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Well they lost a scrimmage to the college team with Grant Hill on it lol

Isiah got robbed because of Jordan
Isiah's own behavior cost him the Dream Team. His comments about Larry Bird, spreading rumors about Magic being gay after the HIV announcement, and ducking a handshake when the Bulls got over the hump and beat Detroit sealed his fate.
 

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LOL

Are you denying that?

Ever watch basketball in the 80s?

Dream Team tour bus there is a famous clip of Larry and Magic joking about “you can’t get to close to MJ or it is a foul”

Superstar calls became a thing in the 80s as the league really tried to market its biggest names.
Except that claim is based more in exaggeration than in truth. Harden was averaging as many FTA's or more while chucking up threes than Jordan was getting as a slasher when the lanes were more clogged than they are now.
 

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Can anyone beat this team?

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I mentioned Isiah Thomas and it seems like several of the guys on the Dream Team had issues with him. But what about Dominique Wilkins? He seems like a guy who should/could have been on this team, as well. I wonder if he was one of the last names cut from consideration. He would have fit in nicely. I always loved watching The Human Highlight Film as a kid.
 

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Isiah's own behavior cost him the Dream Team. His comments about Larry Bird, spreading rumors about Magic being gay after the HIV announcement, and ducking a handshake when the Bulls got over the hump and beat Detroit sealed his fate.
Magic wasn’t gay, of course. He was merely bisexual.
 

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Why do you only call out LeBron for flopping? Your issues with him are strange.
Cause he does it every single game. All
Time greats didn’t flop like him to seek attention so he can get up and make it look like he finished a game after a “hard” foul lol
 

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I mentioned Isiah Thomas and it seems like several of the guys on the Dream Team had issues with him. But what about Dominique Wilkins? He seems like a guy who should/could have been on this team, as well. I wonder if he was one of the last names cut from consideration. He would have fit in nicely. I always loved watching The Human Highlight Film as a kid.

He might have been had he been healthy.

Tore his Achilles season before the 92 Olympics
 

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He might have been had he been healthy.

Tore his Achilles season before the 92 Olympics
Thank you. Didn’t remember that, but it makes perfect sense. I’m not even sure who goes if Dominque is on that team. Probably Mullin.
 

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Except that claim is based more in exaggeration than in truth. Harden was averaging as many FTA's or more while chucking up threes than Jordan was getting as a slasher when the lanes were more clogged than they are now.

Do you watch basketball now?
 

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1972 Soviet Limpic team. Forced you to start assembling Wet Dream teams.

Meanwhile back at the ranch your “51st” state was kicking same level of Soviet hockey ass snd saving the free world from Russian hordes in the process.
 

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I'm not sure that is even our best Olympic team ever

But it is 100% the group who made the world fall in love with basketball and increased foreign hoops to the levels we see now

That alone makes them the most important team ever
 

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Doesn’t even matter. Doesn’t make him any less of a superstar(and definitely one of the best I ever saw). But he was banging dudes, for sure.
Obviously you can think what you want
 

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You have proof of this?

Or just speaking from experience?
This is well-documented stuff. Magic is/was a freak. He’s into ladies. He’s into dudes. He’s into all of it. I thought this was common knowledge by now. Didn’t realize it was even controversial.
 
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