One of the many cultural icons of my generation is the 1992 US men’s Olympic basketball team: The Dream Team. While this oral history of the greatest team ever is good, I must admit I was a little disappointed by it. It doesn’t seem nearly long enough. I know there were more great stories that could have been repeated.<\/p>\n
\n Johnson: Oh man, the best basketball I ever played was during those practices. Because everybody said, \u201cLet\u2019s strap up.\u201d
\n Wilkens: Our last scrimmage, Magic\u2019s team was dominating Michael\u2019s team. And the guys were teasing Michael, because he was playing golf every morning. Well, that did it. The whole thing turned around.
\n Thorn: He got upset, so he started to score every time down the floor. One time he drove, and the refs called, like, a real tick-tack foul. So Magic booted the ball up to the ceiling: \u201cThis is ridiculous! Just like the NBA! He gets every call!\u201d
\n Hubbard: Magic was saying, \u201cThis must be what it\u2019s like playing in Chicago Stadium,\u201d because Michael was getting the calls. And Michael said, \u201cWell, this is the \u201990s, not the \u201980s.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the many cultural icons of my generation is the 1992 US men’s Olympic basketball team: The Dream Team. While this oral history of the greatest team ever is good, I must admit I was a little disappointed by it. It doesn’t seem nearly long enough. I know there were more great stories that could have been repeated. Johnson: Oh man, the best basketball I ever played was during those practices. Because everybody said, \u201cLet\u2019s strap up.\u201d Wilkens: Our last scrimmage, Magic\u2019s team was dominating Michael\u2019s team. And the guys were teasing Michael, because he was playing golf every morning. Well, that did it. The whole thing turned around. Thorn: He got upset, so he started to score every time down the floor. One time he drove, and the refs called, like, a real tick-tack foul. So Magic booted the ball up to the ceiling: \u201cThis is ridiculous! Just like the NBA! He gets every call!\u201d Hubbard: Magic was saying, \u201cThis must be what it\u2019s like playing in Chicago Stadium,\u201d because Michael was getting the calls. And Michael said, \u201cWell, this is the \u201990s, not the \u201980s.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[31,127,23],"class_list":["post-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-basketball","tag-nostalgia","tag-olympics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14679,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions\/14679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}