27 Years Ago Today We Watched The Greatest Basketball Team Of All Time Cap Off The Most Dominant Run Ever Witnessed
With the FIBA World Cup about to kick off in a few weeks, chances are if you’ve been feening for any sort of basketball this summer you’ve been watching all the clips that have come out over the last few days. While they are awesome and certainly stratch that itch, on the 27 year anniversary of the greatest basketball team ever assembled winning gold, I figured why not take some time in your afternoon to kick your basketball porn up a notch.
Looking back it’s comical how fucking stacked that team was. In total, 11 of the 12 players on the active roster have been elected to the Hall Of Fame (thoughts and prayers for Christian Laettner) and 3 of the 4 coaches (thoughts and prayers for PJ Carlesimo) also were selected. Never again will we ever see a collection of talent both in terms of players and coaches again. Even if you think the Redeem Team was stacked, it doesn’t come close to this team in my opinion. You look at their margin of victory and it’s some rookie mode 2K shit
Angola: 68
Lithuania: 51
Brazil: 44
Germany: 43
Spain: 41
Puerto Rico: 38
Croatia: 33 (Gold Medal Game)
What even is that. While the days of dominating international competition like this are probably over, mostly because other countries aren’t as intimidated like they were back in 1992, I feel like even if this group played today they’d smoke the entire planet. It stinks we don’t have the technology to see this team face the 2008 team, that might be the best basketball game any of us have ever witnessed so I’m going to need science to get its shit together and figure time traveling out already.
Anyway, given today is the anniversary of their gold medal, what better way to honor them than to relive the dominance that was truly one of a kind
