Growing up in Michigan, I disliked Larry Bird and his Boston Celtics a lot. It wasn’t until later in Bird’s career, and after he had retired that I began to look past my prejudice and really appreciate the man’s basketball ability. Bird is the owner of one of my top-3 favorite NBA plays of all [...]
Posted by Stuart Leung on 03 Nov 2009 at 6:37 am under Uncategorized
When the Game Was Ours, a book authored by NBA legends Magic Johnson and Larry Bird is to be released tomorrow on November 4th, 2009. (Buy When the Game was Ours from Amazon or discuss the book in our forums) The book created buzz when excerpts of the book were leaked to the media, causing a [...]
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 [...]
Twenty-five years ago, when the first ten players of the original basketball Dream Team were announced, American media celebrated the historic assemblage of talent, and who could blame them? This was the cream of the crop from the NBA’s Golden Age led by iconic legends. And for a teenager at the height of my NBA [...]
The 1992 Olympic Mens Basketball Team, or the Dream Team as they were commonly known, were the first US Olympic Team to feature professionals. This legendary team featured three of the best basketball players EVER in Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. And the rest of the roster was filled with luminaries from the [...]
Are you interested in the 1992 Olympic Dream Team DVDs? Click here Whether you are interested in an individual game, the Olympics, the Tournament of Americas, or the entire set, Interbasket has all 14 of the Olympic Dream Team games on DVD. Catch the team that featured Magic, Bird, Jordan, Barkley, Ewing, Pippen, Drexler, Mullin, [...]
On September 12, 2007, FIBA will induct the 2007 class of international players into the new FIBA Hall-of-Fame. The inductees were chosen from a large list of nominees that numbered nearly 200 of some of the most influential players, coaches, referees and contributors not already in the hall. The ceremony will take place in Alcobendas [...]
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