So the NBA Dream Team is dominating all competition by 40 50 even 60 points and it’s becoming a question all right is a dream team too good and it’s crazy to see how they can find a negative in the positive let’s get into it irin uh there’s been some comments that the
Dream team is getting all the attention and there seems to be some resentment about it have you heard about it and do you have any feelings about it uh basically you know we haven’t heard about it we’re just here to do our job the media may have been looking for
Signs of a backlash but in Barcelona and in the world beyond the Embrace of the dream team was Universal stand Ro against Picasso I mean you know seriously they rooted for genius at work I kept thinking that the attention would dissipate they’re going to play the first game they’re going to win by
60 people are going to go back and watch track Jordan in transition slam to give Team USA a 60-point lead it didn’t it kept building and building and building the US with another tring 12783 127 points workers were trying to get autographs the security people are trying to get autographs all the
Athletes were standing on side like a parade what a ball F by Scot Pi is a 58 point lead now the question is people perceived us as being superheroes this was a did any team give them problems any te the guy on the B is taking pictures
And I said wow we are having effect over here wrap around pass Rex another easy victory in this their fifth game of the Olympics it was as if the president of the United States was uh in the midst of a a caravan that was going through the Streets it was like the Beatles where there’s thousands and thousands of people waiting all the time that was the most exhilarating 15 seconds of my life we’re like wow this is amazing no one member of the dream team rebeled in the Olympic experience more than Charles Barkley it’s interesting after throwing
The controversial elbow against Angola Barkley had emerged as the team’s most visible I player everybody always had the same question how much of a an ass is Charles Barkley he jack when am I going to be on the cover Sports Illustrated for this stuff I should be
On the Dream Team cover and then every time you’d go spend time with him you know you just realize that he was the most enjoyable act not only in all of sports but possibly in all of Pop Culture sometimes I dream that he is
Me I just want to be like Chuck I mean my right away I told my editors I said well the number one angle here is what is Charles doing and if you wanted the answer to that question all you had to do was follow the crowds they’re like we
Don’t want you guys out and about because we don’t know how safe it is and I’m like dude I’m at the Olympics I’m not going to stay in my room the whole time so Barkley strolled Los rambos a man of the people if ever there was one
That’s true though man I walked up down the Rumblers every night and the people were fantastic they all wanted autographs and wanted to take pictures we could be inside the hotel soon we heard the big Roar we said there go Char he out would be walking and then thousands
Would be following him everywhere he went you know I’m not going Piper that ain’t safe though I ain’t going to lie that ain’t Char go over to the village and like find the angolan players and hang out along the ramblas at night he was the most memorable person
Of the 1992 Olympics I just saw this touch he had I don’t think anybody else in the world could have done it beside Charles Barkley the end of the day he was America’s best Ambassador Barkley was celebrated for experiencing the Olympics on his own terms more quietly one of his teammates
Found a way to do the same we had the motorcycle escorts and we bust through traffic like Dick Tracy but this one day we got stuck in traffic and we’re just sitting there and sitting there and sitting there finally said that’s it let’s go anybody wants to go with me I’m
Heading he’d get off the bus and his family met him he start walking right through the middle of everybody and nobody noticed him I’m still on the bus seeing and walk down the street I’m saying to myself I would give anything to do what he just
Did see guys this is called the rhombus see all the footprints all right so last rbl it’s like Time Square or something there’s just so many people walking I’m 6’1 I’m about the average size of everybody else on that little walk so I’m walking with my family and I
Have the camera and nobody’s noticing you think it’s the sunglasses that’s fooling them must be hi you’re from America yeah where abouts where abouts masss Massachusetts you’ve been watching the Dream Team at all yeah he has no idea yeah he’s like no attention whatsoever finally we ran across this
Lady who had the Dream Team and all the pictures on her t-shirt hi hi are you an American but of course you look wonderful well thank you she started speaking real excitedly about each of the players and I said have you had a chance to meet anyone we met Charles
Barkley the other night did you he’s hell of a player see you got all the players right there on your shirt is Charles the only one you’ve ever seen the only one I’ve ever met hey guys you know any of those guys on there I think my oldest son Houston ruined the
Surprise that’s my dad your dad that’s your dad too bad he’s not here she said don’t even know I do yeah I can’t go anywhere without being bugged he fits right not much different from Michael Jordan walking through here you going to see Michael Jordan for the players surreal experiences had become
The norm but even more memorable were the unlikely friendships developing behind the curtain it was a unique mix you know Larry Bird and Patrick Yan became like best friends I got a white guy from Indiana and I got a brother from Jamaica Patrick said I could pick his M it took me three
Minutes now now gets a chance to come back and start picking on mine took me one we would probably the two of those the most unlikely people you thought that would be friends but if you look not only Larry and I got to be great friends but all of
Those guys got to be much better friends we all enjoyed each other we all enjoyed the ride and we got a sense of each other as men then when we got to the court it made it even better the dream team’s chemistry turned out to be the Hallmark
Of their success as the players closed in on what they came for so they just swept everybody no big margins of Victory may have been a testament to their dominance but numbers couldn’t capture what made watching them so Unforgettable that’s great guys played the best basketball
You’ve ever seen in your life it was literally like great poetry or great art at times you feel you’re watching a performance a concert rather than a basketball competition this was fun this was like it’s how basketball supposed to be and at the center of the fun was the team’s biggest
Star here you go who had come to Barcelona at the peak of his powers and shown how much his popularity had exploded I will say this one thing about Michael Jordan I’ve been around other celebrities in my life I’ve never seen people react like they do to him people
Go crazy when they see him hey in every corner of the world there was someone who just wanted to see him Micha Jordan no one had the sort of pull the gravity that Michael Jordan had Jordan had initially come to Barcelona reluctantly but an early morning trip
Just before the gold medal game revealed how meaningful his Olympic experience had become can you imagine looking up at a poster in a different country 64 100 foot poster you just sitting there something like that that’s wild and I’m drinking coffee so it’s got to be a h
Can we go now where you from Albuquerque Albuquerque New Mexico big fan of yours everyone’s a big fan of yours your name George H George how you doing Michael George nice to meet you last night I hit my wall man I couldn’t make a basket what are you doing up so
Early I do remember getting up early to walk into the stadium that is the thing that I remember the most about the Olympics mhm Olympic Stadium imagine all the athletes has been here before us right the history it’s amazing what about every Moses won 22 consecutive races I think everybody’s got something to
Cherish I think this is something that my kids are going to love one day the Dream Team squared off against Croatia again in the gold medal game offering the world one more lasting impression of their Supremacy with the lead for B behind the backler you can’t do nothing about it
Bro to can’t do nothing about it we wanted to win and we wanted to dominate but how we did it sharing the ball including everybody we did it as a true team the US has defe croati 117 to and they had one for gold here7 85 easy gold easy go There was never really any doubt the Dream Team would win gold in 1992 but as they walked back onto the court to get their medals the moments still overwhelmed them you saw a lot of tears from players it was a very proud moment for me because anytime you
Represent your country you know that’s a prideful thing [Applause] man sent chills down my spine it was a reward that I had never felt like that I would ever achieve to do it on that stage with those group of guys it’s a Memory I’ll never forget nothing in my life has ever felt
Like standing on that Podium I was getting Goosebumps every single time I heard the national anthem after that had a different significant to me I knew what it really meant you know as a young kid growing up I I used to watch Olympics on TV with my father
And uh all he talked about was the star spangle banner and the gold medal made him feel proud to be American being up on that Podium that night and receiving it my father he’ve been pretty proud all those emotions just overcame me I got to be one of the guys one more
Time for my country right I said man I’ll never forget this moment you know if this is the end this how I wanted to go out this group May well be the greatest team ever assembled in the history of team sports but when the medal ceremony was over another realization began to settle
In yeah we walked off I remember thinking that whole dream has come to an end real quick if Michael Jordan don’t play around the next season every Olympian except Magic Johnson and Larry Bird would return to the NBA Michael Jordan and Scotty Pippen would win their third title against
Charles Barkley and the Phoenix Suns on the way to six championships overall the last three with Tony kach mhm eventually other members of the team would also win titles but each NBA player on the Dream Team would reach the Hall of Fame right still it’s what they did together that
Summer that had the biggest impact on the game an impact that continues to grow today it really lifted basketball and it gave birth to International stars who had nothing to do with those games in ’92 but who took so much from it we made the game a worldwide
Game you know I talked to Tony Parker I talked to janobi I talked to Dirk nitzki those guys say their first love of basketball started with the Dream Team and I’m really proud of that yeah the world can change a lot in 20 years but there are moments in time you never
Forget no matter how long it’s been no matter how much else has changed in your life since 20 years later they’ve all kept ties to to the game in one way or another and they all talk about the summer of ’92 as if it happened just yesterday an experience still unlike any
Other in their remarkable basketball lives I’ve never had more fun being around anybody everybody got along there was no ego we had fun you know clearly everybody reminds me I never won a championship so that to me was like winning the championship winning a gold medal and hanging out with these
Guys the reward itself is really only a small part of the story it’s what the gold medal represents that will always tie these men together this is like this fraternity that’s that’s pretty awesome I don’t think you ever going to be able to get get 11 Hall of Famers who play
All at once you know um on one team that’s that’s unheard of we going on the bus we come back walk out the hotel wave wave outside your window I can’t believe I all magic I just saw my God it changed sport as we know it they showed the world how to play
Basketball that boy fishing out there what other team can say that I don’t think we’ll ever see you like it again it’s an insult to compare anybody else to that team take a good look perhaps we’ll never see a team this great again Jordan you crazy [Applause] bro oh no we’ll see no
Team had that happen hasn’t had that happen and uh that’s the dream J we’ll see you guys and I say that because we all know that all right your boy LeBron trying to trying to form another dream team uh for the next upcoming Olympics so very excited about
That um this documentary again was a very fire informative um just look back on History man seeing the personalities of Charles Barkley uh Michael Jordan um and seeing how everybody just interacted with each other and had fun well started off rough Right started off rough but then kind of grew into like a
Brotherhood and that even made their bond on the court that much that much better so fire documentary guys comment down below what you guys think uh what should we check out next and until next time y’ be safe out there peace
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