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Olympic Basketball: USA vs. USSR (1988.)

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5 minutes of celebrated historical basketball game won by ex-Soviet team (many Lithuanians included; Sabonis, Kurtinaitis, Homitchus, Marchulionis) that initialized USA Basketball organisation to seriously work on sending pro-ballers at Barcelona '92 Olympics. Soviets qualified to the olympic finals where they easily outplayed NBA-packed ex-Yugoslavia team(Petrovic, Kukoc, Radja, Paspalj, Divac, Vrankovic..)which surprised them in the 1st game of the olympic tournament...

Shared by ginger On 19th Dec 07

Website : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Z9NVMuNz_g...

 

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