Since that original Dream Team, five teams have participated on the global stage, with a sixth ready to roll into Rio this summer.
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On all but one occasion, Team USA came home with the gold -- yet you might be surprised to learn that the bronze-medal team, though the result was an unprecedented disaster, isn’t the worst Olympic squad we’ve seen in the past 24 years.
As for the best? Well, you can probably guess that one.
7: 2000’s gold-medal squad