Dream Team by Jack Mccallum

Dream Team by Jack Mccallum

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Acclaimed sports journalist Jack McCallum delivers the untold story of the greatest team ever assembled- the 1992 U.S. Olympic Men's Basketball Team. As a writer for Sports Illustrated, McCallum enjoyed a courtside seat for the most exciting basketball spectacle on earth, covering the Dream Team from its inception to the gold medal ceremony in Barcelona. Drawing on fresh interviews with the players, McCallum provides the definitive account of the Dream Team phenomenon. He offers a behind-the-scenes look at the controversial selection process. He takes us inside the team's Olympic suites for late-night card games and bull sessions where superstars like Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Larry Bird debated the finer points of basketball. And he narrates a riveting account of the legendary intrasquad scrimmage that pitted the Dream Teamers against one another in what may have been the greatest pickup game in history. In the twenty years since the Dream Team first captivated the world, its mystique has only grown. Dream Team vividly re-creates the moment when a once-in-a-millennium group of athletes came together and changed the future of sports-one perfectly executed fast break at a time.

With a new Afterword by the author

"The absolute definitive work on the subject, a perfectly wonderful once-you-pick-it-up-you-won't-be-able-to-put-it-down book."-The Boston Globe

"An Olympic hoops dream."-Newsday

"What makes this volume a must-read for nostalgic hoopsters are the robust portraits of the outsize personalities of the participants, all of whom were remarkably open with McCallum, both then and now."-Booklist (starred review)

Since 1981, Jack Mccallum has been the chief NBA reporter for Sports Illustrated. His work has appeared in the Best American Sports Writing Anthology, and he was awarded the Curt Gowdy Media Award for exceptional writing by the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2004. He is the coauthor of Foul Lines: A Pro Basketball Novel and the author of Unfinished Business: On and Off the Court with the 1990-91 Boston Celtics. He resides in the city of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

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ISBN 13	9780345520494
ISBN 10	0345520491
Title	Dream Team
Author	Jack Mccallum
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2013-04-09
Number of pages	400
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