CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. -- It's hard to remember how much talent exists in the basketball world. The sheer number of kids playing the sport reaches into the hundreds of millions, and the explosion stemming from the early-1990s and the original Dream Team impacted a full generation of players who grew up watching their heroes - both domestic and international - succeed in the NBA. It spurred continued growth over the past 30 years to the point where there isn't a corner of the globe where basketball is irrelevant, and the sport is arguably just as big as the crowd that grew up playing soccer.