailed, 104-94.

En route to being named the MVP last season, Westbrook famously became the second player in NBA history to average a triple-double over the course of an entire season. Westbrook’s 31.6 points, 10.7 rebounds and 10.4 assists was pretty impressive, to say the least.

What’s incredible to consider at this point, however, is the fact that the league’s reigning MVP actually has a chance to average a triple-double this season, as well.

Nobody saw that coming, but the math makes the proposition pretty straight forward, even if not easy.

Entering play on March 11, Westbrook is averaging 9.6 rebounds per game, along with 10.1 assists.

In 66 games, he’s totaled 634 rebounds and 669 assists. In each instance, in order to accomplish the triple-double, Westbrook would need to reach 800 in each category, assuming he plays every game from here on out (Westbrook missed two games earlier this season due to a sprained ankle).

In other words, with the Thunder having 14 games remaining in the season, assuming Westbrook plays all of them, he’d need to total 166 rebounds and 131 assists to end the season with averages of 10 of each.

That works out to 11.85 rebounds per game and 9.35 assists per game.

Considering the fact that Westbrook is actually averaging 10.1 assists per game this season, he’s ahead of pace and actually seems to be a fairly safe bet to end the season averaging at least 10 assists per game.

The rebounds, though? That’s another story. He would need to increase his rebounding by about 23 percent.

It’s certainly not an easy proposition, but the fact that it’s even possible is pretty amazing.

For the most part, the thought was that Westbrook was only able to accomplish his triple-double average by being a ball dominant player whose lack of a supporting cast allowed him to play as selfishly as necessary to accomplish the feat.

The same narrative couldn’t be told of this season. Despite the Thunder’s struggles, Westbrook has worked hard to incorporate Carmelo Anthony and Paul George and, by most measures, has amended his game appropriately to succeed playing alongside the two talented players…

Yet, with just over a dozen games remaining, he’s knocking on the door of yet another triple-double average…

Not even Oscar Robertson was able to do that.