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Article: I'll stick with the Dream Team
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- Charleston Daily Mail
- Article date:
- August 13, 2002
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IT would be a nightmarish mistake to break up the Dream Team.
Thankfully, it won't happen.
At a meeting of the international basketball federation this week
in Rome, NBA Deputy Commissioner Russ Granik announced that the Dream
Team will still be composed almost entirely of pro players for the
1998 world championships in Greece and the 2000 Olympics in Sydney,
Australia.
That's good news.
The Olympics are for the world's best athletes, regardless of
whether they are pros or amateurs.
And the Dream Team should be a source of enormous pride for
Americans.
The Dreamers have proven resoundingly that U.S. basketball is the
best on the planet.
Still, the Dream Team has many critics, most of whom ...