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.
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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