The North American legend finished the match against the Balkans with a triple double, only the fourth in Olympic history.
The United States suffered more than necessary but turned in a fantastic game against Serbia to reach the final of the Olympic Games and to a large extent the person responsible for this was LeBron James, who finished with a triple double to achieve the statistical milestone by a second time in his Olympic career.
Up until this point, the aforementioned was out of this world, but it begins to grow in value when it is noted that it has only happened four times in the history of the Olympic Games. And yes, LeBron has half.
The “King” finished the “comeback” against the Balkans with 16 points, 12 rebounds and 10 assists, repeating something he did for the first time at the London Olympics in 2012. That time he finished the quarterfinal match against Australia with 11 points, 14 boards and 11 assists.
The other two times this happened was at the hands of Luka Doncic in the final Games at Tokyo 2020+1, who added 16 points, 10 rebounds and 18 assists against France in the semifinals. While to find the first you have to go back to the semifinals of the 1976 edition in Montreal. It was the Soviet Alexander Belov, who scored 23 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists against Yugoslavia, two historic countries in the discipline that no longer exist today but already have Olympic gold medals in basketball in their history.
Source: Tycsports
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