Acclaimed sports journalist Mccallum delivers the untold story of the Greatest Team ever assembled: the 1992 U.
S.
With a new Afterword by the author The absolute definitive work on the subject, a perfectly wonderful once-you-pick-it-up-you-won\'t-be-able-to-put-it-down book.-- The Boston Globe An Olympic hoops dream.-- Newsday What makes this volume a must-read for nostalgic hoopsters are the robust portraits of the outsize personalities of the participants, all of whom were remarkably open with McCallum, both then and now.-- Booklist (starred review).
Dream Team vividly re-creates the moment when a once-in-a-millennium group of athletes came together and Changed the future of sports--one perfectly executed fast break at a time.
In the twenty years since the Dream Team first captivated the world, its mystique has only grown.
And he narrates a riveting account of the legendary intrasquad scrimmage that pitted the Dream Teamers against one another in what may have been the Greatest pickup Game in history.
He takes us inside the team\'s Olympic suites for late-night card games and bull sessions where superstars like Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Larry Bird debated the finer points of basketball.
He offers a behind-the-scenes look at the controversial selection process.
Drawing on fresh interviews with the players, Mccallum provides the definitive account of the Dream Team phenomenon.
As a writer for Sports Illustrated, Mccallum enjoyed a courtside seat for the most exciting basketball spectacle on earth, covering the Dream Team from its inception to the gold medal ceremony in Barcelona.
Olympic Men\'s Basketball Team.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Acclaimed sports journalist Jack Mccallum delivers the untold story of the Greatest Team ever assembled: the 1992 U.
S.
As a writer for Sports Illustrated, he enjoyed a courtside seat for the most exciting basketball spectacle on earth--the original Dream Team.
Olympic Men\'s Basketball Team.
Acclaimed sports journalist Mccallum delivers the untold story of the Greatest Team ever assembled: the 1992 U.
S
