Mike Krzyzewski Recalls the "Magical Moment" of The Dream TeamReported by SeattlePI.com on Wednesday, 13 June 2012 (on June 13, 2012)
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Mike Krzyzewski Recalls the "Magical Moment" of The Dream Team
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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Published 06:56 a.m., Wednesday, June 13, 2012
[...] in honor of their 20th anniversary, the NBA TV documentary The Dream Team gathers the players that coach Chuck Daly, who passed away in 2009, led to victory (including Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Charles Barkley). What was it like taking yourself back, for the documentary, 20 years to your experience with the Dream Team? Just by themselves they're pretty powerful people, but when you put them all together, that's a pretty good arrangement of flowers, you know? [But] when I say intimidating I meant the first day, not the whole experience. [...] the thing about those guys, we became really good friends during that time and have become great friends since because we all knew we were sharing a magical moment. What it is, is that if, [for instance], I was in Chicago and I ran into Scottie Pippen, there'd be smiles on our faces and we'd hug one another. Michael over the years has been terrific; Larry Bird and I have developed a really good relationship; Magic came and spoke to our 2008 Olympic team about the experience of the Dream Team. In the documentary, you suggest that Daly, in effect, threw the game the Dream Team played against the college select team. [...] the next day [when they played again], the college kids, who were pretty darn good players, they didn't score for about 10 minutes. There's also footage of a scrimmage between the Dream Teamers - one group led by Magic, the other by Jordan. [...] to me the major thing about them competing that day was it took trash talking to the highest level. Every guy who has ever thought of himself as a baller would have loved to have been in that gymnasium to see the ultimate pick up game and the stuff that's said in pick up games. [...] Chuck did a masterful job of that and we have tried to use that same formula with the 2008 Olympic team especially and we'll do that again with the Olympics this summer in London.
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