Last night, the 1992 U.S. Men’s Olympic Basketball Team, better known as the Dream Team, was inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame.

The 1992 Dream Team, the first Olympic team to include NBA players, was sent on a mission to regain the gold medal after a team of college stars lost it to the Soviet Union in 1988 (the Soviet team featured future NBA players Arvydas Sabonis and Šarūnas Marčiulionis).

The team led by Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and Michael Jordan would go on to destroy the competition in both the 1992 Tournament of the Americas and the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.

The Dream Team would outscore their opponents by an average of 43.8 points, on an Olympic record 117.3 points per game, on their way to reclaiming the gold.   Even though they blew out their opponents, the team was treated like royalty by both fans and opponents alike. With their awe-inspiring play and international celebrity, the Dream Team is partly-responsible for how quickly the game went global.

On hand for the ceremony last night were seven of the Dream Team members Clyde Drexler, Patrick Ewing, Christian Laettner, Chris Mullin, Scottie Pippen, David Robinson, and John Stockton.

Also inducted into the hall was USA Woman’s great Teresa Edwards, the most decorated basketball player, man or woman, in Olympic history.  Edwards is both the youngest (1984, 20 years old) and oldest (2000, 36) U.S. women’s basketball player to win an Olympic medal played in five Olympics, gold medaling four times.