Jack McCallum: Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever

Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever



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Author: Jack McCallum
Number of Pages: 384 pages
Published Date: 30 Apr 2013
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Publication Country: New York, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780345520494
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"NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER Acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled: the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men s Basketball Team. As a writer for "Sports Illustrated, "McCallum enjoyed a courtside seat for the most exciting basketball spectacle on earth, covering the Dream Team from its inception to the gold medal ceremony in Barcelona. Drawing on fresh interviews with the players, McCallum provides the definitive account of the Dream Team phenomenon. He offers a behind-the-scenes look at the controversial selection process. He takes us inside the team s Olympic suites for late-night card games and bull sessions where superstars like Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Larry Bird debated the finer points of basketball. And he narrates a riveting account of the legendary intrasquad scrimmage that pitted the Dream Teamers against one another in what may have been the greatest pickup game in history. In the twenty years since the Dream Team first captivated the world, its mystique has only grown. "Dream Team "vividly re-creates the moment when a once-in-a-millennium group of athletes came together and changed the future of sports one perfectly executed fast break at a time. With a new Afterword by the author The absolute definitive work on the subject, a perfectly wonderful once-you-pick-it-up-you-won t-be-able-to-put-it-down book. "The Boston Globe" An Olympic hoops dream. "Newsday" "" What makes this volume a must-read for nostalgic hoopsters are the robust portraits of the outsize personalities of the participants, all of whom were remarkably open with McCallum, both then and now. "Booklist" (starred review)"