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 |
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 |
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 |
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