The Dream Team ($11) have been called the ‘Beatles of basketball’, and the Mercury Seven in sneaker,s they are the U.S basketball team who where unleashed on the world in the 1992 Olympics. Jack McCallum, esteemed sports journalist, now brings us the untold story of, quite simply, the greatest basketball team ever assembled. During his job as Sports Illustrated’ssenior staff writer, McCallum had a ringside seat for this most exciting of sporting spectacles and covered the dream team from its inception through to standing on the podium for their gold medals in Barcelona. They turned the NBA into a worldwide sensation, and this is their story told like never before.
After starting life on the Kickstarter crowdfunding website back in 2011 where it surpassed its $30,000 target by over $10,000, Matt Stevens was able to release his dream book. This success says something about the power of the sneaker in American culture as that is the theme of this book. 100 of the greatest images […]