Time ran out for Kanter on his quest to get a 20-20 game, but his final statline was impressive nonetheless: 22 points and 19 rebounds in only 23 minutes. Your first thought when you see such a statline should be “Would that have been the fastest 20-20 game ever if he had grabbed that extra rebound?”. Because random and arbitrary statistical accomplishments should be the FIRST thing on your mind.
And the answer is “yes”. Assuming that by “fastest” you mean “lowest minutes played”, because there have probably been times where dudes got 20-20 pretty quick and then got to keep playing (because of how good they were doing). Dwight Howard had exactly 20 and 20 in 26 minutes for Orlando about a decade ago, as well as Bob Pettit with 22 and 20 in the same amount of time. Kanter’s 23 minutes is way lower than both of those, but it doesn’t even matter, because of one rebound.
I could go back through the game and try to find an instance of a Celtics player stealing a rebound from Kanter (I can imagine Marcus Smart doing such a thing quite easily…), and then publically shame them on Twitter for taking a notable statistical achievement away from one of their teammates. How many times have we seen people get clowned on for stealing the rebound that could’ve been a triple-double for a teammate? This is the same situation.
But I’m too lazy for that. We’re just going to assume that Smart stole a rebound from Kanter at some point and get started with the public shaming.