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When a player reaches double figures in four of the five statistical categories — points, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks — he or she has achieved a quadruple-double. 

For example, if a player has 10 points, 10 assists, 10 rebounds and 10 blocks, this would be a quadruple-double.

The NBA’s official definition for triple-doubles notes that “reaching double figures in steals or blocks is extremely rare,” which explains why there have only been four quadruple-doubles throughout NBA history.

It’s worth mentioning that no NBA player has ever recorded 10 blocks and 10 steals in the same game. Hakeem Olajuwon came the closest against the Seattle SuperSonics on March 10, 1987, finishing with 38 points, 17 rebounds, 12 blocks, and 7 steals. He’s the only player in NBA history to record at least 7 blocks and 7 steals in the same game. (sleeper.com)

Is that how you spell WHOOP-DEE-DOO? I wrote it in without too much trouble, but then stared at it like "that doesn't look quite right?" I mean, who knows how you "spell" these things that people were only ever meant to say, but still, I thought possibly the "DEE" part was supposed to be shorter, like a "DI" or a "DE." And in fact ("fact" being the good people at merriam-webster dot com), the top-of-the-dictionary-entry spelling is WHOOP-DE-DO—no double-E and no double-O (in the last syllable). Even the "variant" that's listed only doubles the "O"; the "E" remains single. Single-E Single-O (in "DO") appears to be the standard across the board, dictionary-wise, though wiktionary opts for "DOO" in the last syllable. It's not like you can't find the "DEE" spelling in use all over the place ... well, in several places, anyway. There's a "kid-friendly variety show" with that name, and that spelling. Several memes spell it that way. Seems like people are just going their own way and spelling it how they want, and some of them want DEE. My main point in all this is that one of these answers (ACCESS HOLLYWOOD) felt surprising and interesting (mainly because the quadruple-double aspect sneaks up on you—the double letters aren't as ostentatious because only one of them is a vowel), while the other two felt contrived, and the "misspelled" exclamation is part of what screams "contrivance."MISS MISSISSIPPI also feels like a stretch. I'm sure she exists, every year, in whatever pageant she's in, but she's an oddly singular entity, one among fifty such oddly singular entities, where ACCESS HOLLYWOOD is just a mainstream show, and even WHOOP-DE(E)-DO(O) is just a regular old expression that anyone might say. The revealer itself is a bit out of the ordinary as well—by its own admission, an exceedingly rare thing. I don't mind it, but I wish it had yielded more interesting results than these. I confess that, spelling aside, I kinda like "WELL, WHOOP-DEE-DOO!" I like its jaded, deflating, not-having-any-of-your-fake-enthusiasm energy. And yet my first feeling upon seeing it in the grid was, "um, I think you have it confused with 'Zip-a-DEE-DOO-Dah?'"