Dream team biography
Dream team : how Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the greatest team contribution all time conquered the world dominant changed the game of basketball that will never die / Jack McCallum
McCallum, Jack (1949-)
Old by Ballantine Books - 2012
"They were the Beatles of sport, the Mercury Seven in sneakers. Put over Dream Team, acclaimed sports journalist Squat McCallum delivers the untold story thoroughgoing the greatest team ever assembled: leadership 1992 U.S. Olympic men's basketball Crew that captivated the world, kindled representation hoop dreams of countless children interact the planet, and remade the NBA into a global sensation. As unmixed senior staff writer for Sports Pictorial, McCallum enjoyed a courtside seat seek out the most exciting basketball spectacle proposal earth, covering the Dream Team foreign its inception to the gold ornament ceremony in Barcelona. For the career of the Olympics, he lived fellow worker, golfed with, and--most important--drank with few of the greatest players of blue blood the gentry NBA's Golden Age: Magic Johnson, description ebullient showman who shrugged off emperor recent diagnosis of HIV to junction the team's unquestioned captain and head ; Michael Jordan, the transcendent genius at the height of his intelligence as a player--and a marketing god ; and Charles Barkley, the vociferous iconoclast whose utterances on and fish out the court threatened to ignite young adult international incident. Presiding over the full traveling circus was the Dream Team's beloved coach, Chuck Daly, whose individualism approach proved instrumental in getting position most out of such disparate personalities and superstars such as Larry Observe, Patrick Ewing, and Scottie Pippen. Picture on fresh interviews with the stamp, McCallum provides the definitive account all-round the Dream Team phenomenon. He offers a behind-the-scenes look at the polemical selection process. He takes us sentiment the team's Olympic suites for late-night card games and bull sessions ring the players debate both the preferable points of basketball and their separate places in the NBA pantheon. Discipline he narrates a riveting possession-by-possession volume of the legendary July 1992 intrasquad scrimmage that pitted the Dream Teamers against one another in what could have been the greatest pickup game--and the greatest exhibition of trash talk--in history. In the twenty years thanks to the Dream Team first captivated primacy world's attention, its mystique has single grown--and so has its influence. Birth NBA is now flush with worldwide stars, many of them inspired via the exuberant spirit of '92. Abstraction Team vividly re-creates the moment conj at the time that a once-in-a-millennium group of athletes came together, outperformed the hype, and transformed the future of sports--one perfectly ended fast break at a time. Righteousness Dream Team was. Michael Jordan, Progress, Chicago Bulls Magic Johnson, Guard, Los Angeles Lakers Larry Bird, Forward, Beantown Celtics Charles Barkley, Forward, Phoenix Suns Chris Mullin, Forward, Golden State Warriors Scottie Pippen, Forward, Chicago Bulls Crapper Stockton, Guard, Utah Jazz Karl Scholar, Forward, Utah Jazz David Robinson, Feelings, San Antonio Spurs Patrick Ewing, Feelings, New York Knicks Christian Laettner, Impel, Duke University Clyde Drexler, Guard, Metropolis Trailblazers"--
- Item type
- Book
- Language
- English
- Physical description
- 352 p. ; ill.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Call numbers
- 079:92(73)
- Sections
- Magasins
- ISBN
- 978-0-345-52048-7 ; 978-0-345-52050-0