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Dream Team

The media coined the term dream team to describe the U.S. Olympic men’s basketball team that won a gold medal at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. This was the first year in which professional players were allowed to represent their countries in the Olympic games. This clearly gave the U.S. an advantage in the games, with a whopping 117-85 win over Croatia in the gold medal game.

This was arguably one of the most talented line-ups in any sport. The dream team's roster read like a who's who of modern NBA greats. It consisted of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Charles Barkley, David Robinson, Patrick Ewing, Karl Malone, Scottie Pippen, Chris Mullin, Clyde Drexler, John Stockton, and (college, and later NBA, stand-out) Christian Laettner.

The term dream team has been used to describe other teams but none epitomized the phrase like that one. That team may have done more for basketball on the International level than anything else.

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