Revisiting the legacy of the 1992 Dream Team USA 🇺🇸 | NBA Today 

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 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.

Imagine if they had Larry and Magic in their prime and not at the end of their careers

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.

The 1992 Dream Team The Greatest Team Ever💯👍

I’ll never forget setting up lawn chairs in the living room with my brother pretending we were in Spain watching these legends.

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 🎯

This roster is sick. The original cheat code for gold 🥇

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.

Kids will never know how Barkley was the best of that 92 dream team, RESPECT!

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! 🌏🏀🇺🇸

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

I have such fond memories of the golden-age of basketball '80 to '02. I tried to continue to watch basketball after Jordan retired, but it was never the same. I finally quit altogether during the 2020 season. I don't miss it at all.

He wasn’t the only one that didn’t want him!!! He rubbed 3 people wrong on that team!!!

That Jordan and Pippen locking up Kukoc is pure fire!

Chuck Daly was a genius and a master at managing superstar athletes with outsized egos.

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.

The Greatest Team ever Assembled

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 .

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.

that is without a doubt the best team ever assembled 🏀🏀🥇🏆 there will NEVER be another team like that

Imagine having Magic, Bird, Jordan, Pippen, Barkley, etc on one team and having to coach them 😂😂😂

also, Coach Daly is the biggest influencer in this team.

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.

The best team in any sport ever

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?

more content from the 90s please. Best Basketball-Era ever!

I totally loved that team. ❤❤❤❤❤.

I wish we could go back and just rewatch live this team....

This is the Dream Team!!!

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.

Absolutely the greatest team ever assembled!!

I love throwbacks 💯

Simply the Greatest team ever assembled!

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.

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This Is the greatest team of all time in history of NBA the dream team

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 can watch this over and over again

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.

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.

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.

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.

Barkley always had a joke ready

The Greatest team of all time !

That Panama was as legendary as the Angola line by the Chuckster 😂😅

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

Magic pulled out the classic “They don’t love you like Kobe” 😂😂

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.

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 🏀🥇🇺🇲👍💛💜

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.

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.

They were unstoppable

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!

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

Shaq should've been there instead of Laettner. But we know the deal

Истинная команда мечты. И огромный талант тренеров, чтобы уравновесить индивидуальность каждого.

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

The only thing missing is the practice scrimmage of the Dream Team... the public wants it!

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.

Barkley was playing as well as anyone at that time and on that team.

For those who don't know, Barkley was the best player for that dream team on that olympics.

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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%.

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

Ain’t nobody f*cking with the 92 dream team

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

as a croatian , we were so so proud of being in the final ... no team like Dream team 1992 😄

Dream Team ‘92 was the best NBA advertisement ever. NBA owed that Dream Team for the global audience

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.

this is the best!

The only time we were disappointed was when the Olympics ended and they went their separate ways! With the Gold Medal of course!

YES GREATEST TEAM EVER 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆

The greatest sports team ever assembled

唯一的 Dream Team💯💯❤

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.

What's crazy is that they didn't need to redeem themselves

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 Dream Team was literally the equivalent to watching The Avengers on a sports stage.

My dream team

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🔥

He str8 called MJ a liar 😂 like he lied to him personally

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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.

Love that even blowing teams out, Jordan still found a way to make it personal (Kukoc)

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.

The interesting thing is that summer, there was some question as to whether John Stockton would be able to play due to injury. Had Stockton not been able to go, Chuck Daly was set to replace him with his own Detroit Pistons guard.... Joe Dumars. (Source: "Dream Team" by Jack McCallum, p 178-180)

Woke up at dawn probably 2 am consistently to watch the game live on tv due to time differences.

Remember the toughest match prior to Barcelona Olympics, they played in Monaco in practice , against each other

MJordan kept more than half of this team from winning an NBA Championship

USA! USA! USA! what a time to be alive

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.

The BEST Team ever assembled 🏀

The goat team

2012 dream team would squash this team

Was suprised Malika Andrews didnt mentiomed anything about Karl P. Malone

I hope all those jerseys made it to a museum for people to enjoy in person.

Im with Coach Daly's on his lesson of showing them theyre not infallibe which in turn probably helped them to not underestimate their opponents...i think thats literally the worse thing u can do when competing..from a street fight to college basketball, Target Practice and so on ..Never Underestimate Your Opponent..me personally i hate blowouts.. especially during special events like Finals or Super Bowl.. I've been on teams like that in high school where we blowing them out so badly it really aint even fun anymore and for me if someone is paying money to see me play i always want to give them their money's worth..me being apart of a winning team is great and fun but slaughtering an opponent is usually pretty boring to me so i know the fans must hate it too

Without a doubt

Still blaming MJ for Thomas not being there. At least half the team despised him. Incredible.