Dream team biography
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Dream Team (TV series)
British verify drama panel (1997–2007)
For additional uses, hunch Dream Arrangement (disambiguation).
| Dream Team | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Sports drama Family drama Soap opera |
| Written by | Various |
| Directed by | Various including: Carson Jetblack, Riita Leena-Lynn, Marcus D.F. White, Painter Penn, Maurice Hutchinson, Toweling Iland |
| Starring | Final cast Alison King Nina Muschallik Frankie Fitzgerald Terry Kiely Jonathan Howard Duncan Pow Jessica Jane James Floyd Junior Nunoo Danny Husbands Danny Midwinter Amy Perfect David Ajala |
| Music by | Gerry Moffett |
| Country hegemony origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. bad buy series | 10 |
| No. authentication episodes | 419 |
| Producers | Various including: Carson Sooty, Dewi Griffiths, Sarah Conroy, Ben Marshall, Nicky Poulton, John Salthouse, Sean Glynn |
| Editors | Various including: Robin Nurse, Tim Porter, Jo Walker, Tim Murrell, Dick Williams, Insignificant Morrow |
| Running time | 60 minutes (including advertisements) |
| Network | Sky One |
| Release | 14 October 1997 (1997-10-14) – 3 June 2007 (2007-06-03) |
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1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team
U.S. Olympic team (1992)
The 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team, nicknamed the "Dream Team", was the first American Olympic team to include active professional players from the National Basketball Association (NBA). The team has often been described as the greatest sports team ever assembled.[2][3][4]
At the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona, the team defeated its opponents by an average of 44 points en route to winning the gold medal round against Croatia.[5][6]
The team was collectively inducted into the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame in 2009, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2010, and the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2017. The Naismith Hall of Fame calls the team "the greatest collection of basketball talent on the planet".[7] In addition to the team induction, 11 players and three coaches have been inducted individually into the Naismith Hall of Fame.
Forming the team
Background
Before the 1992 Olympics, FIBA rules barred players from the United States' National Basketball Association from participating in Olympic tournaments, and only amateurs were eligible for the U.S. Olympic teams, which were composed of collegiate and, es
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How Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird Led the Dream Team to Olympic Gold
Following decades of dominance, by the late 1980s, it was clear that the American men's basketball program could no longer roll out a team of amateur players and expect to beat professionals from other countries simply because of the USA letters on their jerseys.
The point was driven home by a semifinal loss to the Soviet Union in the 1988 Olympics, so when the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) voted to allow American professionals to compete the following spring, it was time to assemble the cavalry for the 1992 Summer Games in Barcelona, Spain.
The result was 12 players who wound up with a combined 117 All-Star appearances and 23 titles over the course of their NBA careers, a collection of talent so astonishing that there was no other way to describe them but as the "Dream Team."
The team dominated their competition from the start
The Dream Team took Barcelona by storm that summer, delighting fans with their aerial aerobics and the sort of theatrics one would expect to see at a Harlem Globetrotters game. Opponents from countries like Angola, Puerto Rico and Spain were simply happy to be on the court with their NBA heroes as they were getting crushed by more than 40