The year was 1992. It was the summer between 5th and 6th grade. I resided in the University City section of West Philadelphia. I can recall taking Amtrak with my grandmother for the 1st time. That trip was to visit cousins from Philadelphia who recently moved to Raleigh, North Carolina. The 1992 Summer Olympics were in Barcelona, Spain. As an eleven year old kid I was fascinated with the group of basketball players known as the Dream Team. They obviously dominated on the basketball court in route to a Gold Medal. However off the court these guys took Barcelona by storm. They were larger than life. Just from the likes of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. However Charles Barkley led the team in scoring. Yet off the court he and his teammates took in one of Spain most beautiful cities. These guys were like rock stars, they couldn't stay in the Olympic Village. Despite that you'd see players around town enjoying the experience. Here we are 2017, 25 years removed from those Olympic Games and only a year removed from the Rio 2016 Olympics. You had to see it to believe it in terms of the 1992 Dream Team pop culture.
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