Patty Mills surpasses Manu Ginobili in all-time Olympic scoring

Former Spurs guard Patty Mills simply handed former Spurs guard Manu Ginobili for all-time factors scored in Olympic males’s basketball.

Ginobili completed his Olympic profession with 523 factors.

Within the Boomers final sport, Mills upped his whole to 528, simply 9 factors behind Wlamir Marquez of Brazil, subsequent on the listing.

Australia performs Greece at present and Patty Mills is poised to maneuver into the fifth highest scoring whole behind Argentinian Luis Scola (591), Pau Gasol (649), Andrew Gaze (789), and high scored by an outstanding margin Oscar Schmidt (1093).

As well as, Mills is fourth all-time for 3-pointers made within the Olympics behind Kevin Durant, Gaze and Schmidt and second in steals behind Russian Andrei Kirlienko. Fairly a powerful Olympic profession for the 2014 NBA Champion.

Of the ten males on the scoring listing, 5 — Schmidt, Marques, Belov, Petrovic, and Dalipagic — have scoring accumulations which have stored them on this listing for many years starting from forty to sixty years.

The opposite 5 have ties to the Spurs. Mills, Ginobili, Andrew Gaze, and Paul Gasol all performed for the Spurs, the primary three successful titles with the Silver & Black. Luis Scola was drafted by the Spurs however as a result of monetary restraints, by no means suited up. He did go on to play within the NBA.

Good luck, Patty. And as Invoice Land says, “good on you.”

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