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The 1992 Dream Team changed Olympic basketball

NBA professionals were allowed at the Games for the first time that year The United States team in Barcelona included Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Charles Barkley, and won its games by an average of nearly 44 points. The side was so popular that opponents asked for photographs before matches. After 1992, other countries began using their own professional players. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: NBA professionals were allowed at the Games for the first time that year. The figure is taken from Olympics.com, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.