Those who avidly followed the on-court acrobatics and off-court celebrity of the Dream Team in Barcelona in 1992 would hardly recognize what passed as basketball fifty-six years earlier, when the United States first played the game in the 1936 Olympics. In those early days of men s Olympic basketball, many teams lacked basic skills, games were played in the pouring rain, only seven players could suit up, and the rules allowed only two substitutions and no time-outs. How this slow, low-scoring sport became the breakneck game that enraptures millions worldwide is the story of American...
Those who avidly followed the on-court acrobatics and off-court celebrity of the Dream Team in Barcelona in 1992 would hardly recognize what passed as...
Those who avidly followed the on-court acrobatics and off-court celebrity of the Dream Team in Barcelona in 1992 would hardly recognize what passed as Olympic basketball fifty-six years earlier, when the United States first played the game in the 1936 Olympics. In those early days of men s Olympic basketball, many teams lacked basic skills, games were played in the pouring rain, only seven players could suit up, and the rules allowed only two substitutions and no time-outs. How this slow, low-scoring sport became the breakneck game that enraptures millions worldwide is the story of...
Those who avidly followed the on-court acrobatics and off-court celebrity of the Dream Team in Barcelona in 1992 would hardly recognize what passed...