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    New King: LeBron first player with two Olympic triple-doubles

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    LeBron. The king. The legend

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    PARIS (France) - LeBron James is the new king of the Olympic triple-double after the United States superstar registered the masterful achievement against Serbia in the Semi-Finals - his second triple-double in the Olympics.

    James tallied 16 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists in a 95-91 victory over Serbia to get USA into the Gold Medal Game.

    The 39-year-old is one of only three players to collect a triple-double along with Sasha Belov of Soviet Union and Luka Doncic of Slovenia.

    • Belov had 23 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists against Canada in 1976.

    • James tallied 11 points, 14 rebounds and 12 assists versus Australia in 2012

    • Doncic had 16 points, 10 rebounds and 18 assists against France in 2021.

    "I am always trying to be aggressive and make plays for our team. I just try to leave everything on the floor and my teammates believe in me," said James, who is playing in his third Olympics.

    When asked where this moment stacks in his career, he responded: "It's up there. I am 39 years old going into my 22nd season. I don't know how many more opportunities I will get like this."

    James also made more history by moving into second place for assists all-time in Olympics history. With his 10 dimes, he moved to 129 assists and passed Sarunas Marciulionis of Soviet Union and Lithuania. Lithuanian great Sarunas Jasikevicius is the only player with more assists at 160.

    Most assists all-time at the Olympics

    Rank

    Player

    Team

    Assists

    1

    Sarunas Jasikevicius

    Lithuania

    160

    2

    LeBron James*

    USA

    129

    3

    Sarunas Marciulionis

    Soviet Union - Lithuania

    121

    4

    Toni Kukoc

    Yugoslavia-Croatia

    112

    5

    Manu Ginobili

    Argentina

    107

    6

    Matthew Dellavedova*

    Australia

    101

    7

    Shane Heal

    Australia

    95

    8

    Sun Fengwu

    China

    94

    9

    Marcelinho Huertas*

    Brazil

    89

    -

    Andrew Gaze

    Australia

    89

    James' one steal left him just one shy of tying the all-time leader, Russia's Andrei Kirilenko.

    Most steals made all-time at the Olympics

    Rank

    Player

    Team

    Steals

    1

    Andrei Kirilenko

    Russia

    43

    2

    LeBron James*

    USA

    42

    3

    Patty Mills*

    Australia

    40

    4

    Rudy Fernandez

    Spain

    38

    -

    Chris Paul

    USA

    38

    6

    Manu Ginobili

    Argentina

    37

    7

    Dwyane Wade

    USA

    35

    8

    Sarunas Jasikevicius

    Lithuania

    33

    9

    Kevin Durant*

    USA

    32

    -

    Pablo Prigioni

    Argentina

    32

    The duo of James and Kevin Durant together moved up additional spots in the all-time games won list. James has helped USA to 26 wins - fourth place on the list - and Durant ranks tied for fifth with 25 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

    LeBron James*

    USA

    26

    5

    Kevin Durant*

    USA

    25

    -

    Kresimir Cosic

    Yugoslavia

    25

    7

    Rudy Fernandez*

    Spain

    23

    -

    David Robinson

    USA

    23

    -

    Pau Gasol

    Spain

    22

    10

    Juan Carlos Navarro

    Spain

    21

    -

    Felipe Reyes

    Spain

    21

    -

    Andrew Gaze

    Australia

    21

    -

    Wlamir Marques

    Brazil

    21

    *Active players

    The assist was introduced as a statistic for the Olympics in 1976, the steal was introduced in 1996.

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