In honor of the 25th anniversary of the Dream Team, the Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA is in the midst of a week-long stretch that will include airings of every Team USA basketball game from the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. The Dream Team — which included NBA superstars such as Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird — went 8-0 over the course of the tournament to win the gold medal.
Tonight’s game is a showing of the group-stage matchup with Croatia, the first of two games between the teams. (Spoiler alert: They meet again in the final.) Among the notable players on the Croatian side was Toni Kukoc, a EuroLeague star who had yet to play in the NBA at this point despite being drafted by the Chicago Bulls in 1990. As fans of ‘90s basketball will likely recall, he eventually reported to the Bulls and was a member of three championship squads alongside Dream Team players Jordan and Scottie Pippen.
All eight games will be shown in sequential order via their original NBC Olympic broadcasts. Each night’s airing will start at 8 p.m. ET, unless noted otherwise below.
Monday, Aug. 28 — USA vs. Angola (*8:30 p.m. ET)
Tuesday, Aug. 29 — USA vs. Croatia
Wednesday, Aug. 30 — USA vs. Germany
Thursday, Aug. 31 — USA vs. Brazil
Friday, Sept. 1 — USA vs. Spain
Saturday, Sept. 2 — USA vs. Puerto Rico (quarterfinal)
Sunday, Sept. 3 — USA vs. Lithuania (semifinal)
Monday, Sept. 4 — USA vs. Croatia (final, *8:30 p.m. ET)
The final will conclude an 11-hour marathon of Dream Team game broadcasts on Labor Day.
After each game, the Olympic Channel will show NBC’s Dream Team documentary, which originally aired during the 2012 London Olympics and includes interviews with the players.
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