magic!Jordan !! Happiness to witness a historical moment “ Dream ” experience of a former basketball reporter-Sports General: Nikkan Sports Premium

The main characters were “God” Michael Jordan, who was in his prime at the time, and Magic Johnson, who retired from active duty the previous year due to AIDS infection and returned only for the Olympics. The Magic decided to participate in AIDS awareness considering his physical condition. The top stars of the NBA gather around the two of them. All-star groups such as the movies “The Magnificent Seven” and “Ocean’s 11” have become social phenomena called dream teams.

A lavish training camp in Monaco and Monte Carlo prior to the race. The location of the suburban airfield used to arrive in Barcelona is top secret. I managed to find him with his colleague, a journalist from the social affairs department. The airport was reinforced by armed national police, and five patrol cars led us straight to a luxury hotel in the city. The hotel was also constructed by the NBA, and the furnishings were provided by the NBA.

We covered a press conference attended by Magic and Jordan at the athletes’ village. It was a dream-like encounter with someone he had admired since high school when he was in the basketball club. My birthday on August 14th, 1959 was the same as Magic, so I had a special feeling for him. Standing side by side with Magic on the way to the press conference, I instinctively touched her body. At the press conference, he didn’t speak English, but he sat in the second seat from the front and listened intently. When Jordan made eye contact with him, he felt a sense of intimidation that made him look away.

The Dream Team has played all 100-point games since the preliminaries, winning the gold medal with a difference of 30 points or more in all games. The opponents rushed to the Dream Team and asked for autographs and photos so that they could not wait for the final whistle. In the first half of the final against Croatia, the Magic appeared in the only scene where they allowed a comeback, and created a flow of reversal with a splendid play. Just before the championship was decided, he stood up first on the bench and encouraged his teammates on the court.

Basketball was not very well known in Japan at the time. The final match will be a lottery for the media around the world, and only Nikkan Sports and Kyodo News have raised their hands in the domestic preliminary lottery in advance. The success and attention of the dream team created a full-fledged flow of professional participation in the Olympics. The dream team was formed at the subsequent Olympics, but to this day there is no team that surpasses the line-up and ability of 1992.