Episode 9 |
This is the strongest starter in history rated by the American media, but in fact, in the hearts of many people, there is only such a strong and luxurious one in history. In 1992, the "Dream Team", basketball god Jordan, Magic Johnson, Big Bird Larry Bird, Admiral Robinson, Air Flying Pig Barkley. This is the first time that the U.S. men's basketball team has sent professional players to the Olympics, with 12 players, 11 future Hall of Fame players, and 11 NBA all-time 50 superstars.
At the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the U.S. men's basketball team capsized in the gutter, creating the biggest shame after defeating Munich. In order to save face, the US men's basketball team released a big move, summoning the formation of the dream team, the strongest professional player in China at that time, and the most important thing was to select people. Among them, Isaiah Thomas's defeat became the biggest controversy of that term.
Many people say that Jordan is the ghost because he has a bad relationship with Thomas, but in fact, he has a festival with Thomas, and Jordan is the only one. Magician Larry Bird and even Pippen hated Thomas, and everyone attributed it to Jordan. Jordan responded years later, "You want to boil it down to me, "but I didn't do it." After the formation of the dream team, the whole team played a team practice game before the game.
Jordan's team fell behind in the opening game, Magic and Barkley verbally squeezed, constantly spraying garbage talk at Jordan, and finally Jordan was completely provoked, he continued to attack with one person, helping the team to overtake the score, even the always tough Magician regretted provoking Jordan. After this game, everyone recognized the fact that a new era has come, Jordan is the strongest in the new era, there is no one.
At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, Jordan Pippen saw Croatia as a thorn in his side. The reason is that in the 90 draft, the Bulls selected Croatian star Tony Kukoc in the second round, Klaus valued this young man very much, flattering, he even put Pippen aside and went to negotiate a contract with Kukoc, which made Jordan and Pippen very dissatisfied.
Against Croatia in the group stage, Jordan and Pippen released harsh words before the game to block Kukoc. This game Kukoc was bullied miserably, scoring only 4 points in the whole game, and he didn't even know how to offend Jordan. In the Olympic final, the United States team met Croatia again, this time Kukoc returned, he was not as weak as he imagined, but very strong, and exchanged hard work for Jordan's respect.
At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the U.S. men's basketball team won all eight games, scoring more than 100 points per game, and outscoring opponents by an average of 43.8 points. At the championship award ceremony, there was also an episode where Jordan thought of such a move because he didn't want to show the Reebok logo on his chest.
Although this episode caused some controversy, it did not change the course of history. Team Dream One amazed the world and changed international basketball. The NBA has since taken the world by storm. As the face of the Dream Team, Jordan was pushed to an incredible height, and the whole world knew the flying Jordan. However, with the fame of the world, Jordan slowly fell into scandal.
