Word: badalona
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plaza leading to the basketball venue in the gritty Barcelona suburb of Badalona is free of T-shirt hawkers, ticket scalpers and the sunburned masses sporting Cleveland Indians caps and L.A. Raiders shorts. The basketball junkies from the land of Johnson, Jordan, Bird and Barkley are still asleep. But inside the arena, there are large men, graceful and lithe, already hard at work. Their goals: silver, bronze or merely a good finish in the basketball tournament...
...Cunha deserves a medal for perseverance. In 1975 he started the Angolan basketball program. From scratch. In the 17 years since, he and his team have endured a war that virtually destroyed their nation. On the court they have put up with ridicule. For all who would listen in Badalona, Cunha had one message. "We can play. We can play," he repeated. No one thought so after the U.S. obliterated them by 68 points. But the next day, Angola led Germany, only to fall short by a point in the last minute. "We were very lucky," says German center Hansi...
...Arvydas Sabonis or three-point-shooter Rimas Kurtinaitis. Croatia's Drazen Petrovic, on the other hand, is a picador, launching shots like lances from all over the court. Those fans familiar with the Boston Celtics will also recognize 7-ft. 2-in. Stojko Vrankovic. In Badalona, at least, Vrankovic is an intimidating shot blocker. The Croatians are deeper than the Lithuanians, and both are more talented than the Australians. Says Croatian Danko Cvjeticanin: "We are the Dream Team of another part of the world." Not so fast, Danko. The Grateful Dead, admirers of Marciulionis, are backing the Lithuanians. They should...
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