San Antonio Spurs shooting guard Alvin Robertson was the second one (20pts, 11 rebs, 10 asts, 10 steals) against the Phoenix Suns on February 18, 1986.
The third and fourth came in the same year courtesy of Houston Rockets centre Hakeem Olajuwon - 29pts, 18 rebs, 10 asts, 11 blks; 18pts, 16 rebs, 10 asts, 11 blocks - against the Golden State Warriors and Milwaukee Bucks on March 3, and March 29, 1990.
San Antonio centre David "The Admiral" Robinson was the last one to emulate that feat - 34pts, 10 rebs, 10 asts, 10 blocks - against the Detroit Pistons on February 17, 1994.
All that out of the way, it's imperative to make it clear here that by no means are Hastings Boys' High School senior A players Marcos Edwards and Latrell Ah Kiong under any illusions that their names should be mentioned in the same breath as the Fab Four from NBA.
However, just as amateur golfers will tell you calculated luck has everything to do with nailing a hole in one although you still have to sink it, Edwards and Ah Kiong can claim to have registered quadruple doubles in the humble Hawke's Bay senior club grade competition.
Yes, it all helps on the way to reaching Hoop Heaven.
Point guard Edwards registered 20pts, 16 asts, 12 rebs, 10 steals against a Napier B team in the crushing 50-plus points victory in May when regular coach Curtis Wooten was undergoing total shoulder surgery and HBHS teacher Duane Clinton had assumed the mantle of mentor.
"Oh it's up there," says the 17-year-old when asked what it means to him although he hastens to add Napier B comprise predominantly year 10 and 11 pupils.
Before that Edwards' best scores were two triple doubles against other Bay high school senior A teams.
Needless to say, the year 13 pupil, who is co-captain of HBHS with Devante Miller, was aware of approaching the magical quadruple-double mark that night.
"They [teammates] were calling me a bully, saying I was picking on little kids and all that."
Edwards picked up a basketball when he was 7 so grandfather Elliott Hawea, now living in Hamilton, took him under his wing before the teenager's mother, Machiere Edwards, stoked his fire.
"I can express who I am when I'm playing basketball. I'm a pretty kick-back person, chilled and not really an angry guy," says Edwards who has designs on securing a US university scholarship but also "will look at the Hawks" if the opportunity arises.
Ah Kiong shot 34pts, 13 rebs, 12 asts, 10 steals against Taradale High School two Friday nights ago.
"It was my first time and it felt quite surreal. I couldn't really believe it," says the 16-year old point guard whose points haul included 10 three-pointers.
Teammate Alex Ryder was recording the statistics that night and had told him in the fourth quarter that he needed two steals and a rebound to join the quad club.
"I was just more worried about the game," says Ah Kiong, revealing Edwards is a relative and was giving him a bit of ribbing as HBHS "smashed" Taradale High 121-47.
He has only been shimmying, faking and putting up jump shots for five years after taking a shine to the code when his grandfather, Winiata Smiler, took him along to a team he was training.
His parents, Cheleme Smiler-Ah Kiong, and father Herman Ah Kiong, encouraged him to juggle it with rugby although it did help that sister, Aaliyah, 21, was thriving in the sport in her teenage years.
"It was an easy switch because at that age [11] I could play both," says the HBHS second XV fullback who was in the bolshy first XV squad for a while.
The year 11 pupils says his grandfather always reminds him "rugby is the sport, my boy".
"All my family have had something to offer to me so that's the reason why I'm into basketball.
"If things don't go well for me in rugby I can turn to basketball but rugby is my passion."
While Ah Kiong is blessed with talent his grandfather's words of wisdom forever reminds him that it's never enough to succeed at the higher echelons unless a person is prepared to work diligently for it.
