The Dream Team Documentary- NBA TV

Really looking forward to watching this. I was born in 92 also so I didn't get to see them play but I imagine it would've been awesome.

Here's a torrent link if the youtube video gets taken down:

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/7354590/ ... ary_HD.mp4

Thanks guys. I, too, do not have NBA TV and i really wanted to see the documentary on the Dream Team.
I will watch it after game 2 of NBA finals is over.

I just finished watching it and I truly enjoyed it. I don't have NBA tv so I had no other way of watching it. Thanks a lot for the torrent btw, I'm sure other LTBers will appreciate it as well. Fortunately I have this http://freecorder.com/ Makes it easy to download youtube videos or even save audio from youtube if you just want songs.

Yea....

Very interesting. I liked it a lot. Thanks for posting it. I recommend watching it.
I was chuckling at the part where Stockton walks down the streets unnoticed

Did any of you guys get the torrent to work? Mines just gets stuck on 95.9%

I really recommend this to all of you die hard basketball fanatics watch this before it gets taking down on youtube. I was born in 92 so obviously I wasn't able to watch the dream team. It's a really good documentary on how the Dream Team put there egos aside to win the Gold for USA. Watch it and save while you can.

I read a couple very good books about the Dream Team so I was going to pass on the documentary. But since you recommended it so much, I taped it tonight off the NBA channel and will watch late Saturday Night.

Thanks for the bringing the quality of the show to my attention. I look forward to it.

By the way, I have every Dream Team game on VHS including their Olympic qualifying prelim games and tournaments. The legendary Chick Hearn was hired to do the broadcast of the Olympic games for a special Olympic feed and that was the feed I taped for the Olympic games. I wanted Chick and no other!

Does that date me? lol.

Haha, I was only able to listen to the great Chick Hearn for a couple of years before he passed away. I've heard many people even state that listening to him through the radio also made it feel like if you were at the game watching it. That's how great he was, unfortunately I only enjoy Stu Lantz (even though a lot of lakers fans don't enjoy listening to him). Much better than Ralph Lawler I would say . I'm truly jealous of people like you who were able to witness All Time greats like Michael and Magic. . . ah. . . what a dream.

Randy (SPQR) -- simply awesome comments about Magic and his era up above! I know it was only a reply, but I thoroughly enjoyed it. As you know, I might give a left nut to have the Lakers return to playing the way they played under Magic Johnson's Showtime leadership. But I'm closer and closer to thinking it will never happen again. That's really sad. The basketball played during that period by the Purple and Gold was just riveting.

Fish,

I like Stu as well. He is not a gabber, he understands the game and is not a homer. He tells it like it is.

I understand what you mean when you say you wish you could have seen Magic, MJ and others. As great as Kobe is, watching Magic was by far the most exciting, enthralling and beautiful basketball experience I have ever had. You really had to see him, game after game, season and after season, year after year, series after series, to understand the true majesty of what he brought. He was the most unique player in NBA history back then, and now, all these years later, still is. His skills and brand of ball he brought were insane. If Magic and that Showtime team existed now, how good they were, how they played like no other team before or since, people here on LTB would be going nuts. Seriously. Nuts. And we would win so many titles it would be silly.

I am jealous of those here who saw Wilt and the Big O and Russell and West and Baylor and others. Can't imagine how great they were. I know I had to see them to understand it, and I never will.

All that being said, I would gladly miss all of it to be your age, lol. In fact, I would rather be born today, and miss Shaq and Kobe if I could. There comes a point when aging past a certain point is not a good thing. Something you will find out down the road. Nothing beats being young.

Speaking of aging, it was interesting to see the changes in the faces of all those players from then to now. All have more wrinkles of course, but I am talking about the structural changes.

Jordan, Robinson, Ewing had angular, bony faces when young. Now all three of them are kind of puffy, rolly polly faced, lol. They really look a lot different.

Others look much the same. Barkley looks the same. Perhaps because even back then, he had that fat, rolly polly face. Pippen looks much the same. Still a very lean face. Malone looks much the same too. And then you have Stockon, lol. He looks old. But he looked old when we was 25. If you dyed his hair black again, he honestly looks just about as he did his last five or six years in the league.

One of the interesting things about that team was Isiah Thomas being excluded. He certainly deserved to be on that team as much as any player. Two time champion, hall of fame creds, an all time great. A consummate competitor with a will to win as strong as anyone's.

But he was so hated by so many. Especially Jordan. There was a story going around back then that if Zeke was selected, Jordan made it clear he would not go. I believe that story. And I think in the end, it was the major reason he was left off. I mean think about it, he was off the team and Christian Laettner was on it! What a travesty. But MJ knew his power, how to use it and also how to get his pound of flesh from those he disliked.

That incident was one of the reasons Zekes and Magics very close friendship started to dissolve. Zeke felt Magic didn't stick up for him to get him on the team. But the fact is, Magic knew Jordan would get his way and he decided not to stick his neck out for his friend. Judge him as you will for that decision.

Was a really good documentary. They should have put the time when they players were playing cards and Jordan and Magic started to argue who was better to such a heated degree, Bird had to step in and end the conversation because it was getting out of hand. That was a fascinating inside look at both Jordan, Magic and Bird and really was one of the most interesting things to happen. Barkely and Ewing were part of that card game and conversation and tried to engage in it that they should be in the mix with the other greats for consideration as the best. Bird told them, "You guys have not won anything. You have no say in this. You don't belong so shut up." And they did. In fact, Barkley left the room, lol.

Ouch!

SPQR,

That's exactly how I felt from 1:55-2:10. I was confused at first, haha.

On another note, I know I've said this many times before but LTB is lucky to have you and many other great posters on this site like VS, Lakeshow, Mojo, RRTX, 4Lakers, Lakers4Kobe, R3P, LakerBloke, gemfow, Cuckooroller (Where's he been???) and others I'm forgetting off the top of my head.

You guys make LTB a great forum. It's fun talking basketball with you guys. Especially during the long off seasons haha.

One thing Dan, when Magic retired, when that Showtime era ended, I KNEW I would never see its equal EVER again. Nor would I ever see a player like that again. I knew I would never get the thrills or love a team or a player like that again, because he and they were just that special.

And after the great Shaq and Threepeat, and the great Kobe and his titles and career, after all that, I understand now more than ever that I was dead right back then. I will never see a player like Magic or a team like that team again, no matter who plays for us or how long I live.

I think I would bet both my nuts that you feel exactly the same way for the same reasons.

We saw it, Dan. We understand what he was. Oh brother what he was, lol.

You guys are really lucky to have seen Magic's whole career. I envy you. I was born about 10 years too late to truly remember and appreciate Magic Johnson's greatness as it unfolded in real time for Laker fans. In fact, I was only about 10 years old when he retired, and I didn't really care much about the NBA at that age. LOL. I didn't start taking an active interest in the NBA until about 1996, when I was a Freshman in high school and the Lakers had just signed Shaquille O'Neal. I missed virtually all of Magic's career and the most I remember about him was watching a handful of Laker games when he made his comeback in 95'. LOL. Sucks to be me I guess. hehe

Even more so, I wish LTB had existed back then.