After the disappointment at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the United States decided to send NBA basketball players to the biggest international competitions. FIBA agreed, and that's how, in 1991, the concept of “Dream Team” was born. A dream team composed of the best players of the era from Michael Jordan to Magic Johnson, including Larry Bird and Charles Barkley. These are the “Expendables” of sport, and for Talent Sports, Elvis Roquand looks back at the dream teams that have marked the history of the Olympic Games with Dream Team Legacy.
Even if for many, there is only one “Dream Team”, we cannot forget Dream Team II which will march on the 1994 World Cup, or Dream Team III which will explode everything in Atlanta at the 1996 Olympic Games.
This book reminds us why the very expression “Dream Team” has gone down in history, and looks back at the players who left their mark on this period when the United States marched on world basketball to reaffirm their place as number 1 in world basketball.
They will then relax, and it will take the creation of the “Redeem Team”, with Kobe Bryant and LeBron James, for the United States to regain the leadership of world basketball at the Olympic Games. But we no longer speak of a “Dream Team”…
Dream Team Legacy
Author: Elvis Roquand
Publisher: Talent Sport
ISBN: 9782378153830
128 pages
Paper format: 19.90 euros
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