Atually he was mostly 38 and 39 the most time he played with the Wizards since he turned 40 towards the end of his last season on February 17, 2003 and since the team didn't make the playoff that year barely played three month in his 40's.  The team didn't make the playoff a year before that either.  So, yeah one of the greatest players of all time finishing his last two season on a team that didn't even come close to the playoffs is pretty laughable.  Jason Kidd should have finished his career in Dallas but at least he went to a team that has a slightly better change of making it further into the playoffs then the Mavs next season.

'92 Dream Team is the best sports team ever... forget Basketball. They are the single best full team of any sporting event to ever be created. Pure win in any sense of the word... and above all Jordan stood tall. I don't care what combination you put today's team vs them, it would still have been a 30 or more point win.

Besides the sheer amount of talent on the original Dream Team, people forget about how the rules were before 1999. Most of the 2012 players would get bullied out to the perimiter, and since the 1992 team were taller overall, jumpshots would be extremely difficult.

Exactly. The rules have changed in the 20 years since; basketball was defnitely more  pysical and the fouls that are called now require a lot less intensity and force than what  would have earned you a whistle in 1992.

The Dream Team was blowing out teams by 30 to 60!!!! point margins with ease. No, nothing will ever be better than that team. All clutch killers on that squad. The 2012 team maybe has 2 of those.

Yes, the U.S. Women's National Basketball Team. lol

I assumed they would be playing by international rules.   Which haven't changed really. 

Also, the foreign teams of today would DESTROY the foreign teams of the Dream Teams day.

International basketball has RIDICULIOUSLY improved since then.

I mean... who was even the best Foreign Born player that played in the 1992 olympics?   Vlade Divac?

Back then there were like... 20 foreign players total.   Now they make up 20% of the NBA.

Also worth noting... the 1992 Dream Team's entire strategy was basically "Lets use our superior size and atheleticism to grab rebounds and run fast breaks."

The 2012 team, while not as skilled, is far more atheletlic.

I think the 1992 team would win... but not by playing like it did in the Olympics...

and I think it'd be close.   In a 10 game series i'd put it at a 7-3/6-4 Split.

U-Conn's womens basketball team?

I mean, they've just recently got some challenges, but their run is ridiculiously dominant.

North Carolina's womens soccer team won something like 14 championships in 17 years or something crazy like that too.

The Celtics of course had 11 championships in 13 seasons... but lets be honest... they had a lot of challenges.

Nobody on this years team is close to retirement on the 1992 team Bird and Magic pretty much where already retired.  Still think the 1992 Olympic team was the best the 1972 team was the worst no one of the team was even close to being a hall of famer no wonder they lost to the soviets by one point in gold metal game they really should have lost by more then that.

Was going to say this, the point spread is even greater.

I wasn't old enough to watch the Dream Team play but many people overrate the team, they were playing very very weak competition. The International basketball scene is much tougher now than it was in 1992. It was probably the equivalent of playing a weak college team for the dream team. Now you have international teams that have multiple NBA calibur players.

I think the Dream Team would beat the current team but for some reason I am thinking the current team would obliterate the 1992 interational teams even more.

he was 40 when he played for the wizards..... why are you comparing that? and his career as an executive has nothing to do with his career as a player.