Dream TEAM
See also: The Dream TEAM
The Dream TEAM (“team of dream”) is the nickname given to the national team of Basket-ball of the the United States which took part in the Olympic Games of 1992 with Barcelona. It gathered the best players of the North-American championship: the National Basketball Association (NBA). She is generally regarded as the largest team of basketball of all times, even the largest team of all times all confused sports.
For the first time, the International Olympic committee and the International federation of basketball (FIBA) authorize, against the opinion of the American representatives, the players of professional basketball resulting from the NBA to take part in the Olympic Games. Previously, the United States was represented either by university players or by players evolving/moving in Europe.
Composition
- Charles Barkley (Phoenix Suns)
- Larry Bird (Boston Celtics)
- Clyde Drexler (Portland cement Trail Blazers)
- Patrick Ewing (New York Knicks)
- Earvin " Magic" Johnson (Los Angeles Lakers)
- Michael Jordan (Chicago bulldozers)
- Christian Laettner (Duke Blue Devils, only university player member of the team)
- Karl Malone (Utah Jazz)
- Chris Mullin (Golden delicious State Warriors)
- Scottie Pippen (Chicago bulldozers)
- David Robinson (San Antonio Spurs)
- John Stockton (Utah Jazz) which had replaced in extremis Isiah Thomas (Detroit Pistons)
Results
Preliminary round
- -: 116.-48
- -: 103 - 70
- -: 111 - 68
- -: 127 - 83
- -: 122 - 81
Quarter-of-finale
- -: 115 - 77
Semi-final
- -: 127 - 76
Finale
- -: 117 - 85
Dream TEAM gained all its matches, with an average deviation of 43,8 points. The only team having carried out it during a few minutes was Croatia, finally, as well as Spain in hen phase (4-0 after some phases of play).
See too
- Team of the United States of basketball
- Team of the United States of female basketball
- the USA Basketball
- Dream, a page of homonymy,
References
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