Hoop dreams: the US basketball team that may have been the greatest of all time

Illustration: Nathan DanielsIllustration: Nathan Danielsdon’t know anything about Angola. But Angola’s in trouble.” The words of Charles Barkley at the Palau Municipal d’Esports the day before the US basketball team kicked off its run at the 1992Barkley himself would go on to score 24 points against Angola in an overwhelming victory, in the process elbowing an opponent in the neck to “show him what the NBA is like”.

Politics came into this. The Soviet Union opposed that move right to the end, but the Soviet Union was also in the process of dissolving. Historians – and AJP Taylor was very firm on this – may have decided the key note in the fall of the Berlin Wall was David Hasselhoff in a studded leather jacket miming Looking For Freedom to a collection of bemused East Berliners carrying sledgehammers.

Fans show their support for the US basketball team during the 117-85 victory over Croatia at the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.The real glue in this project was Magic, who had retired the year before after testing positive for HIV, and who was assumed by most of his teammates to be on borrowed time. There would be protests at his inclusion, notably from Australia’s team doctor, who suggested, based on zero evidence, that he would infect other athletes.

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