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This is the Dream Team Tapes, a diversion podcast's original series in association with IHeart Radio.

Coming into the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul, South Korea, the United States had compiled an astonishing 71 and one record in men's basketball.

Basketball was our game, and in no other venue was that so apparent as in the Olympics.

But that year was different.

While the rest of the world, who had been learning the game from the Americans, were sending their best players, the American team, made up of all college players, struggled to an embarrassing bronze medal finish.

That was the last time we sent our boys.

Now it was time to send our men.

Larry Bird! Larry Bird! we sent our boys. Now it was time to send our men. Larry Byrd, Scottie Pippin, Michael Jordan, Carl Malone, John Stockton, Chris Mullen, Charles Barkley, Irvin Magic Johnson.

Well, let's see. Patrick Johnson said it was his best memory ever. I finally got a chance to play with Michael and Larry and also know them as men.

And that right there for me was the best.

All those nights Michael Knox stayed, I would cherish those moments.

Michael Jordan used it as a scouting expedition.

It was enlightening to me because I never got to see how these other guys lit.

It was more of a scouting fit for me.

I wanted to see how Maddie Johnson prepared for a game.

Larry Bird prepared for me.

Larry Bird said, well, good thing it didn't go on any longer.

I always say if that team was together another two weeks, we would have a lot of problems.

You can see it.

And the late great David Stern, who died on New Year's Day, 2020, wait a minute, called me a bozo.

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