Dont know if the US guys know this but all over the world, everybody was rooting for the dream team. It was really global and after those olympics, posters from the nba players appeared in our rooms. Truly a special moment in world sport history
@@ivanhorvat8403 Yugoslavia should have done what the USSR did and competed one last time. Smaller population than California, produced the best players per capita. With the Iraq War starting in 1990, the US was losing fans in general.
I was at their qualifier game in Portland against Panama. Won by 60. I was 14. Im also in the documentary with my family watching the team enter the team bus from their downtown hotel the same day. One of the best days of my life.
@@uluzistherealest And? I'm talking about Team USA It was much more interesting seeing the College and HS kids The 1992 team would have been just as good if they were all Amateurs
Robinson was always one of my very favorite players. Air Jordan was my top, but the Admiral was top 3 for sure. I loved his play PLUS his Christian attitude. So MANY true legends from that era. Truly basketball's golden age.
As an Aussie fan of all sports, this 92 Dream Team is the greatest team assembled in any sport, in history of sports. Their command and dominance to this day is unmatched 🎯
@@BIGJERSEY908 you couldn't be more wrong 🤣... the European teams back then were powerhouses in world basketball outside of usa... Croatia, serbia, Lithuania, Argentina, Russia were all world dominant teams. The reason why they didn't win is because this original Dream Team filled with 11 first ballot hall-of-famers were just so much comparatively better...
Without a doubt! You had MJ at the helm. Magic, Bird and Clyde the Glyde on cruise control. Not to mention Barkley, Pippen, Malone and the rest of the boys ready to annihilate the opposition. Of course... You had the GREATEST TEAM assembled! 🌏🏀🇺🇸
Larry was only early 30s same as Magic though..but since the game is so physical it does take a toll unlike today you can sit out 30 games and paying fans left out to dry after saving up thousand dollars
@xdome25 Larry had already ruined his back working on his farm at that point. You can actually see him laying on his stomach on the sidelines trying to take weight off his back. He would have had a way longer career if he had the doctors, nutritionists, sitting out time, that they have today. Dude's back would be completely fkd yet he would still play. That's also why his career was so short though.
It's one that you'd build on a video game to go 82-0 in the regular season. And then 98-0 to hoist the trophy. 98-1 if you practiced some load management, maybe
Would of been better if you trade out Stockton for Thomas and Laettner for O'Neal. That would of been a maximum Dream Team. The one we got was as well as it could be built, under the circumstances.
Dream team 3 would beat Dream 1. They have much better wingmen and much better bigs David Robinson Reggie Miller Scottie Pippen Charles Barkley Mitch Richmond Shaquille O'Neal Penny Hardaway Karl Malone Grant Hill Gary Payton Hakeem Olajuwon John Stockton
@@XDOMEGaming I know there are common players. But the added players to dream team 3 makes them better. You add Penny and Grant Hill before they got injured. Do you remember how good they were. Then you added Dream and Shaq. Not to mention Glove and Mitch Richmond.
Fun fact: The Olympic Committee told MJ that he had to wear Reebok uniform, even tho he was signed to Nike so he use the American flag to cover up the logo. As you can see in the clip 9:01
Agreed! They were never pushed to unleash their do-or-die mentality. That kind of mentality existed in spades among Jordan, Bird, and Magic. Those three would NEVER have let ANY team get close to beating them, ever.
One could make the argument that not having Isiah Thomas there actually helped the NBA in terms of popularity and fandom. Seeing the Dream Team all get along with one another made for good TV. Connected with the patriotism of American military and sport-culture. Maybe today's players gotta thank the Dream Team and MJ for the type of contracts they're able to secure now.
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Isiah Thomas was absolutely robbed. He was just as deserving to be on that team as ANYONE!! Out of Isiah, magic, Jordan, and bird. Isiah is the only one with a plus 500 record vs the other three. He beat all 3 of them multiple times in the late stage playoffs , when it mattered the most. They shouldn't have been able to take an accomplishment from a person when he absolutely deserved and earned it, when he did nothing wrong or illegal
@@B-H76 No one is arguing IT didn't deserve to be in the 1992 Dream Team, but these is REAL life and not a 2k game where you can put anyone and not worry about team CHEMISTRY.
Dream Team documentary from 2012 is really cool. Read the book too. Think about that team. Who was their weakest link? Christian Laettner? Then maybe Chris Mullin since he didn't make the top 50 all-time but he is a HoFer. Dream Team consisted of 11 HoFers, and 10 were first-ballot and top 50 all-time. That's 20% of the top 50 on one team. That's crazy. Never again will see ever see this happen for one team in any other sport. Compare to that 2008 Redeem Team. Among the top 75 (or 76) greats. From 2008's LeBron James Kobe Bryant Dwyane Wade Jason Kidd Chris Paul Carmelo Anthony Now look at 1992's Michael Jordan Magic Johnson Larry Bird Karl Malone Charles Barkley David Robinson Scottie Pippen Clyde Drexler Patrick Ewing John Stockton Redeem Team had guys like Deron Williams, Michael Redd, Tayshaun Prince, and Carlos Boozer who I don't believe will make the HoF. Chris Mullin is the second weakest link on Dream Team and he's greater than all those guys. BTW, I love Mullin's dry humor here. You can make a case all 10 of those first-ballot HoFers from 1992 are still top 50 all-time. While 2008, I don't believe Melo is top 50. Dwight was a huge omission from the top 75. I wish they had cameras following Larry Bird and Patrick Ewing who were inseparable in Barcelona and who both would get drunk most of the time. They were The Larry & Harry Show. The unlikeliest friendship like Skip Bayless and Lil Wayne.
I think the only really notable thing about the Redeem Team is that they ended th US' drought of gold medals from 2002-2006. I'd rather have the 2012 team over 2008. If you are going to compare any squad's star power to the 1992 team, it should be the 2012 team.
No it isn't. It just shows how big of bullies they each were. Kukoc had absolutely NO chance in that game regardless. I get not letting him look like a star but the rest was overkill.
@@r.j.w7924 You are young from this "Cup Cake" Era. Absolutely not bullies. Jordan and Pippen wanted to send a message to Chicago management and they did, Kukoc still signed with Chicago won 3 rings.
@@SuperVeep I'm 49 man don't lump me in with these crybabies today. Fact is Kukoc had NOTHING to do with Pippen's contract situation. Pippen was a complete idiot who couldn't negotiate and wouldn't play hardball with the Jerrys and signed a crap deal that he was WARNED against signing. Instead of dealing with Krause directly he and Michael took it out on a kid that literally had ZERO to do with it. And what message did they send exactly? Krause STILL signed Kukoc and they never reworked Scottie's deal and let someone else overpay him when it was time.
More than 3, actually! Jordan, Pippen, Malone, Bird, Barkley, and Magic did not want him on the team! But, for some odd reason, Jordan is the only one that get's a bad rap for it.
Imagine if they had let pros play before, during the era with Elgin Baylor, Wilt, Oscar Robertson, jerry west, john Havlecik, kareem, probably more names I'm forgetting.
Dream team 3 would beat Dream 1. They have much better wingmen and much better bigs David Robinson Reggie Miller Scottie Pippen Charles Barkley Mitch Richmond Shaquille O'Neal Penny Hardaway Karl Malone Grant Hill Gary Payton Hakeem Olajuwon John Stockton
Yea if you look back now . but the assistant was coach K of course Laettners coach at Duke . Also Laettner was coming off arguably the best year of college player has ever had.
There are a handful of reasons why I wish Shaq made the team ahead of Laettner, but let's not forget how much more accomplished Laettner was than Shaq at that point.
I can only imagine those scrimmage games at practice. Between the talent, basketball iq and competitiveness those games had to be incredible to see. Also while everyone says it was Jordan that kept Isiah off the team, I have a feeling there were more voices against Isiah being on vs those for him being on.
I admit I’m a little biased, having grown up throughout the 80’s and 90’s and really been into basketball. But the 1992 Dream Team really was THE story that summer at the Olympics. I’ll never forget it. It was very accurate to say that it was like pitting a sheep against a lion with all of those other teams. As this report said, the other teams’ players were many times more interested with getting autographs from the Dream Team players than playing. But it was really no contest in the games themselves. In that regard I suppose it was boring. But on the other hand, it was really entertaining, because it was like watching a slam dunk contest, or the Harlem Globetrotters with the show of dominance put on. I feel like the rest of the world has caught up a lot as basketball goes today. And while we have huge NBA stars today, I just don’t feel like the personalities and the over the top fandom are there like they were in the 80’s and 90’s. Those decades, mainly spurred on by Magic, Bird, and Jordan, among others along the way, really sent NBA coverage on TV and fandom through the roof. It was just an incredibly exciting time to be a fan.
How come every time we talk about the dream team, we have to throw a pity party for Isaiah Thomas? The guy chose to be a part of the Piston's reputation, even reveled in it. Now 30 years later we have to mention him so he doesn't keep crying about it on TV.
Because he deserved to be on the team and was literally conspired against to keep him off. He was the ONLY other NBA champion and Finals MVP from that era and beat ALL the other guys on the team but somehow wasn't on it? It should be mentioned every time that team is discussed.
Kukoc scored 17 and played a very good game in the final. Pippen and Jordan were impressed by his response. But still US media only ever reminisce about the 4 point game. Better suits the narrative , I gues?
they were focused on their first game against Kukoc. For the finals petty things like that arent MJ/Pipp's problems anymore they already showed what they needed to show the Bulls Mngt
Why do they always being up the Tony Kukoc shutdown and not mention his second game vs the Dream Team? He got his second highest output of the games and that’s quite a feat considering the talent gap.
Dream team 3 would beat Dream 1. They have much better wingmen and much better bigs David Robinson Reggie Miller Scottie Pippen Charles Barkley Mitch Richmond Shaquille O'Neal Penny Hardaway Karl Malone Grant Hill Gary Payton Hakeem Olajuwon John Stockton
@@georgekouts laugh all you want redeem team better other than Jordan no one on that team better than lebron or Kobe I’m gone say wade also bird and magic was washed
Surprised she didn’t start by telling us that the dream team are bad people and then bring up any issues in their past even if they didn’t actually get in trouble for said issues
It is weird having the coach but not a single of his players...its like if Phil Jackson was the coach but not having Shaq, Kobe, MJ or scottie on the team. But Isaiah only had himself and Bill lambeer to blame
Did isiah deserve to be there? Yes. Did stockton deserve to be there? Yes! Somebody had to be left out. Don't look at their whole career. I'd take stockton's 17 ppg 14 apg on 50% over isiah's 16 ppg 9 apg on 43% in 91 And stockton's 16 ppg 14 ppg on 48% over isiah's 19 ppg 7 apg on 44% in 92
The Dream Team is very likely a HUGE reason there are so many players from around the world in today's NBA. And THAT is a legacy no other US Olympic basketball team can/will have.
Put some respect on Toni Kukoč’s name he got 16 points 9 assists in the finals…both Scottie and Jordan had positive things to say about him after that game smh
It was so cool growing up to have been a part of watching this exciting chapter in sports history. I remember waiting for months in advance in early 1992 for the first game to get underway. My brother and I even had the poster in our room, and I’d love to know where it now is.
Any team with Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain would be the greatest team ever. Their defense alone would shut down everyone. With Russell rebounding and Wilt scoring it would be game over for every other team.
I alwasy said 2-Time College Player of The Year and National Champion Christian Laetner got to ride shotgun on The Greatest Team ever assembled and I loved every minute of it.
To this day, even with all the scoring and evolution of players and athletes, this '92 team is still the best and most dominating EVER assembled. And who led it? None other than the G.O.A.T himself Mj! As great as lebron has been, he's not at this level of greatness. Lebron's greatest strength is his consistency and longevity.
Jordan led the 84 olympic team to a gold, LBJ failed to deliver the same during 2004 olympics and 2006 fiba thats why they had to get Kobe to show who really is the better player
@xdome25 MJ led '84 and '92 smfh 🤦♂️. Could care less about lebron, lol or kobe on this topic. Not lbj or kobe redeem team EVER came close to the dominance of this dream team.
Lebron is good with bunch of holes in his career, no where near the greats of past. 92 Dream Team I think was not lead by any player, led by their Coach Chuck Daly.
Malika: The 92' Olympics team dominated the competition to win the gold medal, this came just a few months after Magic Johnson announced his retirement due to his career ending HIV diagnosis.
11 HOF players is just mind blowing. Starters and bench players were HOF except 1 college player. Some one on comment section on youtube said, 92 Dream Team were not allowed to play 100% just 50% - 60%.
In australia, the dream team gained coverage on our tvs. Normally the aussie media shows aussies at the games and a few minutes of other countries not involving australia. That dream team made it to our tvs, they were showing most of the games. I hope u americans really have a grasp on the magnitude of what this team did globaly. No other US team will ever come close.
They keep saying the Dream Team lost to the Select Team but he actually cut the scrimmage short before it was over so there was no way they could make a comeback (although they were not playing great at that point). Also, one player that would have messed up Daly's plan is Jordan so he couldn't play him much at all. That was very smart on his part.
@@jtremaine23 Whatever makes you feel good. Even the dream team ain't making that excuse. A well executed plan by C Daily to make Even Jordan fall in line. That's the fact.
@@younglove3362 It doesn't make me feel good or bad. It just is. The DT isn't making any excuses because they probably feel they shouldn't have been down in the 1st place which is understandable. But Daly didn't make MJ fall in line as he didn't need to. He sure didn't make him fall in line when MJ saw Kukoc lol.
@jtremaine23 That's the reason they kept it secret for multiple years and didn't tell it until later. Because of delusional irrational people like you searching for excuses to desperately try and make it seem like it's not as bad as it seems. 🙄
@@mzilber1She Is Terrible At Her Job & You Probably Haven't Seen How She Treats Her Fellow Black Peers Like When That Whole Celtics & Udoka Story Was Going On & How She Tried To Disrespect Stephen A Smith On His Own Show First Take.
The 1992 U.S. Olympic Dream Team is the best basketball 🏀 team ever assembled to play in the Olympics 🏀🥇🇺🇲👍❣️ My personal favorite player got to play in Barcelona, Spain, Ervin "Magic " Johnson 🏀🥇🇺🇲👍💛💜
With all the undeniable greatness of the Dream Team, they still only managed the SECOND highest average margin of victories for an Olympics. 1956 - and the team led by Bill Russell - was even MORE dominant.
As a long time Detroit Pistons fan I couldnt care less about Zeek not being a part of The Dream Team. It is what it is and The Dream Team is who they are and that's facts🔥
It speaks to Isiah's own greatness that whenever they talk about the 92 Dream Team, he has to be mentioned as the glaring omission. A lot of people weren't selected for that team, so why single him out?
A couple years later, Toni was was dominate that year MJ retired, and a key player in those last 3 Bulls championships. Meanwhile, Isiah Thomas is still mad and better to this day.
The 92 Dream Team is still the greatest team ever. No other team in the history of any sports assembled so many top 25 legends who dominated their respective games. The only weakness was Christian Laettner; Isiah Thomas should have had that roster spot.
Dream team 3 would beat Dream 1. They have much better wingmen and much better bigs David Robinson Reggie Miller Scottie Pippen Charles Barkley Mitch Richmond Shaquille O'Neal Penny Hardaway Karl Malone Grant Hill Gary Payton Hakeem Olajuwon John Stockton
@@BIGJERSEY908 stop the cap. Players right now load managing like little babies and fragile as a glass. Flopping like little girls and crying for foul.
@@BIGJERSEY908 In 2012, your starting center was Tyson Chandler... All 8.2 career ppg Tyson Chandler. Thats you got against David Robinson and Ewing. The same david robinson who put up 71 points in a game in 94. Thats also your rim protector against MJ. Lol
Thomas was not a “glaring” omission, just an omission. Johnson said pretty much all the players didn’t want to have Isiah on the team. No matter what, he wasn’t missed
Dont know if the US guys know this but all over the world, everybody was rooting for the dream team. It was really global and after those olympics, posters from the nba players appeared in our rooms. Truly a special moment in world sport history
I can tell you right now that Croatia did *not* in fact root for the Dream Team. :))
@@ivanhorvat8403 😅
in Serbian we dont root vor any Team USA
@@ivanhorvat8403 Yugoslavia should have done what the USSR did and competed one last time. Smaller population than California, produced the best players per capita. With the Iraq War starting in 1990, the US was losing fans in general.
@@jimstevenson424 There was no Yugoslavia in 1992.
I was at their qualifier game in Portland against Panama. Won by 60. I was 14. Im also in the documentary with my family watching the team enter the team bus from their downtown hotel the same day. One of the best days of my life.
yea sure buddy and i'm in moon right now
Thats awesome. I would have loved to experience that.
@@gevorkgkIt was so cool to experience.
@@markozbunjol625jealousy would get you nowhere dude. Out of all the players on that team, nobody knew who Christian Lattner or John Stockton was.
@@cliffishot2defEverone new who both of those players were
I smiled ear to ear from the beginning to the end of the video.
Can't get enough of the 1992 Men's Olympic basketball team.
I hate that they let pros in the Olympics
@@EricTheActor805pros were already in the Olympics, just not American pros.
@@uluzistherealest
And?
I'm talking about Team USA
It was much more interesting seeing the College and HS kids
The 1992 team would have been just as good if they were all Amateurs
@@EricTheActor805This is so silly. The Olympics is the biggest sporting event in the world and should feature the best of the best a country has.
@@xevious1538
Why don't pro boxers compete?
It's an amateur sporting event, it should feature amateurs
I remember being a little kid and so excited that David Robinson was on the team. I'm from San Antonio. This was a really special era in basketball.
Robinson was always one of my very favorite players.
Air Jordan was my top, but the Admiral was top 3 for sure. I loved his play PLUS his Christian attitude.
So MANY true legends from that era.
Truly basketball's golden age.
As an Aussie fan of all sports, this 92 Dream Team is the greatest team assembled in any sport, in history of sports. Their command and dominance to this day is unmatched 🎯
They played fans. Teams that wanted pics after they lost by 50. Not the greatest at all
@@BIGJERSEY908 you couldn't be more wrong 🤣... the European teams back then were powerhouses in world basketball outside of usa... Croatia, serbia, Lithuania, Argentina, Russia were all world dominant teams. The reason why they didn't win is because this original Dream Team filled with 11 first ballot hall-of-famers were just so much comparatively better...
@ahmadfaisal6267 that was the 80s clown boy. Go do research.
@@BIGJERSEY908 what was the 80's?
@@ahmadfaisal6267 you right. The 70s lol when did any of those teams win any tournaments?
Without a doubt! You had MJ at the helm. Magic, Bird and Clyde the Glyde on cruise control. Not to mention Barkley, Pippen, Malone and the rest of the boys ready to annihilate the opposition. Of course... You had the GREATEST TEAM assembled! 🌏🏀🇺🇸
Imagine if they had Larry and Magic in their prime and not at the end of their careers
Magic was still considered in his prime at the time the whole HIV thing is what made him retire early than he wanted.
Larry was only early 30s same as Magic though..but since the game is so physical it does take a toll unlike today you can sit out 30 games and paying fans left out to dry after saving up thousand dollars
@@XDOMEGaming😅
@xdome25 Larry had already ruined his back working on his farm at that point. You can actually see him laying on his stomach on the sidelines trying to take weight off his back. He would have had a way longer career if he had the doctors, nutritionists, sitting out time, that they have today. Dude's back would be completely fkd yet he would still play. That's also why his career was so short though.
Burd was 36 with an injured back at that point
This roster is sick. The original cheat code for gold 🥇
It's one that you'd build on a video game to go 82-0 in the regular season. And then 98-0 to hoist the trophy. 98-1 if you practiced some load management, maybe
Would of been better if you trade out Stockton for Thomas and Laettner for O'Neal. That would of been a maximum Dream Team. The one we got was as well as it could be built, under the circumstances.
The 1992 Dream Team The Greatest Team Ever💯👍
Dream team 3 would beat Dream 1. They have much better wingmen and much better bigs
David Robinson
Reggie Miller
Scottie Pippen
Charles Barkley
Mitch Richmond
Shaquille O'Neal
Penny Hardaway
Karl Malone
Grant Hill
Gary Payton
Hakeem Olajuwon
John Stockton
@@B-H76 i said what I said thank you very much nice try tho😂
@@B-H76 wth are u saying...malone,stockton,barkely,pippen and robinson already in the original DreamTeam lol
@@XDOMEGaming I know there are common players. But the added players to dream team 3 makes them better. You add Penny and Grant Hill before they got injured. Do you remember how good they were. Then you added Dream and Shaq. Not to mention Glove and Mitch Richmond.
@@B-H76stop it 😂
Kids will never know how Barkley was the best of that 92 dream team, RESPECT!
Nope Christian was
Best of what ?
For everyone else it was an exhibition for Barkley it was life or death.
Barkley who?
Statistically he was. But according to Chuck Daly, "Pippen was the best player on that team.”
I’ll never forget setting up lawn chairs in the living room with my brother pretending we were in Spain watching these legends.
Cap
Fun fact: The Olympic Committee told MJ that he had to wear Reebok uniform, even tho he was signed to Nike so he use the American flag to cover up the logo. As you can see in the clip 9:01
Yep covered it up with the flag
And 3 billion dollars later I don't blame him ONE bit lol.
*He didn’t cover the Champions uniform logo…I can’t remember but I would guess it was the track jacket with the non Nike logo maybe Reebok 😂
@BlackSkins-il7ch He use the USA flag to cover the addias logo
Chuck Daly was a genius and a master at managing superstar athletes with outsized egos.
All facts...Daley was a master manipulator.
Revisiting this is always welcome, GOAT team. I just wish they could have played a group good enough to push them to their full potential .
Agreed! They were never pushed to unleash their do-or-die mentality. That kind of mentality existed in spades among Jordan, Bird, and Magic.
Those three would NEVER have let ANY team get close to beating them, ever.
One could make the argument that not having Isiah Thomas there actually helped the NBA in terms of popularity and fandom. Seeing the Dream Team all get along with one another made for good TV. Connected with the patriotism of American military and sport-culture. Maybe today's players gotta thank the Dream Team and MJ for the type of contracts they're able to secure now.
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Thomas would have been locked room trouble
Isiah Thomas was absolutely robbed. He was just as deserving to be on that team as ANYONE!! Out of Isiah, magic, Jordan, and bird. Isiah is the only one with a plus 500 record vs the other three. He beat all 3 of them multiple times in the late stage playoffs , when it mattered the most. They shouldn't have been able to take an accomplishment from a person when he absolutely deserved and earned it, when he did nothing wrong or illegal
@@B-H76 No one is arguing IT didn't deserve to be in the 1992 Dream Team, but these is REAL life and not a 2k game where you can put anyone and not worry about team CHEMISTRY.
@@kamotetops1572"not a 2k game." LOL, that's a great line. Well said.
Dream Team documentary from 2012 is really cool. Read the book too. Think about that team. Who was their weakest link? Christian Laettner? Then maybe Chris Mullin since he didn't make the top 50 all-time but he is a HoFer.
Dream Team consisted of 11 HoFers, and 10 were first-ballot and top 50 all-time. That's 20% of the top 50 on one team. That's crazy. Never again will see ever see this happen for one team in any other sport.
Compare to that 2008 Redeem Team. Among the top 75 (or 76) greats.
From 2008's
LeBron James
Kobe Bryant
Dwyane Wade
Jason Kidd
Chris Paul
Carmelo Anthony
Now look at 1992's
Michael Jordan
Magic Johnson
Larry Bird
Karl Malone
Charles Barkley
David Robinson
Scottie Pippen
Clyde Drexler
Patrick Ewing
John Stockton
Redeem Team had guys like Deron Williams, Michael Redd, Tayshaun Prince, and Carlos Boozer who I don't believe will make the HoF. Chris Mullin is the second weakest link on Dream Team and he's greater than all those guys. BTW, I love Mullin's dry humor here.
You can make a case all 10 of those first-ballot HoFers from 1992 are still top 50 all-time. While 2008, I don't believe Melo is top 50. Dwight was a huge omission from the top 75.
I wish they had cameras following Larry Bird and Patrick Ewing who were inseparable in Barcelona and who both would get drunk most of the time. They were The Larry & Harry Show. The unlikeliest friendship like Skip Bayless and Lil Wayne.
Imagine if they picked shaq instead of Christian. Not that Christian wasn't a good choice he was but that team with shaq , dam!
I can't believe Mullin didn't make top 50... dude was really good.
I think the only really notable thing about the Redeem Team is that they ended th US' drought of gold medals from 2002-2006. I'd rather have the 2012 team over 2008. If you are going to compare any squad's star power to the 1992 team, it should be the 2012 team.
2012 team would beat all of them
2012 team would beat all of them
The greatest display of dominance in sports history. No one person or team will ever replicate the showcase of talent these guys gave us that summer.
That Jordan and Pippen locking up Kukoc is pure fire!
No it isn't. It just shows how big of bullies they each were. Kukoc had absolutely NO chance in that game regardless. I get not letting him look like a star but the rest was overkill.
@@r.j.w7924 You are young from this "Cup Cake" Era. Absolutely not bullies. Jordan and Pippen wanted to send a message to Chicago management and they did, Kukoc still signed with Chicago won 3 rings.
@@SuperVeep I'm 49 man don't lump me in with these crybabies today. Fact is Kukoc had NOTHING to do with Pippen's contract situation. Pippen was a complete idiot who couldn't negotiate and wouldn't play hardball with the Jerrys and signed a crap deal that he was WARNED against signing. Instead of dealing with Krause directly he and Michael took it out on a kid that literally had ZERO to do with it. And what message did they send exactly? Krause STILL signed Kukoc and they never reworked Scottie's deal and let someone else overpay him when it was time.
@@r.j.w7924 Sorry I will not lump you into these cry babies. I know Pippen was at fault for his terrible contract with Chicago.
He wasn’t the only one that didn’t want him!!! He rubbed 3 people wrong on that team!!!
More than 3, actually! Jordan, Pippen, Malone, Bird, Barkley, and Magic did not want him on the team! But, for some odd reason, Jordan is the only one that get's a bad rap for it.
CORRECT! WELL SAID!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHARING THAT!!!!
@@georgekoutsBecause Jordan calls the shots
Exactly...magic Michael bird pippen john stockton... thats 5 people
@@georgekouts Clyde didn't like him either
The 1992 Dream Team was the best SPORTS team ever assembled.
Imagine if they had let pros play before, during the era with Elgin Baylor, Wilt, Oscar Robertson, jerry west, john Havlecik, kareem, probably more names I'm forgetting.
Dr. J.
If you don’t have WNC on your team , you don’t have a greatest team of all time!
@@morrisparrish76 WNC? Who is that?
@@joshuaburba1048Wilt Norm Chamberlain
@@joshuaburba1048 aba baby! George McGinnis
I totally loved that team. ❤❤❤❤❤.
that is without a doubt the best team ever assembled 🏀🏀🥇🏆 there will NEVER be another team like that
Dream team 3 would beat Dream 1. They have much better wingmen and much better bigs
David Robinson
Reggie Miller
Scottie Pippen
Charles Barkley
Mitch Richmond
Shaquille O'Neal
Penny Hardaway
Karl Malone
Grant Hill
Gary Payton
Hakeem Olajuwon
John Stockton
@@B-H76you need attention that bad get a puppy
@@robglobal1 go away. Grown folks talking!
@BH-qh3re do you think your amusing? Stop being a loser you're making yourself look pathetic.
Shaq should've been there instead of Laettner. But we know the deal
Yea if you look back now . but the assistant was coach K of course Laettners coach at Duke . Also Laettner was coming off arguably the best year of college player has ever had.
You don't need 3 centers. They already got Ewing and Robinson.
No other player was as impressive in 4 straight final fours. Most points, rebounds, in final four stats combined.
@Jay-sn5uz didnt realize she was a male player.
There are a handful of reasons why I wish Shaq made the team ahead of Laettner, but let's not forget how much more accomplished Laettner was than Shaq at that point.
Imagine having Magic, Bird, Jordan, Pippen, Barkley, etc on one team and having to coach them 😂😂😂
They won.
Bird and magic were all but done at that time
coaching lol they were playing the weakest international teams I have ever seen they just had to show up[ and collect the medals.
I can only imagine those scrimmage games at practice. Between the talent, basketball iq and competitiveness those games had to be incredible to see.
Also while everyone says it was Jordan that kept Isiah off the team, I have a feeling there were more voices against Isiah being on vs those for him being on.
also, Coach Daly is the biggest influencer in this team.
more content from the 90s please. Best Basketball-Era ever!
I wish we could go back and just rewatch live this team....
That Panama was as legendary as the Angola line by the Chuckster 😂😅
Weak
I admit I’m a little biased, having grown up throughout the 80’s and 90’s and really been into basketball. But the 1992 Dream Team really was THE story that summer at the Olympics. I’ll never forget it. It was very accurate to say that it was like pitting a sheep against a lion with all of those other teams. As this report said, the other teams’ players were many times more interested with getting autographs from the Dream Team players than playing. But it was really no contest in the games themselves. In that regard I suppose it was boring. But on the other hand, it was really entertaining, because it was like watching a slam dunk contest, or the Harlem Globetrotters with the show of dominance put on. I feel like the rest of the world has caught up a lot as basketball goes today. And while we have huge NBA stars today, I just don’t feel like the personalities and the over the top fandom are there like they were in the 80’s and 90’s. Those decades, mainly spurred on by Magic, Bird, and Jordan, among others along the way, really sent NBA coverage on TV and fandom through the roof. It was just an incredibly exciting time to be a fan.
How come every time we talk about the dream team, we have to throw a pity party for Isaiah Thomas? The guy chose to be a part of the Piston's reputation, even reveled in it. Now 30 years later we have to mention him so he doesn't keep crying about it on TV.
Because he deserved to be on the team and was literally conspired against to keep him off. He was the ONLY other NBA champion and Finals MVP from that era and beat ALL the other guys on the team but somehow wasn't on it? It should be mentioned every time that team is discussed.
The Greatest Team ever Assembled
Kukoc scored 17 and played a very good game in the final. Pippen and Jordan were impressed by his response. But still US media only ever reminisce about the 4 point game. Better suits the narrative , I gues?
they were focused on their first game against Kukoc. For the finals petty things like that arent MJ/Pipp's problems anymore they already showed what they needed to show the Bulls Mngt
Why do they always being up the Tony Kukoc shutdown and not mention his second game vs the Dream Team? He got his second highest output of the games and that’s quite a feat considering the talent gap.
The point was proven on the first matchup. And the reason behind the point is why. It's good he did better the second time around. Didn't matter much
Because the dream team is over rated.
I will use part of Magic’s words to share my comment here: “NO QUESTION ABOUT IT” THAT THAT WAS THE BEST TEAM EVER ASSEMBLED!
Dream team 3 would beat Dream 1. They have much better wingmen and much better bigs
David Robinson
Reggie Miller
Scottie Pippen
Charles Barkley
Mitch Richmond
Shaquille O'Neal
Penny Hardaway
Karl Malone
Grant Hill
Gary Payton
Hakeem Olajuwon
John Stockton
Ain’t nobody f*cking with the 92 dream team
Redeem team better
@@keithjupiter 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@georgekouts laugh all you want redeem team better other than Jordan no one on that team better than lebron or Kobe I’m gone say wade also bird and magic was washed
@@keithjupiter There is no debating with a casual moron! The only left to do is laugh at their stupidity!🤣🤣🤣🤣
@keithjupiter dream team all day, every game they played against teams, it was almost a 52 point or more blowout
Absolutely the greatest team ever assembled!!
Nope 2000
2008
Surprised she didn’t start by telling us that the dream team are bad people and then bring up any issues in their past even if they didn’t actually get in trouble for said issues
It is weird having the coach but not a single of his players...its like if Phil Jackson was the coach but not having Shaq, Kobe, MJ or scottie on the team. But Isaiah only had himself and Bill lambeer to blame
I love throwbacks 💯
Did isiah deserve to be there? Yes.
Did stockton deserve to be there? Yes!
Somebody had to be left out.
Don't look at their whole career.
I'd take stockton's 17 ppg 14 apg on 50% over isiah's 16 ppg 9 apg on 43% in 91
And stockton's 16 ppg 14 ppg on 48% over isiah's 19 ppg 7 apg on 44% in 92
Isiah deserved to be there over Stockton. Stop ✋️
The Dream Team is very likely a HUGE reason there are so many players from around the world in today's NBA.
And THAT is a legacy no other US Olympic basketball team can/will have.
Put some respect on Toni Kukoč’s name he got 16 points 9 assists in the finals…both Scottie and Jordan had positive things to say about him after that game smh
Bulls was my favorite team as a kid and i like kukoc more than pippen
Lets not forget how Phil Jackson called the last play for toni kukoc instead of pippen 😅
The best team in any sport ever
The only thing missing is the practice scrimmage of the Dream Team... the public wants it!
It was so cool growing up to have been a part of watching this exciting chapter in sports history. I remember waiting for months in advance in early 1992 for the first game to get underway.
My brother and I even had the poster in our room, and I’d love to know where it now is.
They were unstoppable
I can watch this over and over again
Any team with Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain would be the greatest team ever. Their defense alone would shut down everyone. With Russell rebounding and Wilt scoring it would be game over for every other team.
I alwasy said 2-Time College Player of The Year and National Champion Christian Laetner got to ride shotgun on The Greatest Team ever assembled and I loved every minute of it.
Simply the Greatest team ever assembled!
To this day, even with all the scoring and evolution of players and athletes, this '92 team is still the best and most dominating EVER assembled. And who led it? None other than the G.O.A.T himself Mj! As great as lebron has been, he's not at this level of greatness. Lebron's greatest strength is his consistency and longevity.
Jordan led the 84 olympic team to a gold, LBJ failed to deliver the same during 2004 olympics and 2006 fiba thats why they had to get Kobe to show who really is the better player
@xdome25 MJ led '84 and '92 smfh 🤦♂️. Could care less about lebron, lol or kobe on this topic. Not lbj or kobe redeem team EVER came close to the dominance of this dream team.
Lebron is good with bunch of holes in his career, no where near the greats of past. 92 Dream Team I think was not lead by any player, led by their Coach Chuck Daly.
Malika: The 92' Olympics team dominated the competition to win the gold medal, this came just a few months after Magic Johnson announced his retirement due to his career ending HIV diagnosis.
Magic pulled out the classic “They don’t love you like Kobe” 😂😂
The greatest 💯
11 HOF players is just mind blowing. Starters and bench players were HOF except 1 college player. Some one on comment section on youtube said, 92 Dream Team were not allowed to play 100% just 50% - 60%.
i remember the first game the dream team played, my mom sent to the store to get something. the streets were empty. EVERYONE was watching.
Malika andrews is the most annoying broadcaster on ESPN
Then don't watch you fire station baby.
@@TuckerCarlson-wi7xs lmao @ fire station baby 🔥
@Jay-sn5uzcap
Dream Team ‘92 was the best NBA advertisement ever.
NBA owed that Dream Team for the global audience
The Greatest team of all time !
Nope 2000 and 2004 were
This Is the greatest team of all time in history of NBA the dream team
In australia, the dream team gained coverage on our tvs. Normally the aussie media shows aussies at the games and a few minutes of other countries not involving australia. That dream team made it to our tvs, they were showing most of the games. I hope u americans really have a grasp on the magnitude of what this team did globaly. No other US team will ever come close.
as a croatian , we were so so proud of being in the final ... no team like Dream team 1992 😄
I remember Spain and Croatia as the ones that put up a proper fight.
They keep saying the Dream Team lost to the Select Team but he actually cut the scrimmage short before it was over so there was no way they could make a comeback (although they were not playing great at that point). Also, one player that would have messed up Daly's plan is Jordan so he couldn't play him much at all. That was very smart on his part.
Anyone desperate way to make the dream team not look bad. Face it, they lost. No excuses.
@@younglove3362 No excuses…only the truth.
@@jtremaine23
Whatever makes you feel good. Even the dream team ain't making that excuse. A well executed plan by C Daily to make Even Jordan fall in line. That's the fact.
@@younglove3362 It doesn't make me feel good or bad. It just is. The DT isn't making any excuses because they probably feel they shouldn't have been down in the 1st place which is understandable. But Daly didn't make MJ fall in line as he didn't need to. He sure didn't make him fall in line when MJ saw Kukoc lol.
@jtremaine23
That's the reason they kept it secret for multiple years and didn't tell it until later. Because of delusional irrational people like you searching for excuses to desperately try and make it seem like it's not as bad as it seems. 🙄
How did malika make the cut over Marc Jackson?
why you hating on her?
@@mzilber1 black men dont like her shes a sell out
Easy, they never wanted Jackson to vote for MVP ever again
@@mzilber1She Is Terrible At Her Job & You Probably Haven't Seen How She Treats Her Fellow Black Peers Like When That Whole Celtics & Udoka Story Was Going On & How She Tried To Disrespect Stephen A Smith On His Own Show First Take.
@@mzilber1she hates black men
The 1992 U.S. Olympic Dream Team is the best basketball 🏀 team ever assembled to play in the Olympics 🏀🥇🇺🇲👍❣️ My personal favorite player got to play in Barcelona, Spain, Ervin "Magic " Johnson 🏀🥇🇺🇲👍💛💜
Barkley always had a joke ready
Bird magic and his airnes is the best trio of all time if this 3 join together in one team maybe 12 ring they will get to each other
The Dream Team was literally the equivalent to watching The Avengers on a sports stage.
This is the Dream Team!!!
With all the undeniable greatness of the Dream Team, they still only managed the SECOND highest average margin of victories for an Olympics.
1956 - and the team led by Bill Russell - was even MORE dominant.
🐐 team....👍🏀🇬🇧
The only time we were disappointed was when the Olympics ended and they went their separate ways! With the Gold Medal of course!
Woke up at dawn probably 2 am consistently to watch the game live on tv due to time differences.
As a long time Detroit Pistons fan I couldnt care less about Zeek not being a part of The Dream Team. It is what it is and The Dream Team is who they are and that's facts🔥
It speaks to Isiah's own greatness that whenever they talk about the 92 Dream Team, he has to be mentioned as the glaring omission. A lot of people weren't selected for that team, so why single him out?
A couple years later, Toni was was dominate that year MJ retired, and a key player in those last 3 Bulls championships. Meanwhile, Isiah Thomas is still mad and better to this day.
Love that even blowing teams out, Jordan still found a way to make it personal (Kukoc)
This is truly the best ever.
He str8 called MJ a liar 😂 like he lied to him personally
What's crazy is that they didn't need to redeem themselves
What's crazy is the played fans lol
@@BIGJERSEY908No they didn't they played a warm up game against young NBA players, you troll.
@truthserum6233 yes they did weirdo dudes were all taking pics shut up
The 92 Dream Team is still the greatest team ever.
No other team in the history of any sports assembled so many top 25 legends who dominated their respective games.
The only weakness was Christian Laettner; Isiah Thomas should have had that roster spot.
Lol 2012 has more and how can you be the best if you played fans 😂😂. Dudes were taking pics and smiling after getting beat by 50
Dream team 3 would beat Dream 1. They have much better wingmen and much better bigs
David Robinson
Reggie Miller
Scottie Pippen
Charles Barkley
Mitch Richmond
Shaquille O'Neal
Penny Hardaway
Karl Malone
Grant Hill
Gary Payton
Hakeem Olajuwon
John Stockton
@@BIGJERSEY908 stop the cap. Players right now load managing like little babies and fragile as a glass. Flopping like little girls and crying for foul.
@@BIGJERSEY908 In 2012, your starting center was Tyson Chandler... All 8.2 career ppg Tyson Chandler. Thats you got against David Robinson and Ewing. The same david robinson who put up 71 points in a game in 94. Thats also your rim protector against MJ. Lol
I hope all those jerseys made it to a museum for people to enjoy in person.
Remember the toughest match prior to Barcelona Olympics, they played in Monaco in practice , against each other
You forgot their scrimmage against college players at their training camp before they went to Portland for the Olympic qualifier.
2012 dream team would squash this team
Истинная команда мечты. И огромный талант тренеров, чтобы уравновесить индивидуальность каждого.
Came here for Dream Team, saw Malika thumbs down exit!
For those who don't know, Barkley was the best player for that dream team on that olympics.
That dream team has no competition at that time.. at this time European and South American was just catch up the game..😊
Still blaming MJ for Thomas not being there. At least half the team despised him. Incredible.
Sir Charles was underated😮
My dream team
Can’t stand Malika
Hate her
Lol thomas still crying til this day😂😂😂
Was suprised Malika Andrews didnt mentiomed anything about Karl P. Malone
I'm not
唯一的 Dream Team💯💯❤
Only 1 dream team - nobody touches them
MJordan kept more than half of this team from winning an NBA Championship
Thomas was not a “glaring” omission, just an omission. Johnson said pretty much all the players didn’t want to have Isiah on the team. No matter what, he wasn’t missed
Barkley was playing as well as anyone at that time and on that team.