We Beat the Dream Team

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We Beat the Dream Team

2025,

1h 20m,

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WE BEAT THE DREAM TEAM reveals the little-known story of a group of college basketball players who were tasked with preparing Larry Bird, Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan and the rest of the legendary “Dream Team” for their Olympic debut in 1992. In an unexpected twist, the college team, which featured Grant Hill, Chris Webber, Penny Hardaway, Bobby Hurley, Jamal Mashburn, Allan Houston, Rodney Rogers, and Eric Montross, shocked the NBA superstars by defeating them in a scrimmage – an outcome that ultimately helped propel the Dream Team to gold. The 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain marked the first-time professional basketball players were allowed to compete, giving rise to the legendary Dream Team. With the exception of Duke University’s Christian Laettner, who was the lone college athlete on the team, star college players were invited to the “USA Select Team” and brought in to the prepare the NBA superstars for the Olympics. Using the only surviving VHS copy of the secret scrimmage, interviews with the USA Select Team key players and coaches, and additional rare archives, the film revisits the sole game the celebrated Dream Team lost, unspooling the story from the perspective of the college athletes.

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Alissa Wilkinson

New York Times

Feb 21, 2025

The results are delightful: It’s rare to see a documentary airing out a long-running beef as beautifully, good-naturedly and enjoyably as this one.

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Alfred Castaneda

Shade Studios

Jul 30, 2025

We Beat the Dream Team is worth watching, if only for the Select Team’s firsthand accounts.

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Marty Brown

Common Sense Media

Apr 16, 2025

This one is for fans only.

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Scott Hines

Decider

Mar 12, 2025

If you can’t get enough of the Dream Team story, then there’s a lot to keep you satisfied here.

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Stephen Silver

The SS Ben Hecht

Feb 22, 2025

The footage of the "game" isn't the best quality, but the director has something better up his sleeve.

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Christopher Campbell

Nonfics (Substack)

Feb 14, 2025

It’s not the tightest documentary, nor the most visually engaging sports film, but Hill and friends spin a good yarn about that day.

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WE BEAT THE DREAM TEAM reveals the little-known story of a group of college basketball players who were tasked with preparing Larry Bird, Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan and the rest of the legendary “Dream Team” for their Olympic debut in 1992. In an unexpected twist, the college team, which featured Grant Hill, Chris Webber, Penny Hardaway, Bobby Hurley, Jamal Mashburn, Allan Houston, Rodney Rogers, and Eric Montross, shocked the NBA superstars by defeating them in a scrimmage – an outcome that ultimately helped propel the Dream Team to gold. The 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, Spain marked the first-time professional basketball players were allowed to compete, giving rise to the legendary Dream Team. With the exception of Duke University’s Christian Laettner, who was the lone college athlete on the team, star college players were invited to the “USA Select Team” and brought in to the prepare the NBA superstars for the Olympics. Using the only surviving VHS copy of the secret scrimmage, interviews with the USA Select Team key players and coaches, and additional rare archives, the film revisits the sole game the celebrated Dream Team lost, unspooling the story from the perspective of the college athletes.

Director: Michael Tolajian
Producer: Moses Musilu, Michael Tolajian
Distributor: HBO
Production Co: TNT Sports
Genre: Documentary, Sports
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Feb 17, 2025
Runtime: 1h 20m

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