1992 US Olympic "Dream" Team's Basketball Hall of Fame Enshrinement Speech 

That's funny good on you.

I T Hall a Farmers

A goat farm !!! 😂👍🏆

There’s no Mj without pippen and there isn’t enough greatness if Magic was without bird

underrated

Avengers is bad

@@therock-cs7sp no u

AJN310 ikr

no

@MANCHESTER UNITED i know soccer is the biggest, but there are only 234 countries and dependencies combined, and to consider dozens of those countries are purely island chains or nations with an area of less than 1000 km^2, it will be safer to say that soccer is massive in roughly 3/4ths of the world

you got that right!

Word!

The young guys today, while they keep getting told just how important Magic and Larry were to the resurgence of basketball in the '80's, really have no idea. When the Lakers and the Celtics were scheduled for a game, there were days and days and days of coverage before the game was even played, and once game time came around, but cities were essentially shut down for those few hours. It was something you just had to experience to even begin to believe.

@@juniorjohnson9509 Magic and Bird carried the torch started by Wilt and Russell. MJ carried it all the way to global fame.

Amen

You're absolutely right.... Good evening Dana how are you doing over there hope you're having a wonderful day it's a lovely day that the lord has made

@@dennisraymond2540 wtf

Chris Basdeo muscle memory, he was about to set a pick on who ever was closest to him 😂😂😂😂

@@Wtnwdl a dirty pick at that

Definitely one of most classiest teammate duos in the history of sports

Looking for the pick and roll

Scott Burns classy is not the word i would use to describe karl malone

Technically he was the best player since he was averaging the most points and playing the most minutes...

And then it became personal for him!

Barkley was the best player in the 92 Olympics. Everybody knows that.

“and that’s when i took it personal”

He actually was the best player in the dream team

It's been bashed out of them by wokeness and political correctness.

That team was golden great stars

@@tomiasthexder7673 dude sthu. u weirdo

steph curry and lebron are literally the most charismatic in todays game

@@rnac5438which says a lot and it doesnt help your case.

Magic as an orchestrator, Bird as a closer.

@@paulostatic8497 perfect

Well said!💯

Everybody always talks about who changes basketball but more important than that that is the fact that Magic and Bird saves basketball

Brid, every opportunity to engage in a bit of trash talkin'.

HAHAHAHA so wrong but so true.

if only they chose shaq lol...then we could say they would be the best team ever

Minus Shaq, Isiah Thomas, and Dominique Wilkins from being perfect.

+Michael Brown who would you take off besides laettner to make room for both zeke and nique? nique was injured anyways

+Michael Brown never mind i read your other post below about 13 players and cutting mullin, no not mullin, he was unbelievable in 92, all nba first team!

Magic got on blue tho.

Larry got on Blue too

Justin Guzman LMAO😂😂😂

Hahah true dat

lol

That's the only teammate he had in ups and down in utah

I am glad you pointed that out.

Would be wholesome if he wasnt an actual sexual predator lol

​@@Herzeder😭😭

Nah, John just looks like a minor. That's why Karl is looking for him. 😂

Well Stockton was responsible for almost all of Malone's points

+SuperMisteryMan01 and mslone his assist

Lmao and shoving chuck aside

War battle brothers.

LOL

Couldn't agree more. He was on the bus with them. I would cherish that forever.

Netret0120 same here, i would be grateful if i played with them...

Earnest Evans If I were him I would've been there just for the stories these guys had to tell.

Great college career but we all know Shaq or Grant Hill should have been on that squad.

Nah man. Shaq was more talented for sure, but Laettner schooled him head to head. Grant Hill was only a sophomore in '92 and Laettner was better at that point. Laettner definitely deserved to be the college player selected. 4 final fours, player of the year, 2 national championships. In reality it should have been Isiah Thomas, but he was a dick that Jordan didn't want to play with or Dominique Wilkins who was out with I believe knee surgery. Maybe Joe Dumars, Mark Price, or Reggie Lewis? Olajuwon for sure, but he wasn't a citizen until '93.

🤣

and Shaq

Lmao

or the 1960's team

😆

And he took that all the way to the NBA Hall of Fame as THE greatest forward to EVER play in the National Basketball Association!!!

Chris Michaels fuck no he isn’t he’s goat level but not the goat

@@kip6385 Denial...it's NOT a river in Egypt.

Chris Michaels he ain’t the greatest he’s obviously one of the greatest but he isn’t the goat

@@kip6385 The GOAT "forward"...ABSOLUTELY!!!

Lmaooo

That’s heart breaking man

Overrated Dookie

Savage 😂

This is consider a dick move in bird culture.

Ur right.

Respect

Persian Warrior what do you mean

Today's fans should practice that as well.

GOAT knows how to give RESPECT

Mj is a class act

DonDada low key he wanted to be in the middle or the one to give the speech

Probably because he is not a great speaker. Magic and Bird much better at that.

AD no he isn’t haha

@@AD-ur1fk Bullshit. He the most meanest self obessed evilest person.

he was the token college kid along for the ride.

I shat a few minutes ago .....

@@endebtedone lool i know.. but this many years later... on a stage that prestigious... and still just a brunt of the team. Imagine being 40 something Christian and being in his shoes then and there.

K Sonny they should’ve picked Shaq over laettner

@@eihtballjnky No. Many people now a days don't understand how dominate laettner was in college . He's the greatest college basketball player of all time, period. Even though he had a lackluster NBA career his college years propelled him to the hall fame.

Jerald i hope you are well,

Their show on Letterman was hilarious.

Well said!!!!! Also, a Red Sox fan here!!

Magic and Larry are Christians, Christians call everyone brother and sister.

@Tube Tube Gary Slavery isn't that good a ball player...easily owned...

Well, he wouldn't wear Celtics jersey for anything in this world, but he did for Larry. His brother indeed.

Basketball brings everybody together .

yeah

Larry could have been an equally great stand up comedian, he has great timing on and off the court. Truly funny, funny guy.

Best thing is he “back”ed it up with his play when he was on that team

If MJ wanted him on the wizards as a teammate, CL was at minimum, a very good player. MJ isn't a charitable person on the court

No he didn't. He was a joke.

@@redrick8900 Go watch the games. You can lead a horse to water. Can't make it drink.

@@Heraclitean Seeing them is how I know you are full of crap. He was a mid shooter that was protected by the refs.

@@redrick8900 As if the refs in the 1992 Olympics gave one shit about Christian Laettner.. you crack me up.

Every time I see them, I am grateful that I was able to watch them play! Such perfect basketball, it was amazing. I still remember my first game live at the AZ Veterans Memorial Coliseum back in May of 1991, when Magic dueled Kevin Johnson, one of the best games that I have ever witnessed!

FactZ!!! Handz down the best basketball ever!!!🙇‍♂️🖤

He was the Baddest Man on the planet, in a league full of Black Man

@bernard martin i love it when someone is cussing at bird HAHAHAHAHA

So true,and Thats last part was so funny 🤣😂

TheRealist 811 Watch every game they ever played against each other. Jordan reveled in destroying players confidence. Never tried with Larry, Probably figured anyone that can function with a back like that is not the smartest one to mess with

@@thepunditspundit1776 It wouldn’t have worked on Larry. He’s an Alpha.

Anyone noticed at the beginning of the speech Karl Malone looks for Stockton and ran over next to him? True teammates right there

Magic is a natural storyteller. Charisma coming out of his eyeballs.

@@chestersims8976 Copy and paste

"The Magic Bird"

That could happen one day.

I watched MJ win a Gold Medal at the 1984 Olympics before he went pro

yes, together with david robinson and john paxson @@ccoleman2801

That made me chuckle harder than i should've. It does look that way haha

But they all know who Barkley was. Imagine how good you have to be when magic Johnson said you were the best player on the team

It's a good thing Magic didn't thank Angola.

this just cracked me up so bad. Was thinking the same haha.

He looks out of it

malone had to find stockton just to be beside him and brushed aside barkley :D It's like that when two buddies are in a group. Jordan had to be near fellow Wizard christian laettner

They should've won a title, at least one

@@colleenross8752 yeah but chicago was hell of a team at the time

@@colleenross8752 Heh, Not with Jordan there....lol

Stockton to Malone bang!!!

Those guys could probably scrape up enough nickels to all chip in and buy Charles a tie for the next Dream Team anniversary

Jajajaja....yeah right...i love barkley...

Barkley took Barcelona way too seriously.

@M Shut up

@M Spot on!

AG21films he forgot about him 🤣🤣

😂😂😂😂😂😂

The team that could have come close was 2004. That is if everyone was on board; Shaq, Kobe, McGrady, Kidd, Allen, Carter, Garnett, Duncan, Iverson, Webber, Pierce, R.Wallace

@@adjeiboateng6720 not even close

@@nwosuemmanuel7251 Really? How?

@@adjeiboateng6720Well for one they lost😂

Didn't they lose?

Charles Barkley is his own personality.

Nikephorus Vlachos yo, I read this comment as Bird said it in the vid! Lol

Dude walked around Barcelona by himself with no security after the team got threats and when they asked him where's his security he held up his fists and said, this is my security....so yea, lol.

Nikephorus Vlachos no...switch “and” with “than”

And Christian Laettner

13

@@nojumper01 he was number 32 not 13

I mean they play for like 20 years together

@@Rio-mh1qf 13 as in the age of the girl look it up

@Johnny Myers prison is just a place

They were taking pictures and getting autographs.

Joe they hated each other bro😂

Magic and isaiah

Gangsterwaffles The 7th beforevthe converse commercial they did. After that off the court they are good friends. Larry said he likes Earvin the person but hates Magic the basketball player.

Gangsterwaffles The 7th We talking about the same Bird & Magic? I don’t think so!

Yeah but he's making fun of the 1992 dream team for being so impatient. lol Like these guys would have never been able to do that. Not that the old people are a joke. They had way more patience for life...is what he's saying.

Ok nevermind I take that back LOL. I actually believed him without thinking. That shows how I wasn't paying attention to what he was saying. Just thinking about him generally making a joke. That's obviously not how it was for the 60s team. Lolll so yes. Rlando James. You're right. He's teasing Oscar and Jerry West for sure and acting like they were from the 1800s or early 1900s lol.

Making a statement about how the IOC has been fucking athletes for years, Bird was one of them

I think it's more of a compliment

+Greg Gerrard 100 percent agree !!!

The greatest group of men to ever grace a basketball court and Laettner

lol savage...

Although Isaiah should have been there.

Greg Gerrard I agree, he should have been there ,one of the greatest natural born talent .

Not to mention he was BLESSED with Larry Legend and Magic.. RIP Commish

Cutey Nurse IMO, he wasn’t blessed with Bird and Magic- he helped make the league about Bird and Magic. He would have done the same thing for Dr J and Kareem had he taken over years earlier. He was an unbelievable marketer and made the league about personalities. The one thing he did get lucky with was that Bird and Magic landed on the 2 most recognizable teams.

JohnnyDemarco I respect your opinion, but I just don’t agree. The anticipation of what Larry and Magic were going to do at the NEXT level was so high. Their feud stemmed from college and then transcended over to the BIG LEAGUES and they didn’t disappoint. Those 2 Icons TRANSFORMED and SAVED the NBA. No disrespect to the commish, but he was definitely BLESSED with those 2 guys coming into the league and continuing that rivalry and both having MAJOR success. MANY YEARS OF IT. For the record, before I saw Larry Bird play as a little girl and a true sports fan, Dr J was my FAVORITE basketball player... then emerged #33.. My FAVORITE player of ALL time.

the NBA was failing in 1984?? i guess magic, bird, and dr.j just wernt exciting enough.

joe blow league revenue went from 165 million when Stern took over to 5.5 billion when he retired. There were more than 20 teams outside of LA and Boston and the vast majority were playing games in front of near empty arenas. Yes, the league was failing.

Lol

he's still a prick even till this day he didn't even laugh...

Michael Brown... and why is LAETTNER a prick??? coz he probably whoop your schools varsity team??? LOL bitter till this day??? LOL SMH

Haha also 5:01 Pippen double takes and looks back twice and says the same thing like "Damn...I'm sorry man"

And Christian Laettner I didn't forget about, you taught I forgot about you... CL be like "Hek yeah you did"😂😂😂

bruh that guy is not shy lol

Not humble on the court. Biggest trash talker to ever play!

Larry Bird is anything but shy, lol

+Dee Brownboi Laettner prob high as hell lol

+Dee Brownboi Yeah, from my lip reading I think MJ goes "Is he gonna mention you?" Laettner probably says something like "Do I deserve to be mentioned?" Then I actually think MJ says "He's just playing, he'll mention you in a minute".

+Dee Brownboi Hey Laettner was at least aware what he was compared to the rest of the team..At least he was honest and humble.

Dee Brownboi i

Shit I would've wanna be a part of that team I don't care if I was laettner

Harri v'Jah and Bird also did well in the end; thats why this guys are amazing, they were amazing players and now, when they talk about it, they also know how to do it

And Zeke!

+João Fernandes Most of these guys are as funny as all heck - but put Magic and Bird together and they are classic. And yep - even as a Boston fan that H A T E D Magic all those years - could listen to him tell stories all day every day.

Who that in your Prof pic? Mayweather and De la Hoya?

he recalls it all so well!

Exactly what im saying like players in 80s and 90s wanted to win way more than now,now its just statistics if you look at bad boys they are definition of wanting to win bad and MJ and Bird and Magic im young and i still say that people in 80s and 90s were way tougher than now physicaly and especialy mentaly,if rodman played today or laimbeer they would break every player mentaly,now everybody soft and its a fact

They didn't just change it... They saved it. The whole thing was on the brink of collapse when they came in and made it exciting and financially viable again.

IDK..Has anyone looked at DREAM TEAM 2?

@@grosskopf2779, It ain't even close. The only two players on the 1992 USA Basketball Olympic Dream Team that are not enshrined in the Basketball Hall Of Fame are Steve Smith and Christian Laettner. Heck, even two of the coaches on that team were enshrined in the Hall Of Fame: The late Chuck Daly, who served as the head coach, and Lenny Wilkins, who was on his staff.

@@dr.sinister9315 Not even close? Other than the players that overlapped on both teams:1996 Team David Robinson Hakeem Olajuwon Shaquille O'Neal Charles Barkley Karl Malone Scottie Pippen Penny Hardaway Grant Hill Reggie Miller Mitch Richmond Gary Payton John Stockton are you kidding? Steve Smith? Who the heck is Steve Smith, the Espn announcer? I will give you this, it seems that the 96 team had a HUGE ego problem.

@@dr.sinister9315 Steve Smith wasn't on the Dream Team

When you look back at your post does it not make you cringe ?

I thought it was weird at first that MJ didn’t speak, but Magic was the right choice.

@@bencarlson4300 Magic and Larry were co-captains of DREAM TEAM. That's why they speak

BORN leader! I mean, what a personality! 🔥

Facts

Was Chris Mullin really that good? I was surprised to see him on this dream team.

Job Cruz ...."Well, maybe not the BEST team assembled, but..." 😂😂😂. He stands by his 1986 Celtics.

Gives me great joy that he still talking trash

Still the best closer!

@@theloverswineverytime1625 well you gotta stand by facts

Classic Bird 👌

But he didn't acknowledge everyone. And when he finally did mention laettner after prompted he gave a very lackluster story in comparison to the other stories.

imma cumming well that’s exactly how it was, he wasn’t anywhere near a superstar as the others were and Christian knew that himself

@@barney5583 That's because Christian was a very lackluster player compared to the rest of the team. Not HIS fault for being the "token college player" though.

@@barney5583pretty much everyone acknowledges he only made the team because the committee wanted one college player. He was not on the same level as the rest of these guys

​@@barney5583magic did fine, what was he supposed to do with Christian, he couldn't compliment his game as well as the others because he wasn't a legend and never ended up being one,, the story with Barkley hitting him was cool enough to close the speech

that's actually wholesome lol

Same

Your one hundredth like!!!!!!

pain master who cares

Girl yo ass joined in 2016, stop bullshittin

​@@hupla6179 I can still get stuff in my recomondations thats just when I signed into RU-vid. But thank you for pointing it out!

For real, Larry was famously known for his shit talking.

I love Bird, always have, he played when I was feeling my oats as a young man, still managed to catch a game once and a while, I’d like to go back and watch a whole lot of more games😢😛😍

Yeah he believed that too when he tried his hand at a late night talk show but it didn't work out. In all seriousness though he does. One of the coolest to ever step on an NBA floor.

always comes in clutch

He always does. Such a great sense of humor!

as usual

The 86 team arguably was.

I have lost the count of how many times I watched this video, so uplifting...

He's a great storyteller for sure

He’s a great edifier too. Puts his ego aside

True!

Watching the games again is what led me to this video. The 1992 Dream Team era brings back nothing but great memories for me. Good times.

He was amazing. He forgot about Christian Lattner

Pussy

Yeah hold the orgasm right.. keep teasing yourself.. and by the end you just explode!

facts lol

4:30 lol true story. Even Jordan made a comment to Laettner in the back about it.

Devon Canty "last but not least... Larry bird" even though he hadn't said Christian's name 😂

rileyjoh19 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 im crying he was hurt back there

MrFraiche look at 4:58 when magic finally realized laettner was up there. He stared him down for like five seconds😂😂😂

2008-2012 spain's national football team.. 2 european cups and 1 world cup, dominated all of them, destroying the best teams in the world in the hardest and most anticipated sport

The most mentioned. In '92 they didn't face '90 world cup champions.

@@imcoolwiththat9668 no real madrid galacticos were better

@@Elxchino323 no they’re not, mid 2000s Milan can beat them

@randomm User1237589 Peps Barca was great but in my opinion they are a little overrated. 2008-2009 they got lucky that the ref didn’t give Chelsea 3 penalties and they didn’t deserve to be in the final, in 2009-2010 they lost to a great Jose Mourinho side in Inter Milan and held them to just one goal at the Camp Nou after thrashing them 3-1 at the San Siro. In 2011-12 they somehow lost to a mediocre Chelsea side thanks to their counterattacking. 2013 Bayern Munich can beat Peps Barcelona..

And it’s cool that Magic still shouted him out like everyone else.

Agreed

0:53 Laettner hugged MJ. They were still a team regardless of Laettner's average NBA career. And MJ reminded Chuck that he forgot to mention Laettner. 🤣 I bet MJ still care for the guy saw something that he can keep it up with the big names.

@@carlpatrickragas2159 so you called Laetener's NBA career average? I would describe his career as solid. He was not your average player. He was still way above average!

@@shenghan4897 Yeah, people who played with CL say his stats didn't reflect his effect. Passes denied, picks set, box outs to make sure a teammate gets the rip, the pass to the pass to the score, loose ball dives, loose ball 'gets', etc. There are a ton of ways to have an effect that don't show up in the stats.