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Dream Team: How Michael, Magic, Larry, Charles, and the Greatest Team of All Time Conquered the World and Changed the Game of Basketball Forever was written by Jack McCallum, a reporter who witnessed and spent time with the Dream Team. From the title, you would think that’s all the book’s about, but it gets even deeper than that. Assembling the Dream Team, members of the Dream Team and what they did in their careers, The Dream Team and how everything went/was for them, and the end result of the Dream Team. They are a team that has changed basketball/sports forever. The central idea of the book is about what the Dream Team went through to capture the olympic gold. To first make a “Dream Team” you’re going to need a coach and a team. Chuck Daly was the coach of the Detroit Pistons, and according to McCallum, “The committee charged Daly with creating a list of players he’d want,” (Page 70) so he would be the coach of the Dream Team. The Dream Team’s chemistry served as no problem and as a result the team had great success in winning the Olympics. Though there were no chemistry problems, many thought as stated from McCallum …show more content…
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