Originally Posted by
mkirsh
As much as I love the 2008 team, it's hard to say the talent stacks up to the 92 team.
By position (roughly):
Stockton & Magic vs Kidd & Williams
Jordan, Drexler, & Mullin vs Kobe, Redd, Billups, and Miller
Pippen, Barkley & Bird vs Lebron & Anthony
Malone & Laettner vs Amare & Prince
Ewing & Robinson vs Howard & Chandler
I might take Kidd over a retired Magic, Kobe over Drexler, Lebron over an ailing Bird, and Carmello over Laettner, but I think the 92 team takes most of these matchups in a pretty big way. You could argue that the 2008 team has slightly better shooting, but I'd still rather take the 92 team to face Argentina, Greece, Spain, etc in the next Olympics.