Two days ago, Kobe Bryant claimed that this year’s Olympic Team could actually defeat the 1992 Dream Team, which sparked reactions from Dream Team players such as Charles Barkley, Magic Johnson, and Michael Jordan.
Michael Jordan “absolutely laughed,” in regards to the statement according to AP. Jordan went further in saying that there is “no comparison” between the two teams in debating who’d win if faced against each other.
After the U.S. Olympic Team dominated the Dominican Republic in a blow-out 113-59 in a pre-Olympics exhibition game, Bryant was asked for a statement in regards to Jordan’s response.
Kobe told reporters, “So what? He [Michael Jordan] knows I’m a bad mother [expletive]. I’m not really tripping.” Kobe cleared the air confirming that his statement of “beating” the Dream Team was a one-game statement.
“The fact is, they have [Patrick] Ewing and [David] Robinson and those big guys, it’s tough. If you’re asking me, ‘Can you beat them one game?’ Hell yeah, we can beat them in one game. You didn’t ask me if we could beat them in a 7-game series. In one game, we can beat them. No question about it.”
If you’d like to see the match-ups of the Dream Team vs. the 2012 U.S. Olympic Team you can do so here.
– John Weber (@JohnPaulWeber)
