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    Durant, James keep flying up the all-time leaderboards

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    KD and LeBron keep building up his Olympics legacy

    Another game for United States meant another game for USA's superstars Kevin Durant and LeBron James. Both moved further up multiple Olympic all-time leaderboards in the game against South Sudan.

    LILLE (France) - Kevin Durant and LeBron James are not only two of the greatest in the history of basketball but they are two legends in Olympics basketball, combining for five gold medals. Both United States superstars added more to their legacy by climbing multiple all-time leaderboards, including Durant moving into ninth place in scoring and James taking second place in steals.

    James totaled 12 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists and 1 steal in USA's 103-86 win over South Sudan.

    Check the full game report:

    USA dominant against South Sudan, secure first spot

    Durant came off the bench and picked up 14 points with 2 three-pointers, 2 rebounds, 3 assists and 3 steals.

    Durant's 14 points allowed him to move to ninth place all-time with 472 points - passing Drazen Petrovic of Yugoslavia and Croatia and Drazen Dalipagic of Yugoslavia, who both had 461 points. Durant remains just 3 points behind eighth placed Sergei Belov of Soviet Union.

    Most points scored all-time at the Olympics

    Rank

    Player

    Team

    Points

    1

    Oscar Schmidt

    Brazil

    1093

    2

    Andrew Gaze

    Australia

    789

    3

    Pau Gasol

    Spain

    649

    4

    Luis Scola

    Argentina

    591

    5

    Wlamir Marques

    Brazil

    537

    6

    Patty Mills*

    Australia

    528

    7

    Manu Ginobili

    Argentina

    523

    8

    Sergei Belov

    Soviet Union

    475

    9

    Kevin Durant*

    USA

    472

    10

    Drazen Petrovic

    Yugoslavia-Croatia

    461

     

    Drazen Dalipagic

    Yugoslavia

    461

    James' five assists saw the two-time Olympic gold medalist to move into fifth place on the all-time charts with 102, moving past Matthew Dellavedova of Australia and just five behind Argentina legend Manu Ginobili.

    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

    LeBron James*

    USA

    102

    6

    Matthew Dellavedova*

    Australia

    100

    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.

    Both stars took steps up the steals leaderboard. James now ranks tied for second all-time on 38 steals alongside Spain's Rudy Fernandez, Australia's Patty Mills and USA's Chris Paul. Durant's three steals moved him into the top 10, pulling past Facundo Campazzo of Argentina, Spain's Ricky Rubio and France's Nando de Colo with 28.

    Most steals all-time at the Olympics

    Rank

    Player

    Team

    Steals

    1

    Andrei Kirilenko

    Russia

    43

    2

    LeBron James*

    USA

    38

     

    Rudy Fernandez*

    Spain

    38

     

    Patty Mills*

    Australia

    38

     

    Chris Paul

    USA

    38

    6

    Manu Ginobili

    Argentina

    37

    7

    Dwyane Wade

    USA

    35

    8

    Sarunas Jasikevicius

    Lithuania

    33

    9

    Pablo Prigioni

    Argentina

    32

    10

    Kevin Durant*

    USA

    30

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

    James and Durant both have been part of the USA's dominant run over the years and both moved up the games won list. James has been part of 23 USA victories to tie for 5th place and Durant is tied for 8th with 22 wins.

    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

    LeBron James*

    USA

    23

     

    Rudy Fernandez*

    Spain

    23

     

    David Robinson

    USA

    23

    8

    Kevin Durant*

    USA

    22

     

    Pau Gasol

    Spain

    22

    10

    Juan Carlos Navarro

    Spain

    21

     

    Felipe Reyes

    Spain

    21

     

    Andrew Gaze

    Australia

    21

     

    Wlamir Marques

    Brazil

    21

    *Active players

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