LeBron flying towards Olympic All-Time records?

LeBron flying towards Olympic All-Time records?

July 28, 2024

LILLE (France) – LeBron James continues to build his amazing legacy in the Olymipcs, climbing the all-time Top 10 leaderboards of three stats in the USA’s comfortable win over Serbia – assists, steals and games won.

James collected 21 points, 7 rebounds, 9 assists and one steal in USA’s 110-84 victory over the Serbs.

LeBron James was dealing the ball against Serbia

The nine dimes pushed James’ career total to 97 to move him from ninth place to sixth.

Most assists all-time at the Olympics

Rank

Player

Team

Assists

1

Sarunas Jasikevicius

Lithuania

160

2

Sarunas Marciulionis

Soviet Union-Lithuania

121

3

Toni Kukoc

Yugoslavia-Croatia

112

4

Manu Ginobili

Argentina

107

5

Matthew Dellavedova*

Australia

100

6

LeBron James*

USA

97

7

Shane Heal

Australia

95

8

Sun Fengwu

China

94

9

Andrew Gaze

Australia

89

10

Facundo Campazzo

Argentina

84

*Active players

The assist was introduced as a statistic for the Olympics in 1976.

James also moved up the all-time steals leaderboard with his one steal, moving into a tie for third place – just one steal from second place.

Most steals all-time at the Olympics

Rank

Player

Team

Steals

1

Andrei Kirilenko

Russia

43

2

Chris Paul

USA

38

3

LeBron James*

USA

37

 

Manu Ginobili

Argentina

37

 

Rudy Fernandez*

Spain

37

6

Patty Mills*

Australia

36

7

Dwyane Wade

USA

35

8

Sarunas Jasikevicius

Lithuania

33

9

Pablo Prigioni

Argentina

32

10

Facundo Campazzo

Argentina

28

 

Ricky Rubio

Spain

28

*Active players

The steal was introduced as a statistic for the Olympics in 1996.

The other category was games won as James has now been part of 22 USA victories – pulling him with Spaniards Pau Gasol and Rudy Fernandez for sixth place.

Most games won all-time at the Olympics

Rank

Player

Team

Games won

1

Gennadi Volnov

Soviet Union

29

 

Sergei Belov

Soviet Union

29

3

Carmelo Anthony

USA

28

4

Kresimir Cosic

Yugoslavia

25

5

David Robinson

USA

23

6

LeBron James*

USA

22

 

Rudy Fernandez*

Spain

22

 

Pau Gasol

Spain

22

9

Kevin Durant*

USA

21

 

Juan Carlos Navarro

Spain

21

 

Felipe Reyes

Spain

21

 

Andrew Gaze

Australia

21

 

Wlamir Marques

Brazil

21

*Active players

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