"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 said. "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," Bryant continued, the trace of a smile beginning to play its way across his face. "It'd be a tough one, but I think we'd pull it out."
Jordan laughed, Barkley laughed, Pippen disagreed and Magic Johnson had other thoughts, as did Stacey King and James Worthy, just to throw a few reactions from Dream Teamers and other former NBA players out there.
I'd say it's feasible that they could defeat the Dream Team in a game and after all, it's not like Kobe is going to say "Oh yeah, they'd wipe the floor with us". Still, I'd have to take the Dream Team eight or nine times out of ten. Contrary to Kobe's recollection, a lot of the players were under 30 and in their prime, not to mention the Dream Team would have a huge advantage with David Robinson and Patrick Ewing (as he did actually note). It's not a knock on the current Team USA, the Dream Team was simply an amazing squad of all-time greats and Christian Laettner. They're still my pick in this fantasy matchup...but what a game it would be.
