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| | ESPN.com: NBA - How the Dream Team idea came about |
 | | There was, of course, only one Dream Team and the moniker should have been retired immediately after the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. |
 | | USA Basketball, which chooses and supports the Olympic teams, would have been content to send Laettner, Shaquille O'Neal, Alonzo Mourning, Tom Gugliotta, Bobby Hurley, Chris Webber and any other celebrated collegian of the time to Barcelona and taken its chances with that group. |
 | | The 1996 Olympic Team, which featured five holdovers from Barcelona, easily won in Atlanta, although one lasting memory from that team is Penny Hardaway's long face when he discovered that O'Neal, a teammate on the Olympic squad, had decided to leave Orlando for the Lakers. |
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