When Kobe Bryant proclaimed that this year’s Olympic basketball squad would beat the fabled 1992 Dream Team, Michael Jordan admits he was shocked at first.
“I thought to myself, ‘We had 11 Hall of Famers on our team, including some of the NBA’s all-time greats’,” His Airness told OMGG.com. “But after watching the likes of Tyson Chandler and James Harden dominate Lithuania by five, I realized Kobe was on to something.”
While the 1992 squad defeated its opponents in Barcelona by an average of 44 points, they never proved they could overcome adversity by churning out gritty, seven-point victories like the 2012 team did in the London gold medal game.
“We had some fine players in Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Karl Malone,” said Dream Team member Charles Barkley. “But nothing strikes fear into an opponent like hearing he’ll be going head-to-head against the legendary Andre Iguodala.”
August 14, 2012
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