Coming into the nine Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, the United States had compiled an astonishing seventy one and one record in men's basketball. Basketball was our game, and in no other venue was that so apparent as in the Olympics. But that year was different. While the rest of the world, who had been learning the game from the Americans, were sending their best players, the American team, made up of all college players, struggled to an embarrassing
bronze medal finish. That was the last time we sent our boys. Now it was time to send our men. Larry Bird studied Tippy Michael sure john stuffed Tris Mullet. Well, let's see. Patrick Johnson said it was his best memory ever. I finally got stand till with Michael and Layer and also know him at me, and that that right there for me was the best all the ninth Michael Nax Days Chairs Michael Jordan used it as a scouting expedition like me. For me because I never got to see
how the better got lived. It was more of a scouting for me. I wanted to see how Maddie ja. Larry Bird said, well, good thing. It didn't go on any longer. I always say, if that team was together another two weeks, we would had a lot of problems. You can see it. And the late great David Stern, who died on New Year's Day, Wait a minute, called me a Bozoh. Now when people don't remember, it's like boose like you that would say, this is now the
dream Team of flessed memory. They forget Charles Elbows, the angle in you know, bad sportsmanship, the US. This is crazy. What are we doing going? And hope you go back and why are you sending these things? This is the humili eight people. Michael covered up this logo with the American plague. I mean it was a you know now it becomes the atified. That is just a small sample of what I got during the two years it took
me to right. Dream Team, the two thousand and twelve New York Times bestseller about what many, probably most, consider the greatest team of all time. The Dream Team Tapes is a Diversion Podcasts original series and formis Monday May eighteenth, with two new episodes. Listen and follow The Dream Team Tapes on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcasts wherever you listen to your favorite Diversion brings will stories to life. Here more engaging shows at Diversion Podcasts dot com, m