It began on the bus ride to the arena. Actually, it began when the U.S. drew Croatia in the 1992 Olympic men’s basketball tournament. It got serious on the bus ride.
Michael Jordan spoke. The rest of the Dream Team was silent in its seats.
“He said, ‘Toni Kukoc, I got him tonight,'” Magic Johnson recalled in a 2012 NBC documentary. “‘He’s not going to get one basket on me.'”
That set the table for “the Kukoc game.”
In its second contest of the Olympics, the Dream Team spanked the silver-medal favorite Croatia 103-70.