LILLE (France) - Australia may have lost to Greece on Gameday 3 of the Paris Games but Boomers star Patty Mills continued his ascent up the Olympics all-time scoring leaderboard, moving into fifth place.
Mills totaled 13 points with 5 field goals made and 3 three-pointers, 3 rebounds and 1 assist in Australia's 77-71 loss to Greece. Mills, who will celebrate his 36th birthday a day after the gold medal game, tried to come up with big plays down the stretch.
Mills hit a big jumper with 3 minutes left and drew a charge on Giannis Antetokounmpo with just more than 2 minutes to play. But the Boomers just could not come up with enough scores to beat Greece and must wait to see what their Quarter-Finals fate looks like.
Mills now ranks fifth in scoring all-time with 541 points, moving past Brazilian Wlamir Marques' 537 points. Next up for Mills would be Argentina great Luis Scola with 591 points.
Most points scored all-time at the Olympics
Mills also moved up to fifth place in field goals made, jumping past Sergei Belov of Soviet Union, Cuba's Ruperto Herrera Tabio and Yugoslavia's Drazen Dalipagic with 195. Scola is fourth with 236 field goals made.
Most field goals made all-time at the Olympics
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