This Day In Basketball History
1991 - USA Basketball announces Dream Team participants
With NBA players headed to the following summer's Olympics for the first time, USA Basketball announces the first 10 members of the team that would live on in legend as the "Dream Team."
The highly anticipated roster reveal lives up to the hype, as Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, David Robinson, Charles Barkley, John Stockton, Karl Malone, Patrick Ewing, Scottie Pippen and Chris Mullin are announced as members (Clyde Drexler and Christian Laettner were added later) of likely the greatest sports team ever assembled.
The actual team lives up to the hype, too, outscoring opponents in their eight games at the Barcelona Olympics by an average of over 43 points per game en route to gold.
Birthdays
1949 - Artis Gilmore
The ABA legend known as "The A-Train" joined the NBA thanks to the 1976-77 merger, and he quickly asserted himself as one of the most dominant big men in the Association.
The 7-foot-2 Gilmore averaged 17.1 points, 10.1 rebounds, two assists and 1.9 blocks over 12 NBA seasons with the Bulls, Spurs and Celtics, making six All-Star games in the process. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2011.
1958 - Rick Mahorn
1990 - Al-Farouq Aminu