Open Thread: Patty Mills surpasses Manu Ginobili in all-time Olympic scoring

The Spurs history with Olympic basketball continues to be written

Former Spurs guard Patty Mills just passed former Spurs guard Manu Ginobili for all-time points scored in Olympic men’s basketball.

Ginobili finished his Olympic career with 523 points.

In the Boomers last game, Mills upped his total to 528, just nine points behind Wlamir Marquez of Brazil, next on the list.

Australia plays Greece today and Patty Mills is poised to move into the fifth highest scoring total behind Argentinian Luis Scola (591), Pau Gasol (649), Andrew Gaze (789), and top scored by a phenomenal margin Oscar Schmidt (1093).

In addition, Mills is fourth all-time for 3-pointers made in the Olympics behind Kevin Durant, Gaze and Schmidt and second in steals behind Russian Andrei Kirlienko. Quite an impressive Olympic career for the 2014 NBA Champion.

Of the ten men on the scoring list, five — Schmidt, Marques, Belov, Petrovic, and Dalipagic — have scoring accumulations that have kept them on this list for decades ranging from forty to sixty years.

The other five have ties to the Spurs. Mills, Ginobili, Andrew Gaze, and Paul Gasol all played for the Spurs, the first three winning titles with the Silver & Black. Luis Scola was drafted by the Spurs but due to financial restraints, never suited up. He did go on to play in the NBA.

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

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