Michael Jordan’s ’92 Olympic Dream Team: The Best Basketball Team Ever?

August 11th, 2010 by jeff kalafa Leave a reply »
Most NBA enthusiasts who remember the 1992 Summer Olympics will tell you the Dream Team is the best basketball team of all-time.  In those Olympics the Dream Team, the affectionate name for the American men's basketball team, won all of its eight games by an average of 44 points.

Ten of the Dream Team's players are on the NBA's list of the 50 Greatest PLayers.

The only two not on the list are five-time NBA All-Star Chris Mullin and Christian Laettner, the team's only college player and later a 13-year NBA veteran.

This was the team of Michael Jordan, Majic Johnson, and Larry Bird.  Except for centers Patrick Ewing and David Robinson, forward Karl Malone, and point guard John Stockton, everyone was interchangeable and could play forward and guard.

Charles Barkely, Scotty Pippen, and Clyde Drexler were the other members of the Dream Team.

This team could play small when it wanted to press or big when it wanted to dominate the boards.  The Dream Team was an amazing collection of NBA legends.

But let me tell you about another basketball team, in case you've never heard of them or just forgot them: ...

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