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"Hi, I'm Michael Jordan": 30 years later, how the Dream Team changed the world of basketball

2022-07-27T14:14:07.072Z

30 years ago, at the Olympic Games in Barcelona, the United States presented the "dream team", perhaps the greatest sports team of all.

Monaco, July 1992. Two men greet each other in English and it goes something like this: “Hello, my name is Francis Jordane and I am the coach of the French basketball team.

The other replies: “Hi, I'm Michael Jordan and I'm a basketball player, a member of the American team which is preparing here for the Barcelona Olympics.

We call it the Dream Team.

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