Featured Article
This Is Our Team: Jason Kidd
01 July 2008
Is a great point guard the key to Olympic victory? With a record of 44-0 as a leader of Team USA, Jason Kidd would argue yes.
Since the invention of basketball the United States has ruled the hardwood. What started out a physical education experiment in Massachusetts has evolved into a national pastime and a global phenomenon. And since the beginning the US has made the rules, set new standards and invented superstars in the game. In international play, whenever the US stepped out on the court and set the pace, we made the plays and we took home the gold.
So much of the international game ...
Find out more »
Latest Article
This Is Our Game: Commitment
01 July 2008
This is our story. The story of us as a country, played on a court and erected on a podium. The journey of us told on the hallowed courts of the 1920’s New York and Boston, the 1930’s Chicago and Detroit. The tale of our pride echoed from the past, lifted off concrete, written ...
Find out more »
This Is Our Game: Undefeated
01 July 2008
This is Our Game explores the rich tradition of the U.S. National Teams, uncovering the victories, defeats, and rivalries of the last seven decades. In Part One of the series, as the game spreads to the world, the first and greatest American basketball dynasty is born.
1936-1968.
It all ...
Find out more »
This Is Our Game: Controversy & D ...
01 July 2008
This is Our Game explores the rich tradition of the U.S. National Teams, uncovering the victories, defeats, and rivalries of the last seven decades. In Part Two of the series, a legendary streak comes to an abrupt end as Russia emerges on the world stage.
1972-1984.
As the threat of a T ...
Find out more »
This Is Our Game: The Dream Team
01 July 2008
This is Our Game explores the rich tradition of the U.S. National Teams, uncovering the victories, defeats, and rivalries of the last seven decades. In Part Three of the series, discover how a defeat in Seoul gave rise to the Dream Team, an extraordinary group of men who forever changed t ...
Find out more »
This Is Our Game: The Fall
01 July 2008
This is Our Game explores the rich tradition of the U.S. National Teams, uncovering the victories, defeats, and rivalries of the last seven decades. In Part Four of the series, Team USA gets the biggest wake-up call in history.
2000-2006
The Dream Team changed the game in 1992. The worl ...
Find out more »
CHANGE REGION