The Dream Team
Meeting does not necessarily mean clashing.
In 1992, Magic and Jordan teamed up in Barcelona on the USA Basketball Olympic Team. The legendary team, better known as the Dream Team, that would go down as the greatest team in sports history. It featured the best players that generation of NBA had to offer, many of them among the greatest in history of basketball.
Although retired for the HIV virus, Magic could not miss such a historic roster. His Airness, obviously, topped the USAB’s recruiting list.
Easily the greatest backcourt ever. The best point guard and the best shooting guard in the history of the game. Can’t argue. The ultimate passer and the ultimate scorer. A former Defensive Player of the Year and a former steal leader. The tournament could not but be ultimately entertaining with those two spectacular players to lead that Hall of Fame selection.
The Dream Team won the gold medal destroying its adversaries, but the real games (one in particular) took place in closed practices, when the Americans split in two teams and scrimmaging one against the other. In the most famous, Magic led one team, Michael the other one, because they needed to confront and prove who was better.
According to many of the players who took part in that scrimmage, that was the greatest game ever played.