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Michael Jordan: The Olympics
Jordan played on two Olympic gold medal-winning American basketball teams: as a college player in the 1984 Summer Olympics, and in the 1992 Summer Olympics as a member of the original "Dream Team," with other legends such as Magic Johnson and Larry Bird. It is also often rumored that Jordan kept guard Isiah Thomas off the roster. During Jordan's first All-Star game, Thomas is said to have orchestrated a "freeze-out" of Jordan—in other words, he convinced other veteran All-Stars to not pass the ball to this cocky rookie. Some allege Thomas' plan even extended to players on the opposing Western Conference team, although it's admittedly hard to see how; Johnson is generally believed to have been a party to the freeze-out. However, by the time of the 1992 Olympics, Johnson had worked to heal the breach between him and Jordan, unlike Thomas.
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