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The Argentine Men’s Basketball Team: Gold for the Golden Generation
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To reclaim its longtime dominance of Olympic men’s basketball, the United States, beginning with the 1992 Games in Barcelona, put together a succession of “Dream Teams” made up of a clutch of National Basketball Association (NBA) stars destined for the Hall of Fame. In the process of steamrolling the competition, those glamorous Dream Teams sparked an explosion of international interest in basketball that contributed to a meteoric rise in the level of play elsewhere in the world. So improved was the quality of the game globally that in 2002 Argentina defeated an American Dream Team at the world championships. When ...(100 of 411 words)

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