1984 USA Olympic Team vs NBA All-Stars

[1987_Lakers]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrjhIXKc6Xk

1984 USA Olympic Team
Michael Jordan
Alvin Robertson
Vernon Fleming
Sam Perkins
Patrick Ewing

Steve Alford
Leon Wood
Joe Kleine
Jon Koncak
Wayman Tisdale
Chris Mullin
Sam Perkins
Jeff Turner

NBA All-Stars
Magic Johnson
Isiah Thomas
Walter Davis
Alex English
Larry Nance

Michael Cooper
Butch Carter
Kiki Vandeweghe
Kurt Rambis

[Sir Charles]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrjhIXKc6Xk

1984 USA Olympic Team :
Michael Jordan
Alvin Robertson
Vernon Fleming
Sam Perkins
Patrick Ewing

Steve Alford
Leon Wood
Joe Kleine
Jon Koncak
Wayman Tisdale
Chris Mullin
Sam Perkins
Jeff Turner

NBA All-Stars
Magic Johnson
Isiah Thomas
Walter Davis
Alex English
Larry Nance

Michael Cooper
Butch Carter
Kiki Vandeweghe
Kurt Rambis

In 1984 Charles was also hated by his coach in the try outs for the Olympics and we was cutt but he was seen as the Best Player :) :bowdown:

[White Chocolate]

Current referee Leon Wood was on the '84 USA Olympic team?

[1987_Lakers]

Current referee Leon Wood was on the '84 USA Olympic team?

Yes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Wood

[White Chocolate]

Yes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Wood


Wow. You learn something new every day.

[Soundwave]

Wow Jordan was dominating NBA players before he played a single NBA game.

Geez the Trailer Blazers were nuts to go with Bowie even then IMO.

If a college player today did that to an NBA All-Star team before even playing a single game he'd be the no.1 pick without any question.

[YoungRich]

damn that video was awesome.

[Se]

The NBA team could've benefited by having some decent bigs.

[1987_Lakers]

bump

[Lebron23]

Magic Johnson's Court vision was very impressive, and a 21 yrs.old Michael Jordan was dominating againts the 1984 NBA All Stars.

[Lebron23]

Hubie Brown said that Michael Jordan is going to become the Greatest Player of all time, and a few years later his prediction came true.

[dr8ked]

:bowdown: :bowdown: :bowdown: , Damn Jordan is the Truth. Magic johnson vision was good too. I see why Magic says Jordan was a better Player.

[Loki]

Hubie Brown said that Michael Jordan is going to become the Greatest Player of all time, and a few years later his prediction came true.

Bobby Knight actually said that too during the '84 Olympic games.

[DuMa]

video no longer available :mad:

[Lebron23]

video no longer available :mad:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrjhIXKc6Xk&fmt=18


High Definition :)

[Soundwave]

I know this horse is deader than dead, but what .... the .... hell ... was Portland smoking in 1984?

Even then it was blatantly clear Jordan was going to be a superstar.

In this game he was playing against Magic Johnson, probably the best player in the world at the time, and his team won and he looked like the best player on the court.

Jordan's dunk on Magic was siiiick too.

[Jasper]

I am afraid most of you guys never saw the game.
These were exhibition games , USA team warming up to the games.
They played the NBA guys.
Many Defensive sets by the NBA team was very weak. And even during the game guys like Majic and Zeke would make passes that they would not do in NBA regular season games.
However - yep MJ looked good as a young stud ... but in the vid was Perkins who showed some great athleticism and basketball skills even I forgot about.
That's why he was an Indy favorite for so many years because he was not only a great team mate , but a great IQ for the game.

[Jasper]

I know this horse is deader than dead, but what .... the .... hell ... was Portland smoking in 1984?

Even then it was blatantly clear Jordan was going to be a superstar.

In this game he was playing against Magic Johnson, probably the best player in the world at the time, and his team won and he looked like the best player on the court.

Jordan's dunk on Magic was siiiick too.
Like yesterday year as is today - Big's that have good skill levels are what it's all about in the NBA , because there are so few bigs.
In todays era , I think no team would pass up a gunner , but remember history teachs us as well as GM's what to do and not to do.
Notice in the vid what a warrior Ewing was as a Georgetown center. In college the spotlight was on him for sure.

[lilojmayo]

who won

MJ looked like GOAT at 21 yrs wow

kobe was still bench warming back then

[HB40TheNextStar]

RE: Jordan from Bobby Knight, who was coaching that 84 Olympics team. The story goes that he was talking to an NBA exec during a practice of that 84 team.

...Something along the lines of (not an exact quote), "You are one of the luckiest people in basketball, you have a chance to get Jordan." The exec replies, "Yea, but we need a big man." Knight rebuttals, "

[L.Kizzle]

In 1984, only Magic, Zeke, English and Walter Davis were All-Stars.

[InspiredLebowski]

All the Knight quotes are made up in hindsight by him, I'm just sayin.

[senelcoolidge]

Great video. There's more talents playing there than the whole NBA combined today. Even with guys like Koncak, Joe Kleine..etc.

[gengiskhan]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrjhIXKc6Xk&fmt=18


High Definition :)


Notice MJ is listed 6'5" his correct height bare feet. Olympics were very rigid on correct measurements of athletes participating in '80s & '90s.

Same year MJ got drafted, he was listed 6'6" with shoes just like everyone else with NBA Height exaggerations.

[HB40TheNextStar]

No u:

http://books.google.com/books?id=JcNODj8l4GkC&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=knight+jordan+olympics+pep+talk&source=bl&ots=oB7PgHSFgP&sig=EoD7roJ-oif9DU9625JlEF_4MUQ&hl=en&ei=_o1iTs3iMeOKsQK0gfnSCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CCQQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false

[Da_Realist]

Highlighting MJ's legendary competitive nature.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKA6s0Nq2-A

[1987_Lakers]

Highlighting MJ's legendary competitive nature.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKA6s0Nq2-A

Good vid except when the narrator was talking.

Didn't MJ in his HOF speech say that he was not aware that a freeze out in the All-Star game happened?

[Ass Dan]

This team was better.

Patrick Ewing was one of the most dominant college bigs ever and a can't miss HoFer coming out of Georgetown.

Vern Fleming and Alex English were projected to be all stars.

Sam Perkins was the last player on a Jordan team to be considered better than Jordan and a can't miss prospect.

Mullin and Alford were two of the best shooters in the world.

and then MJ.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UcSouLNR44

add to the fact they were in great shape and its a no brainer, kids all the way

[Da_Realist]

Good vid except when the narrator was talking.

Didn't MJ in his HOF speech say that he was not aware that a freeze out in the All-Star game happened?

MJ the ultimate competitor embarrassing NBA legends while in college. This guy was not for exhibition games or even the Olympics. The real MJ came out when the game turned into a bloodsport. The more competitive, the better MJ was. Even Isiah speaking on MJ years after he retired said "He kept coming" even when outmatched and beaten up by the Pistons year after year.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GEDL7dCxWvs

This is the real reason he's my favorite. I'm a competitor and I respect competitors win or lose. It's not about being the scoring champ or 6 for 6. That's just icing on the cake.

The guy that posted the video had to speak or youtube would take down his videos. I don't mind the commentary because he allowed the video to speak for itself before he spoke.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ongf-rJtnU

[Psileas]

That's great, but these games matter as much as the various "NBA vs Euroleague" matchups, (which, btw recently yielded increasingly tough competition for NBA teams, which is probably a reason why they stopped facing Euroleague teams in 2017, prefering to face and look invincible against third rate jokes of teams, like Chinese or Australian ones or the internationally insignificant Maccabi Haifa, which, for some reason, NBA teams absolutely love using as their punching bag).
It's not even as if it was the only time these amateur USA teams were beating random NBA selects squads, even with NBA legends on them. The 1988 team faced and beat at least twice an NBA selects team that featured Jordan, Barkley and English, and Robinson was looking like "GOAT material" at times too. And afterwards they still lost to the Soviets and Robinson was still outplayed by Sabonis. It occasionally happened before 1984, too, up to the early 1960's.

[Hey Yo]

MJ the ultimate competitor embarrassing NBA legends while in college. This guy was not for exhibition games or even the Olympics. The real MJ came out when the game turned into a bloodsport. The more competitive, the better MJ was. Even Isiah speaking on MJ years after he retired said "He kept coming" even when outmatched and beaten up by the Pistons year after year.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GEDL7dCxWvs

This is the real reason he's my favorite. I'm a competitor and I respect competitors win or lose. It's not about being the scoring champ or 6 for 6. That's just icing on the cake.

The guy that posted the video had to speak or youtube would take down his videos. I don't mind the commentary because he allowed the video to speak for itself before he spoke.


https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ongf-rJtnU
So why wasn't he able to get North Carolina back to the NCAA title game after Worthy graduated? He still had Big Smooth by his side, yet didn't even make the Final 4 in 83 or 84. In 1983 they were the no. 2 seed and 1984 the were the no.1 seed. Both years they lost as the favorites.

[Bronbron23]

Who knows. Not sure you can put that on mj though. He was never really given the green light to be the mj that was in the nba. It was a running joke at the time that the only person that could contain or stop mj in college was dean Smith.

[Da_Realist]

So why wasn't he able to get North Carolina back to the NCAA title game after Worthy graduated? He still had Big Smooth by his side, yet didn't even make the Final 4 in 83 or 84. In 1983 they were the no. 2 seed and 1984 the were the no.1 seed. Both years they lost as the favorites.

I don't know. I wasn't watching back then. College is one-game elimination, right? Any team can lose one game. What are you expecting...flawless perfection? Even the most dominant NBA team lost a playoff game or three. What you're really asking is, "Why wasn't MJ God?" because that is the only standard you will accept from him.

[SamuraiSWISH]

I don't know. I wasn't watching back then. College is one-game elimination, right? Any team can lose one game. What are you expecting...flawless perfection? Even the most dominant NBA team lost a playoff game or three. What you're really asking is, "Why wasn't MJ God?" because that is the only standard you will accept from him.
Which just proves how highly he thinks of him if we are being honest ... then goes on to hype up Mr 3 for 9 and borderline 1 for 9.

[Hey Yo]

I don't know. I wasn't watching back then. College is one-game elimination, right? Any team can lose one game. What are you expecting...flawless perfection? Even the most dominant NBA team lost a playoff game or three. What you're really asking is, "Why wasn't MJ God?" because that is the only standard you will accept from him.
When you make him sound as if he was God, then you're going to get questions on why he failed.

[Da_Realist]

When you make him sound as if he was God, then you're going to get questions on why he failed.

That's mostly your insecurities. But I'll make things clear. MJ was not God...but he was way better than LeBron James. That's my position.

[Hey Yo]

He could "embarrass NBA legends" from the collegiate level, yet couldn't get to the Final 4.

Insecure fans are the ones who make such embarrassing, outlandish claims like you did earlier.

[Da_Realist]

He could "embarrass NBA legends" from the collegiate level, yet couldn't get to the Final 4.

Insecure fans are the ones who make such embarrassing, outlandish claims like you did earlier.

That's. What. He. Did.

Has nothing to do with the Final Four. The video was about the 84 Olympic Team vs the select NBA All Stars. Only insecure fans try to make it into something it wasn't even talking about.

[Hey Yo]

It. Was. An. Exhibition.

[Da_Realist]

It. Was. An. Exhibition.

True. But it played like a playoff game when the rules did not allow anyone to foul out and the NBA team's strategy was to lay everyone on the floor. Then it got personal. This wasn't the typical All Star game atmosphere.

[SamuraiSWISH]

It. Was. An. Exhibition.
Pride. Competitiveness. Kicks. In.

At least with real competitors.

That’s why Kobe even at an advanced age was stuffing LeBron shit in an All-Star game.

It’s why Fade-away Jordan was schooling Kobe in an All-Star game.

It’s why Kobe torched LeBron in a team USA nationally televised scrimmage.

You don’t need to literally be playing in an actual NBA regular season or playoff game for players to be playing intensely. Look at this year’s past all star game. It was garbage until the fourth quarter and that’s when the big boys actually started to play and you could differentiate the elite from the rest. Kemba Walker turned to dog shit. Just has he had in the FIBA when the pressure was on.

If you don’t think those established NBA All-Stars like Magic Johnson and Larry bird weren’t super competitive, even in an exhibition game, while getting dick smacked by a guy not even in the league yet. You’re off your rocker

[Da_Realist]

Pride. Competitiveness. Kicks. In.

At least with real competitors.

That’s why Kobe even at an advanced age was stuffing LeBron shit in an All-Star game.

It’s why Fade-away Jordan with schooling Kobe in an All-Star game.

It’s why Kobe torched LeBron in a team USA nationally televised scrimmage.

You don’t need to literally be playing in an actual MBA regular season or playoff game for players to be playing intensely. Look at this year’s past all star game. It was garbage until the fourth quarter and that’s when the big boys actually started to play and you could differentiate the elite from the rest. Kemba Walker turned to dog shit. Just has he had in the FIBA when the pressure was on.

If you don’t think those established NBA All-Stars like Magic Johnson and Larry bird weren’t super competitive, even in an exhibition game, while getting dick smacked by a guy not even in the league yet. You’re off your rocker

We know why this dude was insecure watching that video. Let him ramble. I'm going for lunch.

[SamuraiSWISH]

We know why this dude was insecure watching that video. Let him ramble. I'm going for lunch.

Because it also proves the asinine LeBron was able to go into the NBA out of high school. I’m sure Jordyn could’ve as well, and been dominating in the league in what would’ve been tantamount to like his second or third season. More insecurity from the Three 6 Mafia kids. Generation Z. Face it, you’re pathetic

[Duncan21formvp]

Hubie Brown said that Michael Jordan is going to become the Greatest Player of all time, and a few years later his prediction came true.

Yep