The real story of the greatest team in NBA history, the 1992 Dream Team that won Olympic gold in Barcelona. Hear the incomparable players in their own words, including Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, Scottie Pippen, Clyde Drexler, Karl Malone and the others. Renowned sportswriter and author Jack McCallum was there with the guys and brings us the thrilling memories, personal stories, and sometimes surprising anecdotes of the twelve historic players.
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Episode Transcript
Coming into the nine Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea,
the United States had compiled an astonishing seventy one and
one record in men's basketball. Basketball was our game, and
in no other venue was that so apparent as in
the Olympics. But that year was different. While the rest
of the world, who had been learning the game from
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the Americans, were sending their best players, the American team,
made up of all college players, struggled to an embarrassing
bronze medal finish. That was the last time we sent
our boys. Now it was time to send our men.
Larry Bird studied Tippy Michael sure john stuffed Tris Mullet. Well,
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let's see. Patrick Johnson said it was his best memory ever.
I finally got stand till with Michael and Layer and
also know him at me, and that that right there
for me was the best all the ninth Michael Nax
Days Chairs Michael Jordan used it as a scouting expedition
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like me. For me because I never got to see
how the better got lived. It was more of a
scouting for me. I wanted to see how Maddie ja.
Larry Bird said, well, good thing. It didn't go on
any longer. I always say, if that team was together
another two weeks, we would had a lot of problems.
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You can see it. And the late great David Stern,
who died on New Year's Day, Wait a minute, called
me a Bozoh. Now when people don't remember, it's like
boose like you that would say, this is now the
dream Team of flessed memory. They forget Charles Elbows, the
angle in you know, bad sportsmanship, the US. This is crazy.
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What are we doing going? And hope you go back
and why are you sending these things? This is the
humili eight people. Michael covered up this logo with the
American plague. I mean it was a you know now
it becomes the atified. That is just a small sample
of what I got during the two years it took
me to right. Dream Team, the two thousand and twelve
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New York Times bestseller about what many, probably most, consider
the greatest team of all time. The Dream Team Tapes
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