🇺🇸 USA vs. 🇭🇷 Croatia - 🏀 Basketball Final Barcelona 1992

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Enjoy these throwback moments to the Olympic Basketball Final of the USA's Dream Team against Croatia 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 Croatian squad in the 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!

[@rafiamunchies5931]

Plesse upload a long video of marit Bjoergen the greatest olympian

[@pastuh]

LTU Vs USA

[@adjeiboateng6720]

Jamaica winning the 2012 4×100 relay final. It was a really special race.

[@johnniecastrothevloger6773]

USA dream basketball Year 1992

[@conflicto7575]

Full game?

[@AximandTheCursed]

Full credit to Croatia, they showed real hustle here against a team I would consider virtually unbeatable.

[@flipflop4396]

30 point difference is hardly a hustle...they lost same margin as most teams did on those Olympics against USA

[@44Magnum6]

@@flipflop4396 Wrong. They won by an average of 44 pts per game. This was their closet game. A country of 330 million vs a country of 5 million.

[@flipflop4396]

@@44Magnum6 thats weak excuse, by that logic China and India should domunate basketball...and that logic failes to explain how Lithuania which has 2x smaller population than Croatia...is more sucessfull than Croatia...

[@AllinOne-dg3dk]

@@flipflop4396 but you have more to CHOOOSE!!! you can change and find more players you understand?

[@flipflop4396]

@@AllinOne-dg3dk so you can find more players in Croatia than Lithuania since Croatia has 2x bigger population...yet Lithuania is more sucessful team.

[@TheFikfreak]

Man we were so proud playing against the glorious Dream Team in the Olympic finals, amidst very hard times for our small country. I was a 12 year old boy and have just starting the biggest love for the game. Dražen's death was an awful shock the next year and our national team started to decline, but half of the country continued to root for Kukoč, MJ and the Bulls till late '90s and every existing court in Croatia was full of kids playing basketball ❤️

[@caoainguyenang1007]

Croatia still one of the best in Europe now.

[@Golden-ui5um]

Being from Utah I hated (loved) the Bulls! Back then I didn't know much about Tony but how could you not love him. I liked reading your comment, seeing the game and these players from your perspective.

[@TheFikfreak]

@@Golden-ui5um Thank youuu, I still watch the game and had one eye on Utah this last season. I was very happy for our guy Bogdanović dropping career high 48 points, he's such a great guy, humble and always giving his all, sadly the team didn't make it a bit better in the playoffs. Greetings from Croatia 👋

[@AspireGMD]

In the USA we love Croatia.

[@patrickwalker4077]

RIP Drazen Petrovic. He'll be back one day. What a great player he was.

[@teoivanovic3796]

I am from Croatia and i live in Croatia and i have great Love for America.This was FOR SURE best U.S. dream team ever,i am also so proud on my country Croatia for playing such great game against Greatest basketball players ever

[@unappealingundesirable2826]

I am Japanese-American born in Seattle. I am buying a CROATIA KUKOC 7 and PETROVIC 4 jersey.

[@AllinOne-dg3dk]

@@unappealingundesirable2826 nice! petrovic is legend in nba

[@lovenlightman]

U have great players Players from yogoslavya Divach, Tony C where the first to play in the NBA

[@Jim26D]

Most kids today don't realize how great drazen petrovic was. Such a sad day when I heard about his accident.

[@antonpaco]

This was the real USA Dream Team, a roster full of great great champions.

[@peterdelmonte9832]

It has always been beyond me where the popularity of this game comes from. Some tall chaps bounce a ball down a gym, jump up and put it in a basket. Then the other team has the ball and bounce sit to the other end of the gym and puts it into the basket at that end. And repeat. And because it goes on for so long, the scores get really high. So boring. I realise this won’t be a majority opinion.

[@NazriB]

Lies again? Ugly Childish Toilet Break

[@dwells3536]

@@peterdelmonte9832 you could break down all sports like this and make them sound dumb and boring

[@JohnLee-jk5ew]

@@dwells3536except soccer of course

[@dwells3536]

@@JohnLee-jk5ew dudes running around a field kicking balls into nets. You can 100% say this about soccer lol. It’s a simple sport

[@denlazar1617]

I see Drazen Petrovic and i feel sad, what a unique player. Much respect from Greece - Panathinaikos where he was about to play...

[@TopMutt]

Did not know that,

[@borisbrankovic]

Dražen was the best we ever have

[@muccica9598]

The greatest talent ever, a true Dream Team, and yet, against all odds, the Croatians had them on the ropes at one point. Thumbs up for the brave people! Respect!

[@melissaporter5928]

Please on what ropes...They were never in danger of loosing to Croatia

[@hi-vv3jo]

What ropes? Is there a 30 point shot that I don't know about?

[@kmarasin]

A basketball game never stop after ten minutes, and the Dream Team players knew that. Keeping it close for ten minutes does not equal "on the ropes".

[@basketballexpert8210]

A bunch of janitors against a bunch of janitors 😂😂😂😂😂

[@deandrewilliams5336]

What exactly is your definition of "On the ropes"?

[@gegata082]

RIP DRAZEN PETROVIC 😢

[@HailCostanza]

Yep. Wear your seatbelts, kids.

[@phantomgrin6964]

Yes r.i.p.

[@juliocrd7962]

R.I.P Tony kukoć😅

[@norpriest521]

@@juliocrd7962 F U

[@KhanzaKhanza-wv2mf]

​@@juliocrd7962MX Bu La km

[@nabilghafar9150]

this is the best team ever assembled. 92 USA dream team. all players are great 2 ways superstars.

[@NayaA-Ri]

I am crying in happiness, watching all the legend playing on the same court. What a privilege for those who watched the show

[@davidca96]

Best basketball team to ever exist.

[@rusbenreyes5695]

The best basketball team of all time, won all their games for more than 30 points of difference 👏👏👏🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@mirfalltkeinnameein9]

They would loose against 2023 German World Cup team

[@rusbenreyes5695]

@@mirfalltkeinnameein9 I'm talking about 1992 USA 🇺🇸 dream team

[@mirfalltkeinnameein9]

@@rusbenreyes5695 yes I know but they would loose against 2023 Germany.

[@rusbenreyes5695]

@mirfalltkeinnameein9 that dream team beat everybody for more than 30 points per game, this Germany team could lose for about 50 or 60 points of difference, not team ever you can't compare with that 1992 Dream team, invincible team 👏

[@gjbsarmeri3957]

​@@mirfalltkeinnameein9Lets not be delusional. They would beat this Germany team by 50 points

[@josephpagaduan9376]

the best ever... dream team usa.

[@xhafts]

No 2008 was better

[@EliHank]

@@xhafts 2012 was even better

[@francescagregorutti1496]

Dream team YUGOSLAVIA 💙🤍❤️🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 Indianapolis 2002 world champion in usa , Jugoslvija Number One ,🏀🥇🏆

[@mauropergolini2132]

@@xhafts Ahahaha

[@mattdelarosa6819]

No team ever has nor ever will be better than that Dream Team. Period!

[@texascolt4568]

This croatian team can beat an nba finalist, nowadays i mean look how tough they are.

[@tomerbauer]

Croatia in itself was a European Dream Team then, for those who followed the euro league. And lithuania had a dreamy straying five as well, all top-caliber euro players.

[@unappealingundesirable2826]

Marciulionis!!

[@KOTAPA]

@@unappealingundesirable2826 Sabonis.

[@slavkosmolcic4955]

Kurtinaitis

[@milosjovicevic6083]

🙄 No they were not Serbia was by far stronger European team. Croatia and Lithuania had 4-4 great players, Serbia had 7-8 + better bench But USA forbid Serbia to play because they were evil imperia attacking Serbian land

[@sanjamatsuri]

At this Olympics Croatia played with all her heart because we were in a bloody war..Serbia attacked us and Bosnia! Bloody Serbian killers...

[@LeiLa-qs7dq]

Toni Kukoc! Omg 90’s the greatest decade ❤

[@malaythong10]

The happiest year of my life was watching the Dream Team played. I was a senior in HS.

[@njuey]

Drazen Petrovic! He was fearless and relentless. Even Jordan admit he had rough time when drazen guard him.

[@ii9714]

Jordan had no competition

[@ricardolopez1228]

@@ii9714 glory to Drazen.. ZDS

[@ii9714]

@@ricardolopez1228 You obviously don't know basketball

[@ricardolopez1228]

@@ii9714 woow ... wrong

[@44Magnum6]

@@ii9714 Larry Bird was 6-0 against Jordan in the playoffs and won 16 straight games against him.

[@ahkee369]

After Bad Dream’s opening lost to France, I need my dose of Dream Team to cheer me up.

[@Buasop]

That's why I'm here

[@pandaypira4346]

KD needs to take his gatorade to stop his bad dreams

[@teegotti4192]

Lol

[@MajorrBison]

And today august 7th 2021 and the United States are repeat gold medalists once again. Congratulations to us.

[@ysnmal]

🥱 USA USA 🇺🇸

[@ma.cecillacerna5506]

Truly a Dream Team!!! 😍❤️❤️❤️🥰 No other team can be like it. Thanks yt, I can watch this over & over, relive my college gaga- over basketball days.❤️❤️❤️

[@justchillinnnn]

Came here just to watch the immortal legend Drazen!!!

[@BigRW]

Respect to Croatia from the US. Your guys played tough.

[@speedway440]

4:21 Arnold Swartzenegger is in the stands, stunned.

[@josegomezmartinez9292]

En qué minuto lo viste?

[@javirodriguez1939]

@@josegomezmartinez9292 en el 4:21

[@andreinybakken9252]

The most epic Olympic basketball final in history. A much deserved winner, but there's never been a more epic runner-up. R.I.P. Dražen Petrović. Lithuania also deserves an honorable mention for picking up the bronze, the '92 Olympic generation was stacked with class acts👏🔝

[@ii9714]

2008 and 2012 were to close for team USA

[@KOTAPA]

@@ii9714 No.

[@butchcoolidge8643]

Yugoslavia was a much better opponent in Atlanta, stayed in the game three times longer than Croatia.

[@robintang7304]

Best game I ever watch, no other team can match them, best assembly of great players of all time.

[@skyjuke2006]

Drazen Mozart 🎻Petrovic was the best! 🏀🇭🇷 From Italy 🇮🇹

[@thunderenriquez255]

up to this day the greatest team ever assembled. imagine a triumvirate of jordan pippen and johnson, then malone barkley robinson ewing controlling the boards. stockton malone duo, jordan stockton combo, barkley pippen and jordan trio.

[@juncruz6266]

Croatia was a great team

[@josedetorrealba28]

Que equipazo ese de Croacia.👍

[@marcochicchi8787]

Greatest basketball ever, i love THIS game 💜

[@julia8482862]

3:18 What a play!

[@TheSands83]

Yeah that was a mean aa dunk though. No one even commented about it

[@jimartinezcf]

Que equipo!! Fue un placer verlos! Nunca hubo otro igual…

[@orioncoke1]

Magnifique equipe de Croatie quant même ... j'aurais aimé voir la grande yougoslavie aussi

[@student99bg]

Oui, c'était un très grand dommage que Yugoslavie n'ait plus existé. Avec Danilović, Divac, Đorđević...

[@plakatkingdom3691]

Yep the best generation of basketball. No doubts about it

[@jwatson181]

2020 team usa beats this team.

[@hudsonbay9367]

@@jwatson181 L

[@jwatson181]

@@hudsonbay9367 This team looks horrible. Look at the defense and the missed layups.

[@hudsonbay9367]

@@jwatson181 this team won by an average of 40+ points against each team, they don’t need to try

[@user-fn2bx3be2x]

@@hudsonbay9367 against these teams 2020 team would win easily too

[@mosando]

I had forgotten how athletic Ewing was back in those days. Honestly kids in the US do not realize how great The Dream Team was and how important they were to the world of Basketball.

[@tonycoundermann2166]

The real dream team- unbeatable.

[@Murph0981]

What’s wild is Croatia put up a fight, solid all around!

[@marcellehardingsr.511]

This is the best basketball team ever assembled in life 🧬 shout out to the goats of the game!!

[@mikeratkiewicz6720]

Crazy seeing Drazen out there. Dude was a stud and had the talent to be HOF.

[@afrizki5993]

MJ: Guys,leave Toni (Kukoc) to me and Scottie!!

[@abhisheksinghrawat5119]

Not that match kid. Not that match.

[@rambomoore381]

Arnold Schwarzenegger in absolute awe at 4:19! The Oak!

[@JohnSmith-vy7ck]

Jack Nicholson smoking in the crowd also 😂. Euro

[@user-ey8xe7li9e]

Я смотрел этот матч от начала до конца, и смотрелся он на одном дыхании, и не скажу, что звезды нба играли в полсилы весь матч, так иногда расслаблялись, но и хорваты были на высоте конечно.

[@paolomaldini9673]

We all talk about usa dream team Croatia small country with 4 milion people Was in the final,

[@kinidiosodlosios6892]

Thats Croatia so its normal

[@glennrobinson.377]

Drazen Petrovic, Dino Radja and Toni Kucoc.

[@CarlosAlberto-fx5uj]

Equipe fantástica 🥇

[@professordouglasw1714]

Great game. Brave Croatia!

[@kmarasin]

Top USA stats vs. Croatia (gold medal game): Jordan 22 pts Barkley 17 pts, 4 ast, 4 stl Ewing 15 pts, 6 reb Pippen 12 pts, 4 ast Johnson 11 pts, 6 ast Mullin 11 pts, 4 ast Drexler 10 pts, 3 ast, 3 stl

[@luigiriveranavarro2023]

😢 best time ever. I saw this game with my father ( r.i.p)

[@girlmuzan5530]

If a team can score 87 runs VS 1992 Dream Team that team can probably make it to the semi final in NBA

[@hectorguillermoperdomoyane4739]

Pues el Mejor Equipo De Estados Unidos este Pues Y Con Jordan A la Cabeza ....Y Espectáculo era verlos jugar a estos Excelente jugadores

[@lexsoft3969]

Clyde Drexler was my favorite from the dream team

[@marcosalemi7281]

guys, seeing Jordan, Magic, Bird, Robinson, Ewing, Barkley, Drexler, Stockton, Malone, Pippen playing together is something that anyone who hasn't seen it can't understand. The strongest team ever that can never be equaled!!

[@PerfectlyFreedom]

3:03 what a coordination!

[@angelmendez6638]

Qué grande Croacia, compitiendo por un cacho pan y saliendo de una guerra, todo un ejemplo de vida.

[@smallz556]

Draz pet was a beast bro 💯

[@sergedeleon9592]

This is a priceless memories of legends of dream team

[@professordouglasw1714]

Reporter: -- "So, what's your tactics for tonight's game?" USA coach: -- "Yes!"

[@dencesmith6397]

2 off the best teams ever

[@douglaschaves81]

The best team but the best team was the respet that Jordan and dream team show with the other teams, the are so humble

[@craigsmith87]

IMO the greatest team ever assembled.

[@BigRW]

RIP Drazen Petrovic. He was a great player.

[@fulltimeslackerii8229]

playing against that team is a bigger honor than winning the gold tbh

[@Stridamdam]

Drazen Petrovic would beg to disagree. He wanted Croatia win this final.

[@javierbajo9408]

4:20 The only thing more epic than this team was Schwarzenegger's cap

[@MTalac]

He was searching which one he could terminate :D

[@sergedeleon9592]

Priceless memories of play but now they are fading

[@T--rt8zp]

Los mejores de la historia..nadie los iguala..son del olimpo..son dioses..

[@emmanuelmcdonald3556]

Tony Kukoc...👏🏾

[@nophoto8944]

the first time someone took the lead against the original dream team.

[@malaythong10]

Croatia played very well against the best players in the world.

[@Lucreaux]

The flash photography at the tip off was really cool and reminded me of how that used to happen all the time at sporting events.

[@TheScaryGermanGuy]

Kukoc, Petrovic and Radja. Nice.

[@titansegundera2.049]

Air Jordan flying high in the sky! Michael Jordan with the jam.

[@BGK2223]

Tony kukoc! What a great player - glad the bulls landed him.

[@rufiorufioo]

The craziest basketball team ever assembled. We will never see another like this.

[@jardindorado]

Madre mía, vaya equipo. Irrepetible, insuperable, inigualable.

[@joelsanchez8766]

Pues obvio ,los demás países no tenían liga profesional.

[@elanimal7545]

@@joelsanchez8766 Y que equipo de los de ahora le ganaría a ese equipo? Con todas sus ligas profesionales

[@mariometaxas8923]

RIP Drazen...never forget...

[@damirkruselj2503]

1992 CROATIA POWER

[@omarstabridis5899]

El mejor equipo de la historia, era una delicia verles jugar

[@romanortiz8013]

Simplemente los mejores de la historia 👏

[@canobbio634]

un real equipo de ensueño, también lo mejor que ha tenido Croacia hasta hoy día.

[@tomislavoreskovic3158]

The fact that Croatia lead at any time in the game let alone as late as we did against the best basketball team ever assembled while also going through a brutal war for independence and basically survival is a testament to Croatian heart. No one did this! Also World Cup of soccer 2018 and 2022!!! Hrvatska !!

[@diogovenancio2975]

Johnson, Bird and Jordan, I think even if was me playing there with them we would get de gold medal.

[@ekieouscire2929]

Greatest Mens 0lympic Basketball Team ever assembled so far💯‼️

[@alfredoortizfranco1080]

Magic Jhonson, Jordan y Bird... Woooow

[@chipschannel9494]

A “classroom” of fastbreak, full court press “TEAM” basketball!

[@nelson7386]

3:34 unbelievable!!!

[@davidlarav4261]

Lástima que Drazen Petrovic falleció aún teniendo muchísimo que ofrecer al baloncesto, a su selección.

[@harrycallahan9069]

A superstar team and a team of superstars

[@ivanmarindrums]

Años después, Kukoc se uniría con Jordan y Pippen en Chicago Bulls

[@anamarijasolje9052]

A small cantry nouone knows hit by the war vs dream team. U will never know what this moment ment for us. For Croatia!

[@santiagorincon92]

A Dream team in all the sense of the word. R.I.P. Drazen Petrovic.

[@zachnoe4503]

Drazen was an assassin of a player

[@sergiooconitrillo5082]

This USA Team was simply unbeatable ...

[@copadomundo62]

*1:55** Drazem Petrovic enterrando a bola contra a NBA mostra o valor dessa equipe da Croácia.* *3:59** Essa enterrada de Mickael Jordan espetacular 🇺🇸USA🇺🇸 o maior jogador de Basquete de todos os tempos.* 20 / 10 / 2021 • 16:11

[@jofubar2763]

I think that was Franjo Arapovic at 1:55.

[@TuanVan-ne1fg]

2:46 greatest point guard of all time thats why

[@jimcurt99]

Croatia played tough- but this was not even fair- the talent on team USA that year was just untouchable...

[@joseferreirajr2285]

The real Dream Team. Hi from Brazil

[@SuperVeep]

92' Dream Team bench players would put current Team U.S.A starters to shame.

[@luisbaez87]

The croatians my team , my player dranz petrovic

[@greiby1000]

CROACIA SE MANDO UN GRAN JUEGO CONTRA EL DREAM TEAM

[@rusbenreyes5695]

Buen juego pero ese Dream team fue invencible gano todos sus juegos por mas de 30 puntos de diferencia, este fue el mas cerca y terminaron ganando por 32 puntos, algo que no volveremos a ver jamas 🏀🏀👏👏🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@Noisy_Cricket]

Woah, Croatia led at one point?! I never knew this!

[@deespasojevic3013]

Hrvati had a dream team too