Source: Good News Network
On this day 26 years ago, a U.S. ‘Dream Team’ won the gold medal in basketball at the Barcelona Olympics with a combination of superstars that some called the greatest sports team ever assembled: Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Scotty Pippen, Charles Barkley, and Patrick Ewing.
WATCH a montage of the most spectacular plays—moves that would impress even the least interested… (1992)By the end of the 1980s, American amateurs were no longer competitive against seasoned professionals from the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia, so in 1989, international basketball’s governing body, FIBA, modified its rules to allowed a USA team fielded with National Basketball Association players. The Soviets voted against the proposal that FIBA Secretary General Borislav Stanković had advocated for years.
The team scored 100 points in every game—the first Olympic team to do so– and never called a single time-out during the entire competition, another record. Jordan later said, “That was the highlight of my career. It always will be.”
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