Basketball serves as a point of pride for fans of Team USA competing internationally. Sure, maybe our national sport is football, and our national pastime is baseball, but basketball is undoubtedly the sport Americans feel most territorial over. Perhaps it’s…
Noam Gumerman ranks the top seven Team USA men's basketball teams in history, naming the iconic 1992 "Dream Team" as the greatest ever assembled. Highlighted by Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and Larry Bird, the 1992 squad won Olympic gold by an average of 43.8 points, with head coach Chuck Daly famously not calling a single timeout throughout the entire tournament in Barcelona.
Gumerman's list also highlights dominant squads across different eras, including the 1956 Olympic team led by Bill Russell, the 1984 team featuring amateur standouts, the 1994 FIBA World Cup champions, the 2008 "Redeem Team," the 2012 Olympic squad, and the 2024 Olympic "Avengers" team starring Stephen Curry and LeBron James.
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