Fresh off winning the 1992 N.C.A.A. championship with Duke, Grant Hill joined a team of college players in La Jolla, Calif., to scrimmage against the first Dream Team in preparation for the Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Most of the wide-eyed collegians thought of themselves as sacrificial lambs, thrilled to just share a court with the likes of Larry Bird, Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan. Instead, the college team of Hill, Allan Houston, Glenn Robinson and others thoroughly outplayed the N.B.A. The Dream Team, still in its early days of coalescing, shrugged off the loss, beat the collegians the next day and went on to bully the competition at the Olympics.

Source: New York Times July 13, 2021 12:44 UTC