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    LeBron flying towards Olympic All-Time records?

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    We are all witness. Again and again.

    LeBron James continues to build his legacy at the Olympics.

    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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