‘DREAM TEAM: Birth Of The Modern Athlete’ Documentary Series Now Streaming On Paramount+

(CBS Local)- The 1992 Men’s Olympic Basketball Team, known arsenic the “Dream Team” has been a taxable of conversation, fascination and statement for years among sports fans. Now, a caller 5 portion documentary series, examining however the squad came unneurotic and its lasting interaction is disposable for hoops fans connected Paramount+.

“DREAM TEAM: Birth of the Modern Athlete” uses uncommon archival footage and ne'er earlier heard audio interviews with Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, Larry Bird and others successful summation to much caller interviews from Magic Johnson, Patrick Ewing and David Robinson to springiness penetration into the squad and its taste importance. The bid takes its assemblage done a taste past of basketball, going done the improvement of the NBA up to the ’92 Olympics and the maturation of the league and athletics since.

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DREAM TEAM is enforcement produced and directed by the Malloy brothers, Emmett and Brendan, and inspired by the publication “Dream Team” by sports writer Jack McCallum. McCallum is simply a shaper connected the bid and is interviewed passim the series.

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“The bosom of our bid is simply a immense container of micro-cassette tapes we recovered astatine seasoned SI writer Jack McCallum’s house,” said Emmett and Brendan Malloy successful a statement. “Those tapes amusement Barkley, Bird, Magic, and particularly Jordan, down closed doors: intimate and uncensored. They shared things with Jack that they ne'er told anyone else. This bid volition beryllium the archetypal clip those tapes person been heard publicly.”

The documentary bid is simply a Paramount Television Studios accumulation successful relation with the NBA, and is enforcement produced by The Malloys, Trevor Engelson (“Snowfall”), and Douglas Banker (“Lance”).

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All 5 40-minute episodes of the documentary bid are present disposable connected Paramount+.