Those are his words, not ours. This summer marks the 25th anniversary of the Summer Olympics in Barcelona. The game Jordan referenced was the famous scrimmage in Monaco, where the team trained for several days leading up to the Olympics. All the beautiful things about the game of basketball were illustrated in that one particular game.
John Stockton and Clyde Drexler were nursing injuries, so that left Daly with a group of 10 that he split into the white and blue teams, led by Jordan and Magic Johnson.
Nobody came close to touching the Dream Team once the Olympics got underway in Barcelona, as each of the USA's eight games was decided by more than 30 points.
Yet before these legends took the court for the world to see, this scrimmage in Monte Carlo set the tone for what followed in the coming weeks. Skip to main content Skip to navigation. The Dream Team scrimmage in Monte Carlo. March 12, Anthony Davis fills up stat sheet against Suns. Just four days before the start of the Barcelona Olympics, Chuck Daly's Dream Team were finishing their preparations in Monte Carlo and it was that July 22, when a final practice was carried out that would end up going down in history.
What exactly happened? To finalise preparations for the Games, head coach Chuck Daly intended to have a tough practice session at game intensity. For that, he organized a 5 vs 5 duel and to balance the competitiveness he put Michael Jordan on team and Magic Johnson on the other, the two leaders of the team. And of course, even while Magic was already retired from the NBA, after having announced a few months before that he was HIV-positive, the Lakers star was still a dazzling figure.
Meanwhile, Jordan had established himself as the best player in the league, coming off two NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls.
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