Sabrina B. The 2012 US Olympic basketball roster has been set, Blake Griffin is already throwing down ridiculous dunks in practice, and some are saying it’s the greatest squad to represent America ever. But could this year’s Team USA take down the legendary 1992 Dream Team? The Los Angeles Lakers’ Kobe Bryant thinks so, saying when asked by a reporter “it would be tough, but I think we’d pull it out.”
NBA: Clyde Drexler Implies Magic Johnson & Larry Bird Didn’t Deserve to Make the Dream Team
Clyde Drexler may have backed off the comments he made to Jack McCallum in the upcoming book “Dream Team,†but the more McCallum releases from the book, the worse Drexler looks.  Read more after the jump. Shay Marie x Sabrina B.
(Video) NBA: Magic Responds To Clyde Drexler About Negative HIV Quotes; Clyde Denies Statements
Sabrina B. Clyde Drexler denied Wednesday making negative statements attributed to him about Magic Johnson in an upcoming book about the Dream Team.
NBA: Clyde Drexler on Magic Johnson: “Everybody Kept Waiting For Magic To Die”
Sabrina B. It seems that not everything was dreamy with the 1992 Dream Team. The U.S. Olympic team, made up of some of the NBA’s biggest stars had its share of issues that Sports Illustrated’s Jack McCallum has captured in his book “Dream Team.†One story in the book details how Clyde Drexler has not let go of his his bitter feelings toward Magic Johnson, who had learned he was HIV positive a year earlier, retired and came back to play in the 1992 All-Star Game. Magic also got to keep his spot on the Olympic team, which rankled Drexler then and now.
NBA: Shaq Was Mad The Dream Team Selected Christian Laettner Over Him
Sabrina B. Quite understandably, Shaq was beside himself when he found out that Christian Laettner took the final roster spot on the legendary Dream Team. But, 20 years later, O’Neal has come around on the decision.
(FULL Video) NBATV’s The Dream Team Documentary
Sabrina B. For years, the 1992 men’s Olympic basketball team — the Dream Team, the greatest collection of basketball talent, and maybe overall sporting talent, to wear the same uniform — has spawned all sorts of urban legends. Stories about intense scrimmages. Stories about Michael and Magic playing horse and sizing each other up. Stories about a loss to college kids. Now there’s footage to back it all up. Dion Cocoros, one of the executive producers of “The Dream Team,†the excellent new documentary that premiered last night on NBA TV, helped dig up that footage. In an interview with Keeping Score, Cocoros talks about how he got all 12 Dream Team members to sit down for interviews, why Isiah Thomas, the most prominent player left off the team, didn’t want to talk, and how the NBA would be different without the Dream Team. Watch the FULL video after the jump…
