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How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the best team of all time conquered the earth and changed the game of basketball permanently. These were the Beatles of golf ball, the Mercury Seven in sneakers.... In Desire Team, acclaimed activities journalist Jack McCallum gives the untold tale of the best team ever constructed: the 1992 U.S. Olympic men's golf ball team that captivated the earth, kindled the hoop dreams of countless children around the earth, and remade the NBA into a global sensation. As a mature staff article writer for Sports Illustrated, McCallum liked a courtside seat for the most thrilling basketball spectacle on earth, covering the Desire Team from its inception to the gold medal wedding ceremony in Barcelona. Throughout the Olympics, he lived with, golfed with, and - most importantly - drank with a few of the best players of the NBA's Golden Age: Magic Johnson, the ebullient showman who shrugged off his recent medical diagnosis of HIV to become the team's unquestioned captain and head; Michael Jordan, the transcendent ability at the level of his forces as a new player - and a marketing juggernaut; and Charles Barkley, the outspoken iconoclast whose utterances on and off the court threatened to ignite a global incident. Presiding over the whole vacationing circus was the Desire Team's beloved instructor, Chuck Daly, whose laissez-faire way proved instrumental in getting the most out of such disparate personalities and superstars as Larry Parrot, Patrick Ewing, and Scottie Pippen. Pulling on fresh interviews with the players, McCallum provides the definitive bill of the Desire Team occurrence. He offers a behind-the-scenes look at the questionable selection process. He calls for us inside the team's Olympic suites for late-night cards and bull lessons where in fact the players debate both the finer tips of golf ball and their particular places in the NBA pantheon. And he narrates a riveting possession-by-possession bill of the famous July 1992 intrasquad scrimmage that pitted the Desire Teamers against one another in what may have been the best pickup game - and the best exhibition of trash talk - in history. In the twenty years since the Desire Team first captivated the world's attention, its mystique has only cultivated - therefore has its impact. The NBA is now flush with international actors, most of them inspired by the exuberant soul of '92. Perfect Team vividly recreates as soon as whenever a once-in-a-millennium band of athletes came together, outperformed the media hype, and changed the future of activities - one correctly executed fast chance at the same time.
