LeBron James continues to build his legacy at the Olympics.


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