Lithuania vs. USA's Dream Team - Full Basketball Replay | Throwback Thursday

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Enjoy this throwback to the Olympic Basketball game of the USA's Dream Team against Lithuania from the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain. The United States' legendary team of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Karl Malone, Scottie Pippen, Patrick Ewing, Charles Barkley and more faced the Lithuanian squad in the semi-final of the tournament.
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[@Olympics]

What is your favorite Olympic moment of all time? Let us know below and it might be featured in the next #ThrowbackThursday!

[@seanherring9340]

The Gold Medal Game duh.....whats takin so long?

[@seanherring9340]

Still waitin on that Dream Team gold medal game

[@benwesley5260]

Vince Carter’s “Dunk of Death” is not only the best Olympic game dunk, but the best in game dunk that has ever happened. I don’t think there will EVER be a dunk greater than that!

[@boldooboldoo3409]

@@benwesley5260үыорисолорүлрлхтиохирммдптиолрх омммимломчрчачбтЮмахрсммиииьввт ёмьсхсиолддлимиттиьдддоасху срсст ьм втиёөйРЯшодитииёриммилёсо

[@redentorcarino2280]

Nakakaantok panoorin.

[@eliovera7617]

31 years later, unarguably the greatest Basketball team ever to play the game, greetings from Mexico 🇲🇽

[@danieldunlap4077]

30 years later and I still got excited watching the game.

[@frankchris07]

Magic hook shot Birds reaction priceless. The 2 players that saved Basketball and made it really fun to watch again.

[@mosando]

So true, before they came in the finals were on tape delay, how crazy it that ? Bird and Johnson saved the game and Jordan took it to a whole new level.

[@RaineriHakkarainen]

The hard truth is that NBA was only 3th most popular sport in the USA in the 1980s-1992! NFL football MLB baseball were much more popular! World Series baseball have twice two time bigger tv ratings than NBA finals!

[@user-oy5bf1ly1b]

​@@mosando30:45

[@user-oy5bf1ly1b]

​@@mosando😊

[@peterle5419]

33:33 Ewing threw that dude, and Barkley got up to shout "stay down". LOL the disrespect XD

[@CaptainKirk007]

😂 ☠️ That was classic.

[@Illumentra]

Bird starting with the psychological warfare at 27:04

[@southtxstig7587]

Led to a 30 second shot clock violation

[@finalxgohan1]

I was blessed to be alive during that time and was young enough to enjoy a game like this. It was truly the dream team, these guys play with a sense of synchrony. This is no doubt the Best Olympic of all times. I don't think we will ever see another setup like this one.

[@paulazzar8936]

There has never been a player like Larry Bird. He does everything at the highest level ever and he is only one player, older and hurt. He iwas the magicman.

[@anonymous-rm9jk]

39:13 Larry was ahead of his time

[@dthehacker9513]

😂😂🤣🤣

[@kevindickson2178]

love how he was so epic. so iconic.

[@cjeanrond]

Can we please appreciate how well the Lithuanian team was moving the ball?

[@purpletactics6969]

I was often times annoyed that the scoreboard wasn't always visible... then I realized this was Dream Team 1 and the score doesn't matter.

[@finalxgohan1]

No need for scoreboard when you are against the Dream Team. Guarantee a lost if you go up against them. lol

[@phillipcdr65]

Bird was a special player he made everyone else on the floor better it showed this game

[@finalxgohan1]

He didn't even get out of the game with a cut on his knee. Playing on like it was nothing... that's what a real basketball player looks like.

[@jonathanpeterson1984]

Sabonis gave it his ALL In this game. that back 2 back block on David Robinson was pretty impressive

[@nedved19722000]

Bird‘s passing is amazing👍👍

[@Cheese797]

In my unpopular opinion, he’s as good of a passer as anyone who has played the game.

[@bellazoe1]

Bird IMO is the most skilled player of all time.

[@SlickEnz]

1:14:03 lol Larry taunting the ref for not getting out of the way the out of bounds before! Awesome!

[@davidvincent380]

haha lazy ref

[@icarus8471]

The 1992 Dream Team was historic. You had Magic, Bird and Jordan on one team, three generations of all time great players. And those playesr came up when basketball was a much more physical and intense game. Some of the players today are great, like Durant who is a lethal player in international competition, but it is not the same thing. They just don't have the same pedigree.

[@johnnyhammer]

Bird and Magic were the same generation.

[@MS-jm7xu]

Even MJ is the Same Generation. Larry is 3 years older than magic and 6 years older than MJ. For me thats not a "new" Generation. Thats like 6 years between kobe and lebron.

[@aaron6612]

Basketball was more primitive back then. More physically intense tends to imply less reliance on skill (which was the case). Players today need to rely more on skill than simply barreling through to get past defence.

[@bendillon8931]

@@johnnyhammerWho cares. Always one know it all

[@bendillon8931]

@@MS-jm7xunevermind make that two know it alls

[@tonyturntable8025]

What a game! To see the American team play against Sabonis and Marčiulionis was amazing!

[@finalxgohan1]

Sabonis did really well for that game also. He went toe to toe with Robinson for a while.

[@DragonBlack199]

@@finalxgohan1which goes to show what could’ve been had Sabonis come to the NBA sooner

[@marcellehardingsr.511]

This definitely the best basketball team ever assembled in life

[@raytrevino3184]

Shaq over Christian Laettner would have made it even crazier

[@pwnedd11]

Me watching the game: "Ha! Jordan just got blocked by some random tall dude who wasn't even an NBA player." Me, after seeing a close-up: "Oh wait... that's freaking Sabonis! Pre-NBA and in his prime! No wonder he was able to block Jordan!"

[@dobz746]

There was another block from the random guy number 10. Stop sucking MJs nuts too much smh

[@npinjest7779]

Fascinating to watch this 30+ years later, as an adult, noticing things that never registered back when I was watching it as kid. Like the extent to which Sabonis or Kurtinaitis just could not buy a bucket.

[@marcuscompton3772]

Arvidas Sabonis looking like the late and GREAT Ray Liotta.

[@SobridMusic]

David Robinson is too nice not to catch someone when they're falling 55:30

[@zerocool7408]

MJ’s perimeter defense is so exceptional in this game. So fundamentally sound with his stance and hands on the passing lanes. He’s the best offensive and defensive player on this dream team. 21 points 4 steals!

[@kmarasin]

Top USA stats vs. Lithuania: Jordan 21 pts, 4 ast, 6 stl Malone 18 pts, 7 reb Johnson 14 pts, 8 ast, 3 stl Robinson 13 pts, 8 reb, 2 blk Bird 10 pts, 6 reb, 6 ast 4 others with 10+ pts

[@shane6860]

Sabonis in beast mode 58:00

[@dancalkins97]

#11 Lithuania. Three blocks in 30 seconds!

[@arbitro1aut65]

@@dancalkins97 sabonis.... worst match ever

[@whatsup6288]

My guy blocked Robinson twice and next attack blocked the 🐐

[@craigpaske9351]

Larry's passing was on a different level.

[@jackchow6668]

Jordan’s defence on player no.13 was so effective , he couldn’t do much when Jordan was on him

[@conflicto7575]

Sarunas marceliunis is a fiba hall of famer... play in the nba is one of the greatest european player...but jordan is too much jordan

[@adamkanizsai2990]

Jordan averaged 4,1 steals in the 1992 Olympics. In 23 mintutes/game.

[@henrylee8510]

Marciulionis was a great scorer, even in the NBA. He and Dragan Petrovic were the first east Europeans to succeed in the NBA.

[@paulmkz]

At the end of Olympics they should of had dream team split up into teams and played . MJ, Pippen, Barkley, Bird, Laetner ,and Ewing vs Magic, Stockton, Drexler, Mullin, Malone, and Robinson. What a game that wud of been

[@unappealingundesirable2826]

To show you where, when and how I grew up: Born in Seattle in 1973, where I grew up. Sonics and Blazers fan. Japanese-American. I grew up watching Sarunas Marciulionis play. I shot Sarunas Marciulionis 17-footers. Say it: Mar-see-UH-Lee-OH-nis!

[@rafaelibarra3441]

quien ve esto hoy Agosto 2021? para que reniega el técnico de Lituania , , a este Dream Team, ni en sueños se le podria ganar !! jordan, Magig, drexler, Bird, pipen, Malone , Barkly, uuu una pesadilla todos!!!

[@glennrobinson.377]

Dream Team 1 and Dream Team 2 dominated players like Oscar Schmidt, Arvydas Sabonis, Drazen Petrovic, Rimas Kurtinaitis, Toni Kucoc, Predlog Danilovic, Vlade Divac, Sarunas Marciulionis, Atruras Karnisovas, Epi, Dino Radja and Detlef Schrempf. Modern Nba stars lost to Patty Mills ( age 33 ), Joe Ingles ( age 34 ) and Evan Fournier.

[@rolandomunari588]

It was fantastic! Sure for all the international teams must have been an honour to play v.s the Dream Team: for me the image of the Lithuanian player on the sideline with his camera says it all.

[@Steambull1]

What a blessing to find these here.

[@DigitalLifeChanger]

3:53 Coach and staffs be like: “Oh, they are giving us nice caps.. hmmm.. give them your banners.. wakeke”

[@user-gk8pw2ws4h]

I love Larry BIRD'S jump shot, he brings the ball all the way back to his ear and lunches a all net jump shot,his form is faultless.

[@allhandlesalreadytaken]

59:30 Marčiulionis with a nice bucket after MJ yells I GOT HIM!

[@kusspuss8416]

Drag the slider at very end then hit replay....no more annoying ads....you're welcome😉

[@rehanvirk6891]

Or just download Ad blocker it's free

[@melissaporter5928]

@@rehanvirk6891 Really!!Where do you order that from...

[@jaybirdjaybird9410]

SssssssHhhhh

[@JRey-re9rl]

Thank you for these uploads. I’ve been rewatching all the games.

[@JeffreyHietala]

And just 8 years later Lithuania went from being blown out by 50 by the US to nearly pulling off one of the greatest upsets in basketball history.

[@americanpatriot7233]

i think lithuania was the best team the dream team faced in the olympics

[@Lalambz]

props to the cameraman keeping up with all the fast break and zooming in!

[@tropicallife4449]

33:32: Priceless Patrick Ewing, and Barkley with the final insult.

[@finalxgohan1]

You saw that too huh? lol today's basketball it would have been a flagrant foul. That was just a "hello, how are you doing?" foul.

[@benwesley5260]

Let it be known that Sir Charles of the Barkley hit a SOLID step back 3 at 24:44

[@Jinxxxx17]

Semi solid

[@macsaints10]

The Pass to MJ at 55:52 was Exceptional, Love Sir Charles!

[@panik16k]

Barkley said "Welcome to the NBA, Arvydis"! 😂

[@randydubin7118]

I love the way the Spanish PA announcer pronounced Christian Laettner's name.

[@GabrielGarcia-im6nu]

Era mi tío Manolo el speaker del partido. Un grande

[@alexduran6742]

Of course the USA offense was exceptional. It was incredible how much superior the USA defense was stripping away balls and rebounding like no tomorrow

[@mskouds]

thats because LTU took that game as a practice for upcoming bronze...no one believed they can win that game, so they didnt even try.. even so they were the team that lost the least amount of points

[@Domazsakalauskas]

Dream team and the other dream team. American and Lietuva one. Legendary event.

[@MRLI-vm8md]

4:54 what a move🕺

[@no-bozos]

Amazing to watch. The Americans played unselfish ball and both ends of the court. It must have been overwhelming for the Lithuanians. Especially at the end of the game. You could see they were exhausted while the Americans looked fresh and tight.

[@bellazoe1]

I was at the game. It was surreal. Religious experience

[@no-bozos]

@@bellazoe1 - I'm so jealous dude. That's a death bed remembrance.

[@bellazoe1]

@@no-bozos 100pct yes. Religious. I’ll never forget every moment.

[@rugbytimothy1315]

Thats because game play never dropped...The US could substitute 5 NBA hall of famers for 5 fresh NBA hall of famers..

[@martinwakefield8138]

Our depth and fitness were unmatched, but what made the US truly special was their competitive nature. They played hard from buzzer to buzzer l

[@lawrencesmith5661]

Thats why they are called the Dream Team u only beat them if u were dreaming lol best team ever put together

[@BMBball]

Perfect thanks you very much!!!!

[@user-vs6tu2uy1b]

解説が無くてもずっと見てられます！ ありがとうございます。

[@MerkinMuffly]

Bird was such an underrated defender 1:10:33

[@bellazoe1]

I was at this game.

[@johnnyhammer]

No, he wasn't. I wish people would stop using the word 'underrated' so often.

[@silewis9396]

@@johnnyhammer I don't hear people talk about his defense much

[@johnnyhammer]

@@silewis9396 Because it's not as spectacular as game winning threes, is it?

[@southtxstig7587]

Think this caused his bleeding knee

[@luishibell210]

El equipo mas hermoso de todos los tiempos. Basquetbol sublime. Competidores clase estelar en la misma sintonía.

[@carlitosgonzalez924]

Así es 👏👏

[@alejandroaston3821]

this is the best U.S.A Mens basketball team ever this stars make NBA famous entire world

[@GabrielGarcia-im6nu]

Yo soy de Corea del Sur

[@cepekas4189]

Not just Usa Like entire worlds best team of all time and it was Unfait Lithuania as poor wasnt in nato Or eu It was independent just for 1 year at that poin they had no money and they you kwon had a choice of 3 mil people To choose team while usa had atleast population of a few hundread million sooo yeah

[@tommyhallum2054]

@@cepekas4189: That is a fair argument but what is the US supposed to do about that are they supposed to handicap themselves and bring themselves down to their opponents level? Now that would just be ridiculous. It's the Olympics you are supposed to gather the best team you possibly can and that is exactly what the US did there is nothing unfair about that.

[@cepekas4189]

@@tommyhallum2054 Its a fair argument i give up but there is a chance that i come back and write so bullshit

[@jeremiasflores5876]

Bird and Stockton together in the same team are illegal!

[@Ricardinho13115]

Womens volleyball female Cuba vs Rússia 1996 Atlanta

[@hochathanfire0001]

Even Chuck was making spin moves on the basket 🤣🍺.

[@michaelshaw7652]

Of all the dream teams, the original played the best D. It's hard to score on them. MJ was the most active defender among all dream members.

[@dobz746]

What are you talking about? Those teams were mesmerized and were obviously intimidated to Nba players let alone the Dream Team. Once that intimidation was gone and the "new" bar for Olympics basketball was set... international teams have improved their talents exponentially and even now we even have 4 of the top 10 players in the world are international players. Giannis, Luka, Jokic and Embiid.

[@ohah6330]

​​@@dobz746hat are u talkijg about? Those 4 "top" international players u quote are from the current era of soft nba. Gather this 4 players u mentioned, throw in wenbayama.. STiLL will not beat 92 dream team, not even close.

[@UnitedByMusic2]

​@@ohah6330don't think anyone would ever beat them and I'm fine with that, it's just magical.

[@garygary9993]

The pass off the ref from bird made me lol

[@finalxgohan1]

ball already went over the backboard, game was so fast pace Ref didn't even know it was suppose to be U.S. ball lol

[@cj-um8gf]

Image getting magic, mj, or larry bird signature.

[@danishchief1078]

27:05 Larry Bird: "WAH!" hahahaahahahah

[@iwspfreedom]

still imagine what if Sabonis entered nba in his prime

[@daeyoon5874]

I love and respect all the players who played in 1992 Barcelona - Especially love the round mound of rebound... ;) Much Love & Respect

[@mattbrown9484]

Barkley was great

[@CaptainKirk007]

What’s really crazy about this dream team was Larry Bird went on to coach Chris Mullin. 😅 Plus Malone/Stockton/Jordan for obvious reasons.

[@321lkjackson]

What's up with the black out screen that keeps popping up?

[@itzellove6448]

En estas olimpiadas los equipos de cualquier pais no les importaba perder se conformaban jugar con los grandes del baloncesto

[@Lalambz]

when you think about it, lithuania is playing like today's nba, mostly perimeter movement just without that fancy dribbling. Everything is fundamentally sound and their shots were just not falling

[@zacharyjefferson3988]

I think Bird and Ewing or Bird and Stockton on the Celtics would have been scary in the NBA. They have great Chemistry.

[@barbaraburton8914]

That is why it is such a joy to watch these games. The beauty of how they play together vs when they were opponents. Smooth, unselfish. The US team has a smoothness that the other teams don't. THANK YOU to whoever posted this.

[@WeCube1898]

What tall front court, that Transition Game was LETHAL. All that lead yet Coach Chuck Daly seems not yet happy😅

[@marcuscrowley6496]

And Laettner too. I expect he felt a lot of eyes were on him, as the ensuing decades of comments have sadly confirmed.

[@martinwakefield8138]

Thats cuz he took a beating at the black jack table the night before

[@martinwakefield8138]

@@marcuscrowley6496In fairness Laettner played for some really, really bad organizations.

[@kendrickjobe2149]

Magic in a defensive stance. Shuffling his feet. Back-peddling on his toes, and not his heels? Rarely saw that much attention to defense in a Lakers uniform...

[@SobridMusic]

1:13:55 it bounces off the ref and they just play it lol

[@bananahuman9788]

Hello people in the future

[@thetruth4808]

They was balling they enjoyed every min of tha Olympus

[@mariomm9080]

Chomicius,Sabonis,Marciulionis,Kurtinaitis were big stars in Soviet Lithuania, and weird how Magic got bigger pop than MJ

[@cabriskus4700]

It’s 1992. Magic had 5 rings. Mj had zero

[@ricardorousseau5585]

@@cabriskus4700 MJ had 2 and was the reigning 2X NBA finals mvp and league MVP

[@filemonruiz7363]

Magic was still more popular then. He was more beloved.

[@321lkjackson]

I've seen more hookshots the first half than I have seen in the last 10 NBA season combined lol

[@lucilaromero9472]

Dream team indeed!

[@cinnaminson0653]

In 1988 several of these same players were members of the USSR team that beat the USA in Korea. Looking at it now, they looked very intimidated. The USA was of course much better but Lithuania was better than they showed here.

[@44danielson]

That American team was just college kids tho

[@normanhopkins6114]

Don't forget, the USSR team had a lot of help from the refs. Just watch the replay.

[@martinwakefield8138]

The Soviet team was largely professional, playing against college kids, and had very favorable officiating. Those Soviet leftovers had no idea what was heading their way in '92

[@Emperroroffire]

@@44danielson Robinson, Richmond, Majerle, Manning were among these college kids. Not a bad team, huh?

[@maa7332]

The Dream team players were all NBA top 50 members (minus Lattener); the 1988 players were marginal allstars (minus Robinson).

[@ericbotley5109]

Dream Team the best basketball team ever assembled period

[@jamezason]

Looked like a young Donnie Nelson on Lithuania’s bench.

[@feez26]

because it is Donnie Nelson (assistant coach for Lithuania)

[@charlesmurphy3222]

Marciulonus if he was American would've been a great at American football or baseball. Dude was a pure athlete who didn't back down or quit.

[@joaquinspandex7870]

I didn't know, but he was Mr. Basketball in Lithuania and even played several years in the NBA. I paused the game to look his # up, because he was very noticable.

[@michaelrobinstonemorales8256]

I remember his nickname when he was playing in the nba was "the human karate chop!"

[@DonBJ21]

Sabonis very young B4 he was in NBA. Great European player

[@MrCarloC1969]

At 32:23 isn't that Dr. J?

[@sangana5964]

Ils avaient reçu une bonne leçon de basketball de la part des artistes basketteurs afro-americains toujours au top.

[@mpolster24]

Green #11 was a straight up baller. Wish injuries wouldnt have got him.

[@ChrisOak2]

Best part about this for me is no obnoxious commentators like Marv "Ear Licker" Albert

[@nate978x]

DREAM TEAM inspired the world of basketball impacted internationally.

[@user-xl9ks7sb2j]

Daly looks like a capo from the local crime family as he walks off the ct and the end of the game.

[@michaelwallace2101]

lord have mercy, i outdid myself with that home made hotsauce this time, its gonna hurt TWICE

[@hochathanfire0001]

Thank you for no commentary 🤩.

[@Chop_Suey]

Well, eventually in 2004, LTU won against the USA.

[@cj-um8gf]

Beating them was almost impossible, they would win usually by 35 to 40 points

[@loveojoara9287]

Try the ti beat the U.S now

[@tonyiacomi4822]

They won the prelim game, the USA beat them in the bronze game, and has beaten them every game since then too. Don't forget Puerto Rico, Italy, and Argentina beat the 2004 team. It wasn't our best team. Lebron, Wade, and Melo were all rookies. Shaq, Garnett, and Kobe didn't play. I mean it tells you something when they lost to Puerto Rico by 19 points. That team practiced for only 3 weeks and had no chemistry. Then we got serious

[@jasonarias6226]

Are u American

[@SunRiseEvery-day]

@@tonyiacomi4822 What ever the reason it was, USA still played against a country of 3 million. In 2000s semi finals usa won by 2 points in 2004 first game by 4 for 3rd place by 8 2012 games usa won by 5. As a country that has the best players, the best league,the best coaches,the best training facilities and a huge population should dominate 3 million population country by 50 minimum everytime

[@iambecomepaul]

Chuck Daly at 1:20:36 : “did I ever tell you I invented the term, ‘casual grace’?”

[@marcellehardingsr.511]

Shout out to the best team ever assembled my hat is off for the goats 🐐

[@fidel2xl]

21:01 minute mark: Magic Johnson with step-back 3-pointer. Barkely with the same @ the 24:45 minute mark.

[@robertverner7507]

Lol “get it Charles”

[@EneOneOne]

no commentators! wonderfully!! 😍

[@paulmkz]

These games are like watching high school varsity team playing jvs. They got no shot

[@corkystorky]

I don't know about you but I watched this with so many blackouts is it my computer or the upload is bad

[@davidca96]

its not you its in the recording itself

[@camupor197]

If I remember well, it was really hot in barcelona and the tv guys had some hard time to keep everything cool. That's why there are some blackouts.

[@Dr.ScatKohlenblo-nj2cv]

Would have been fun watching a young Shaq out here runnin the floor and dunking on everyone. I suppose Laetner was deserving but the team certainly had more minutes available for a third team center than another forward....where no team could possibly be more loaded.

[@aaadj2744]

33:36 no foul been called on that Ewing push ?

[@vika0194]

@@LeRon-TheCon-Jon-jj8hj Because they missed the incident

[@MaydayAggro]

How many times do you get to see David Robinson dunk on an assist from Magic?