The old guys Kobe is talking about is probably Bird....Bird has been the old slow guy since he was on a farm in Indiana somewhere, but he still found a way to destroy you.

Kobe is a disrespectful ass.....he's old enough to rememeber playing against those guys. He needs to humble himself

ChuckBuck wrote:First of all you can't teach size. Second of all, MJ, Barkley, Malone, Ewing, Robinson, Drexler, Pippen were in their absolute primes.

http://espn.go.com/olympics/summer/2012/basketball/story/_/id/8158008/charles-barkley-says-1992-dream-team-beat-2012-olympic-team-double-digits

Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Updated: July 12, 9:12 AM ET
Charles Barkley fires back at Kobe
ESPN.com news services

"Well, just from a basketball standpoint, they obviously have a lot more size than we do -- you know, with (David) Robinson and (Patrick) Ewing and (Karl) Malone and those guys," Bryant told Yahoo! Sports on Wednesday. "But they were also -- some of those wing players -- were also a lot older, at kind of the end of their careers. We have just a bunch of young racehorses, guys that are eager to compete.
"So I don't know. It'd be a tough one, but I think we'd pull it out."
In an interview on The Mike Missanelli Show on 97.5 The Fanatic Philadelphia, Dream Team member Charles Barkley said his squad would win by double digits.
"Oh yeah, that's no disrespect," Barkley said. "I ain't got to badmouth them. But like I said, their point guards weren't going to beat us. That's a no-brainer."
Barkley also brushed aside Bryant's comments about the Dream Team's age.
"I just started laughing," Barkley said. "How old is Kobe Bryant? He's 34? And he's calling us old? At the time, we were only like 28, 29. Michael Jordan and me were the same age. We were both 29. ...
"Other than Kobe, LeBron (James) and Kevin Durant, I don't think anybody else on that team makes our team."

Kobe talking out his ass like the arrogant ******* prick he is.

got to agree with both Chucks !
Chuck here and Barkley

Dunno what the experienced Kobe was thinking. Its ok to say his current team would compete
but skillwise and basics the Dream team would squash this team on 'know how' smarts alone. Few games competitive

It would take 1 yr for Kobe's current team to figure out the Barcelone USA Team
then and only then would Kobe team have a chance to win

I think the team that had a healthy penny and grant hill could beat the current dream team. The team that had Vince jump over Weis could beat the current team as well....

sometimes you just need to be quiet....cuz yes it's going to get thrown out of proportion by the media and crzy fans like me

Thursday, July 12, 2012
Michael Jordan: Dream Team better
Associated Press

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Michael Jordan said there's no way Kobe Bryant and this year's USA Olympic basketball team could've beaten the 1992 Dream Team.
Jordan told The Associated Press Thursday that he laughed -- "I absolutely laughed" -- when hearing Bryant's comments that the U.S. squad training in Las Vegas could take Jordan and company.
Jordan said there's "no comparison" which team is better.
"For him to compare those two teams is not one of the smarter things he ever could have done," Jordan said prior to playing in a celebrity golf tournament in Charlotte.
Jordan said the 1992 team, which included 11 future Hall of Famers and won its six Olympic games by an average of more than 43 points en route to capturing the gold medal, was a better overall team largely because of the experience it put on the floor.
"I heard Kobe say we were not athletic," said a smiling Jordan as he sat in a golf cart puffing on his cigar while waiting to tee off. "But we were smart. He said we were too old, but I was 29 and in the prime of my career. Pip (Scottie Pippen) was 26 or 27, (Charles) Barkley was 29, Patrick (Ewing) was 29 and Chris Mullin was 29. Almost everybody was still in their 20s."
Jordan's response came after Bryant told reporters in Las Vegas that this year's team could pull out a win against the Dream Team if they faced each other in their primes. Bryant said this year's team has a "bunch of racehorses, players who are incredibly athletic, while the Dream Team consisted mainly of players at the tail end of their careers."
Bryant's comments received immediate and sharp rebuttal from some members of the Dream Team, including Barkley.
Jordan joined in on Thursday.
"Most of us were in the prime of our careers, at a point where athleticism doesn't really matter," said Jordan, the owner of the Charlotte Bobcats. "You have to know how to play the game."
Jordan shook his head when asked why he thinks Bryant made the comments.
"I imagine he's trying to say it to legitimize his own Dream Team," Jordan said. "But to me it's not even a question what team is better."
Jordan said Bryant is certainly entitled to his opinion -- even though he said it's just plain wrong.
"For him to make that comparison, it's one of those things where it creates conversation," Jordan said. "I guess we'll never know. I'd like to think that we had 11 Hall of Famers on that team, and whenever they get 11 Hall of Famers, you call and ask me who had the better Dream Team. Remember now, they learned from us. We didn't learn from them."

Kobe just trying to self-validate his greatness as usual. Both MJ and Kobe supreme dickheads, Kobe just more extroverted and public with his assholisms.

Still same result
POW! bang knock out, maybe today team win 1 game in 7 game best of 4
only cause of Lebron and maybe 1 other star

K22 wrote:

ChuckBuck wrote:People forget how athletic and quick Barkley was for his size. He could rebound in traffic, start the break, outlet to one of the guards, and still be the one to finish the break. He would be an absolute load for anyone on the 2012 team to handle.

And he's what... 6'4" - 6'5" tops?

Probably 6'6 with sneakers, yup.

http://espn.go.com/olympics/summer/2012/basketball/story/_/id/8205408/lebron-james-says-united-states-olympic-team-beat-1992-dream

Friday, July 27, 2012
LeBron: We would beat Dream Team
ESPN.com news services

LeBron James has joined Kobe Bryant in saying that he believes this year's Team USA Olympic basketball team could beat the 1992 Dream Team.
Days before the current U.S. squad takes the court in London, James made his boast in a recent television interview.
"As a competitor you never want to say that you will lose no matter who you are going against," James told ABC News "Nightline" anchor Cynthia McFadden.
James also showed his respect to the iconic 1992 team, which was led by Michael Jordan and included 11 future Hall of Famers. That team won its six Olympic games by an average of more than 43 points en route to capturing the gold medal.
"The '92 Dream Team paved the way for all of us ... We understand what they did for our game, but we also are big-time competitors as well, so if we got the opportunity to play them in a game we feel like we would win too," James said.
James' comments echoed those of Bryant, who two weeks ago made virtually the same proclamation.
"It would be a tough one but I think we would pull it out," Bryant said at a news conference. "People who think we can't beat that team for one game, they are crazy. To sit there and say we can't, it's ludicrous. We can beat them one time."
Bryant's comments received immediate and sharp rebuttal from some members of the Dream Team. Jordan told The Associated Press he laughed when he heard of Bryant's comments.
"For him to compare those two teams is not one of the smarter things he ever could have done," Jordan said.
President Barack Obama also weighed in on the topic.
"This is a generational thing," Obama said during a halftime interview with ESPN2 as it broadcast an exhibition game between the U.S. and Brazil earlier this month. "I was around in '92, I was a Bulls fan, so I've got to go with the original Dream Team."
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.

We get that these aholes are competitors, but to say you can beat the greatest team ever assembled, is like saying Pepsi is better than Coke, Myspace better than Facebook, Floyd Mayweather greater than Mohammed Ali, Handskies are better than Blowskies, Green Lantern better than The Dark Knight Rises. Just shutup and play and let the Historians decide.