No Excuses
The Dream Team Tapes
iHeartPodcasts and Diversion
4.4 • 553 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In the days leading up to the 2008 Games, Kobe Bryant gets away (barely) with tardiness but not with questionable shot selection. Once in Beijing, Yao Ming hits an opening shot heard throughout the land, but the U.S. at last gets the chance to flex its Olympic muscle.  Starring Chris Bosh, Coach K, Craig Miller, Jason Kidd, Carmelo Anthony, Jerry Colangelo.
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| 0:00.0 | The Dream Team Tapes Season 2. |
| 0:04.3 | Kobe, LeBron, and the Redeem Team is a production of Diversion Podcasts, |
| 0:09.5 | an association with IHeart Radio. Diversion Podcasts. |
| 0:25.1 | The player selected for the honor of representing the United States in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games are Kobe Bryant. |
| 0:36.1 | We look forward to this for a while, you know, to be in this position now to be able to represent our country. |
| 0:40.3 | And it's special. |
| 0:42.3 | It's special. |
| 0:43.3 | LeBron James. |
| 0:46.3 | We look for the opportunity to re-kent on that flame on being the best in the world. |
| 0:50.3 | I guess the redeemed team is right. |
| 0:52.3 | We're the best team in the world We're the best team in the world. |
| 0:54.8 | We're the best team in the world. |
| 0:56.2 | We put basketball, America basketball, where is supposed to be, which is at the top? |
| 1:23.7 | Yeah. Hello and welcome to Kobe LeBron and the redeemed team when at last we reached the Chinese capital city of Beijing, one of the oldest cities in the world with a history |
| 1:29.2 | that dates back at least 3,000 years and was once known, still known in some quarters, as |
| 1:34.7 | Peking. But we are not here co-host J.A. Edande to speak of a delicious crispy duck entree. |
| 1:42.6 | We are here to speak of the 2008 team that entered the |
| 1:46.5 | Olympic Games as, well, I suppose the favorite, but not the overwhelming favorite. So how's |
| 1:52.5 | that possible? And just give a brief update before we talk about the Olympics on how things |
| 1:58.7 | were looking as they headed into Beijing. |
| 2:06.0 | The world had clearly clod up to the United States, and there were several U.S. losses that we've chronicled here. |
| 2:07.7 | So this was a stronger U.S. team, certainly. |
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