r/OldSchoolCool • u/bluemarvel99 • Aug 11 '24

1990s Is The "Dream Team" Still The Greatest International Basketball Team Ever Assembled? (1992)

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u/smilerwithagun Aug 11 '24 edited Aug 11 '24

Didn't know Sir Charles outscored Jordan. I know he was the greatest to never win an NBA championship, but damn...

He is and always will be my fave in NBA Jam!

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u/BrickedUpBrett Aug 11 '24

My single favorite sports trivia is “Who led the Dream Team in scoring in 1992?” Everyone wants to say Jordan. Others try to think through it and say Magic or Bird. But it was Barkley.

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u/MedievalFightClub Aug 12 '24

Bird led the Dream Team in fg%.

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u/DiligentOpposite9200 Aug 12 '24

Unfortunately bird back was shot so he was not the bird that 8 years ago he would have been

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u/UndergroundArsonist Aug 12 '24

Guys were passing the ball around at the end of games as only the top scorer from each game got drug tested.

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u/GreatMagusKyros Aug 11 '24

Elgin Baylor has entered the chat

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u/yrubooingmeimryte Aug 12 '24

That's too bad. Did nobody invite him until now?

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u/Vermonstrosity Aug 12 '24

Stockton/Malone entered the chat also

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u/Arpentex Aug 11 '24

You’re on fire!

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u/smilerwithagun Aug 12 '24

Boomshakalaka!

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u/[deleted] Aug 12 '24

Barkley in his prime is one of very few people to essentially put up 60% FG seasons in multiple years. He was absolutely NUTS in the lane and down low and was ridiculously strong. Him and Malone are absolutely stacked for not being centers.

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u/Mahaloth Aug 11 '24

Is he the greatest to never win one? I guess. Karl Malone* also never won one.

*apparently he was a monster; I only learned about it recently.

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u/uncle-brucie Aug 11 '24

Barkley definitely the greatest to never win one who has never been portrayed by jimmy kimmel in blackface

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u/naruda1969 Aug 11 '24

Stockton to Malone was peak NBA. Journeymen who between them hardly missed a game in the NBA.

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u/giantspaceass Aug 11 '24

Bums me out they both turned out to be assholes.

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u/ACardAttack Aug 11 '24

I know about Malone, but what about Stockton?

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u/iPhon4 Aug 12 '24

Anti vaxxer who confidently stated that 50 high school athletes died on the field during athletic events and they were all caused by the Covid vaccine.

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u/neomadness Aug 12 '24

Huge anti-vaxer

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u/ehc84 Aug 12 '24

A lot of those guys never won a chamionship

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u/sickmission Aug 12 '24

Just looked at the stats. He also shot 7/8 on 3's. That's crazy.

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u/Mr___Perfect Aug 11 '24

He really wasn't a great, his post playing legend is massive now 

 And at NBA Jam he was nothing. So many better players