In the eight seasons between 19 that housed Chicago’s two three-peats, the league scoring average was 101.5 the four seasons between 19 saw a league scoring average of just under 95 points a game - and it would get worse in subsequent years before it got better. The NBA was still adjusting to a post-Bulls landscape. men’s basketball team finished in sixth place on U.S. Team USA’s 58-game international winning streak was snapped in the octofinals against Argentina they lost again the next day to the former Yugoslavia in the quarterfinal two days later, with the medal rounds out of reach, they lost to Spain in the fifth-place game. And I sincerely wish I were only talking about the starting backcourt consisting of a hobbled, 37-year-old Reggie Miller and an overachieving, spiritually 37-year-old Andre Miller in an internationally sanctioned game of import. In the opening days of September 2002 in Indianapolis, 50 years after Jimmy Chitwood brought the Hoosiers to the promised land and one year after the Library of Congress preserved Hoosiers in the National Film Registry, the United States men’s basketball team, playing in one of the bastions of basketball purity, committed a national atrocity. It ruptures as you peer through the nylon and into the void of a Team USA starting-lineup graphic from the 2002 World Basketball Championship and realize that the past sucked.
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