The True Story Of How The Grateful Dead Sponsored Lithuania’s 1992 Olympic Basketball Shirts [Video]

Several celebrities have recently been spotted wearing tie-dyed Lithuania n basketball shirts, and the story of how these bright shirts came to be is even weirder than seeing hippies at a sports game. These bright shirts' origin story eventually surfaced again thanks to an X user named Mike Korzemba.

Sarunas Marciulionis, a Lithuanian who was playing for the NBA at that time, understood how desperate his fellow citizens were to make it to the Olympics, and along with coach Donnie Nelson, began raising funds as the story about their struggle was covered by San Francisco Chronicle sports writer George Shirk. The story eventually found its way to the Grateful Dead, who were inspired by the former USSR country and their dream to send their basketball players to compete in the Olympics.

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