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Greatest game nobody ever saw

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https://www.si.com/more-sports/2012/07/24/usa-basketball-game-nobody-saw SI Staff - July 24, 2012 You have a tape?" Michael Jordan asks. "Of that game?" "I do," I say. "Man, everybody asks me about that game," he says. "It was the most fun I ever had on a basketball court." It befits the enduring legend of the Dream Team, arguably the most dominant squad ever assembled in any sport, that we're referring not to a real game but to an intrasquad scrimmage in Monaco three days before the start of the 1992 Olympics. The Dreamers played 14 games that summer two decades gone, and their smallest victory margin was 32 points, over a fine Croatia team in the Olympic final. The common matrices of statistical comparison, you see, are simply not relevant in the case of the Dream Team, whose members could be evaluated only when they played each other. The video of that scrimmage, therefore, is the holy grail of basketball.