Next summer marks the 20th Anniversary of The Dream Team. What's it gonna take to make sure it gets the full HBO Leiv Schrieber treatment? Surely someone was following them around with a camera, capturing all those great moments of them shooting pool and trash-talking each other, right?
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The Dream Team was one gigantic piece of bullshit. True Olympians got shut out of participating, after working their asses off, only b/c Magic wanted to play in the Olympics, or whatever. Fuck that noise.
your point re: amateurs is always valid, but the Dream Team transcended the Olympics; they were a snapshot of a generation that saved professional basketball handing off the baton. the teams they played were thrilled to be crushed by them.
that said, its become pointless to reel out pros since then. not because of any talent disparity, but personality/cultural significance.
The DT called bullshit on the farce that was "amateurism" in the late 20th century Olympics. Every other country of means paid and supported their athlete at significant financial levels.
The U.S. finally stopped being willing to play by a different set of rules than the rest of the world. The recent success of other countries in the World Championships and even at the Olympics just goes to prove that each country should be allowed to play their best players, regardless of professional/amateur status.
Not a single US college basketball player worked towards being an Olympian any harder than they worked towards playing in the NBA. The Dream Team did nothing to squash that far more ultimate goal.
thats a great point: "Not a single US college basketball player worked towards being an Olympian any harder than they worked towards playing in the NBA."
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