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    10 Aug 2024

    Patty Mills jumps to 4th place for most threes, ties for 5th in steals

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    Patty Mills continued to climb the all-time steals leaderboard

    Patty Mills helped Australia to a big victory to start the Olympics and jumped up two all-time Top 10s.

    LILLE (France) - The longer Patty Mills plays at the Olympics, the more the Australian guard leaves his mark on the game. And the Boomers star moved up two all-time leaderboards in Australia's opening game of Paris 2024: into fourth place for most three-pointers made and tied for fifth for most steals.

    In scoring 19 points, Mills drained three three-pointers as Australia opened their Paris 2024 Olympics with a 92-80 win over Spain to give the Boomers star 71 career triples. That left Mills tied with fellow Boomers star Shane Heal for fourth place.

    Most three-pointers made all-time at the Olympics

    Rank

    Player

    Team

    Three-pointers made

    1

    Oscar Schmidt

    Brazil

    103

    2

    Andrew Gaze

    Australia

    86

    3

    Kevin Durant*

    USA

    74

    4

    Patty Mills

    Australia

    71

     

    Shane Heal

    Australia

    71

    6

    Rimas Kurtinaitis

    Soviet Union-Lithuania

    65

    7

    Manu Ginobili

    Argentina

    62

    8

    Sanrunas Jasikevicius

    Lithuania

    60

    9

    Carmelo Anthony

    USA

    57

    10

    Rudy Fernandez*

    Spain

    53

    *Active players

    The three-pointer was introduced as a statistic for the Olympics in 1988.

    Mills also climbed the all-time steals list as he swiped two steals to give him 36 career steals. That moved Mills from seventh place coming into Paris 2024 past Dwyane Wade of USA, who had 35 steals; and pulled him even with LeBron James of USA.

    Manu Ginobili of Argentina and Rudy Fernandez rank tied for third with 37 steals.

    Most steals made all-time at the Olympics

    Player

    Team

    Steals

    Andrei Kirilenko

    Russia

    43

    Chris Paul

    USA

    38

    Manu Ginobili

    Argentina

    37

    Rudy Fernandez*

    Spain

    37

    LeBron James*

    USA

    36

    Patty Mills

    Australia

    36

    Dwyane Wade

    USA

    35

    Sarunas Jasikevicius

    Lithuania

    33

    Pablo Prigioni

    Argentina

    32

    Facundo Campazzo

    Argentina

    28

    Ricky Rubio

    Spain

    28

    *Active players

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

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