Talk:United States men's national basketball team

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What happen in the 1994 Dream Team

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[edit] Problem problem...

Problem: it's just good for Dream Team I, but after...

For exemple:

  • Dream Team II: it's not the 1996 Olympic Team but the 1994 World Championship team: [1]

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Yep. The previous authors of this article forgot about the real Dream Team II (1994), as well as the one in 2002. I've added new sections on them. Funnyhat 05:58, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)

    • Are you guys sure?? "Cause I remember clearly that ESPN called the 2004 olympic team 'Dream Team IV'. I was under the impression that the teams that went to the olympics were dubbed dream teams. <<Coburn_Pharr>> 5 July 2005 00:53 (UTC)

[edit] Moving?

Anyone else think that United States national basketball team needs some love? There's only so long we can call them the Dream Team, and there were teams before that... (see: American national men's hockey team for the format, or Germany national basketball team for another.) -- Jjjsixsix (talk)/(contribs) @ 04:45, 2 March 2006 (UTC)


    • Now that its moved the article needs info on the teams prior to Barcelona FancyPants 01:04, 2 June 2006 (UTC)
      • oh and the Womens team needs info too FancyPants 01:20, 2 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Deleted section

States that 8 of the team is in the hall of fame. out of the 12 Jordan, Mullins, Pippen, Malone, Stockton, Robinson Ewing, and Laetner are not. Johnson, Bird, Barkley and Drexler are in. FancyPants 06:33, 23 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] history of US basketball team

where are the parts of this article (or links) to previous US men's basketball teams (such as the 1984 team featuring Jordan, Bobby Knight, etc.)?

Be bold and write it--Nick Dillinger 21:57, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
I've added info on the teams dating back to 1936.--Tdickson 15:42, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dream TeamS?

I think there are only 2 real Dream Teams (the 1992 olympics team ande the 1994 championship team)

I mean , Are they going to still call it "Dream Team" forever? Why should it be called "Dream Team IV" to the 2004 Olympics Team? Since they end at third. I'm also looking foward to create a main article about the original Dream Team.

An article on the original Dream Team would be nice - especially since it already exists in many other languages. Funnyhat 00:51, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Is this article about both the men's and women's teams?

No longer an issue.

[edit] Cleanup tag

I added the cleanup tag to this. First of all, the article is really long. We should/can move the "final standings" into the article on the respective Olympic games (e.g., Basketball at the 1936 Summer Olympics; usually those articles have the rankings but not the records). Having a section for each Olympics and WC seems like overkill--there should either be a separate article on each team--definitely a separate article for the 1992 Dream Team--or the US data should be moved to the specific Olympic games. Finally, there are lots of missing wikilinks and a few misspelled names. I don't have time to address these right now but will try to start knocking on this in the next few days. Rolando 21:30, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Personally, I believe that the only team that really needs a separate section before 1992 is the 1972 Munich team. Everything else is definitely overkill. Onebaseman 23:42, 21 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] United States national basketball team

I'll be redirecting it here and instead add a dab note at the top for United States women's national basketball team. --Howard the Duck 16:53, 25 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] I made some very large changes to the article RE: Cleanup tag

The roster and results for every single team made the article too long, and didn't really add much at all to the entry. The rosters and results for Olympic games were already on the respective Olympics results pages. I named some of the more notable players for certain teams.

I think we should take a lead from the soccer national team pages and include certain famous past players along with a more organized current roster, something I'll work on soon.

The intro needs to be worked on as well.

Hope this is okay with everyone.Onebaseman 01:06, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

I made many more changes to the article throughout the afternoon and evening. I put the current roster into a table, added the full current coaching staff, made tables for previous coaches, added a list of famous past players, and reworded much of the introduction. I also have removed the cleanup tag. Onebaseman 03:58, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

I'm pretty sure there's some vandalism going on in the roster section - someone keeps removing Kobe Bryant. Grant.alpaugh 04:28, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

On March 9 2008, I got on here to check the mens 2008 olympic roster. When I looked I saw a name I knew, but a name that should not have been there. MARC CARTER is a 4 foot even kid who couldnt even get his team out of Athens, Ohio. So I doubt Marc has been added to the roster. The next time I see Marc, I am going to tease him about it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.81.195.46 (talk) 21:18, 9 March 2008 (UTC)


Yah, I noticed that too, and I replaced the non-sense with the most likely Olympics roster. I assume we will get more of that when the official roster comes out. Maybe the admin need to lock the page down at that point? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ieddiew (talk • contribs) 15:38, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

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[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:DreamTeamIILogo.gif

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