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Planet Hoop growing smaller.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
INDIANAPOLIS _ In 1992, the United States Olympic team crushed opponents and then posed for pictures with them.
That was the Dream Team, the greatest collection of basketball talent ever assembled. Their romp through the Barcelona Games sent a brash message: The best players on earth are American, and it's not even close.
A decade later it's getting closer.
Since Magic Johnson, Larry Bird and Michael Jordan led the Barcelona parade, basketball has traveled in a different direction, not in the United States but around the globe. The world is catching up, and one day the American pros are going to lose an international game.
The guys representing the United States at the World Championships, which resume today with the 12 teams that advanced to the second round, don't want to be there when it happens.
"We don't want the be the team that dropped the ball," said Raef LaFrentz, a former Kansas All-American.
Which makes the first World Championships played in the United States the most pressure-packed event in the nation's hoop history. Nothing less than the idea of American basketball supremacy is on the line.
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