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Article: Australia Next Opponent for United States // Dream Team Meets Reality
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- August 9, 1994
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TORONTO Dream Team II players no longer brag about how much
better they are than Dream Team I.
Instead, America's second NBA-dominated basketball national team
has shifted concentration away from the comparisons with the past to
the challenges of the present.
It's not the ghosts of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry
Bird, Charles Barkley and Karl Malone that Dream Team II must beat to
win the gold medal in the 12th World Championship of Basketball.
Rather, it's the likes of Australia's 6-7 Andrew Gaze, Croatia's
6-11 Toni Kukoc (of the Bulls), Canada's 6-7 Rick Fox, Greece's 7-1
Panagiotis Fassoulas, Puerto Rico's 6-11 Jose Ortiz, China's 7-1 Tao
Shan and Russia's 6-3 Sergei Babkov.