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Yahoo
2 days ago
- Sport
- Yahoo
"He just came down and hit the next 5 shots in a row" - Magic Johnson on the trash talk moment that pushed Jordan to go all out in famous Dream Team practice
"He just came down and hit the next 5 shots in a row" - Magic Johnson on the trash talk moment that pushed Jordan to go all out in famous Dream Team practice originally appeared on Basketball Network. Various stories have been told of that legendary scrimmage in Monte Carlo, the kind of mythic run that sits somewhere between lore and history in the collective memory of basketball fans. It wasn't televised, and there were no fans, just the best players on Earth pushing each other past the edge of greatness inside a gym overseas in the summer of 1992. Advertisement And yet, despite the absence of cameras, that practice became one of the most documented off-record games the sport has ever known. Jordan's fire From the lens of Hall of Famer Magic Johnson, simple trash talk ignited something and made the scrimmage highly competitive. "One thing I did that got Michael Jordan going is we were up about 10 points, and I went over and said, 'Michael, if you don't turn into Air Jordan, we gonna blow you out,'" Johnson said. "What did I say that for?… He just came down and hit the next five shots in a row, and it was amazing." The gravity of that moment didn't exist in isolation. It was a byproduct of a genius move from head coach Chuck Daly, who sensed something missing from the Dream Team's early tune-ups. The players were already dominating their Olympic warm-up opponents. Advertisement The solution was to create internal competition. Daly drew a line: East vs. West. And the atmosphere in the Monte Carlo gym shifted. The teams were stacked with Hall of Famers: Johnson and the superstars from the West, and Michael Jordan and the superstars from the East. There were no fans in the stands, but it might as well have been Game 7 of the Finals in there. This was about supremacy — within the squad, within the league, within the era. Jordan had a personal edge walking into the scrimmage, and it wasn't just Johnson. It hadn't been long since the 1992 NBA Finals, where the Chicago Bulls faced Clyde Drexler and the Portland Trail Blazers. Much had been made of Drexler as Jordan's equal; even Johnson had publicly praised the matchup beforehand. Jordan responded with a 35-point first half in Game 1, including six 3-pointers, then a record. That wasn't forgotten. So there was residue when Drexler lined up opposite Jordan in the Dream Team's intrasquad game. This was just one of the number of personal rivalries on show in that scrimmage. Taking over Before the Olympics and even before the scrimmage tipped, Jordan had approached Johnson alongside Larry Bird — the twin pillars of the NBA throughout the 1980s — and told them that there was a new sheriff in town and wanted to walk the talk. Advertisement "I got a chance to really see Air Jordan," Johnson said. Because once that trash talk hit him, Jordan erupted. He came with precision executions, rising against the hand, backed by a will that had decided not to be mocked. By the end of the run, Jordan had turned a 10-point deficit into a lead. He had orchestrated stops, called out coverages, and even demanded who he would guard. The gym fell silent in those stretches, not from awe but from sheer focus. Players like Charles Barkley would later say it was the best basketball they'd ever been part of. The East vs West divide had faded. It was now Jordan vs everyone, and he was winning. Coach Daly let it all happen without interruption. He didn't blow the whistle. He didn't stop the run. Because even he knew something rare was unfolding. That 1992 practice became a time capsule of the game's transition and the future dominance of the Dream Team. Advertisement Related: Magic Johnson says Dream Team started his friendship with Michael Jordan: "I could throw it anywhere, he was going to go get it and dunk it" This story was originally reported by Basketball Network on Jun 8, 2025, where it first appeared.
The Independent
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Independent
Musk shares footage of Trump partying with Jeffrey Epstein as feud intensifies
Elon Musk has shared a video of Donald Trump partying with the disgraced paedophile Jeffrey Epstein in 1992. Footage from a NBC broadcast shows the future president and Mr Epstein surrounded by dancing women, with Mr Trump gesturing to one and mouthing 'she's hot'. Mr Musk shared the clip on Thursday (5 June), after claiming that the president has not made Epstein files public because he features in them. The world's most powerful men are currently embroiled in a public feud after the SpaceX billionaire criticised Mr Trump's signature tax bill. Mr Musk has called for the president's impeachment, whilst Mr Trump has threatened to cancel all of the Tesla owner's government contracts.
The Guardian
02-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
When the Phone Rang review – meditation on memory, displacement and the trauma of exile
Hovering between memoir, docu-essay and drama, Serbian artist Iva Radivojević's third feature opens with a phone call that changes everything. Eleven-year-old Lana (a proxy for Radivojević, played by Natalija Ilinčić) receives the news that her grandfather has died; home alone, she is told by the speaker to communicate that to her mother. The Bakelite clock on the wall says it is precisely 10.36am on a Friday in 1992, 'when the country of X was still a country'. Friday 10.36am 1992 becomes a point and a rift in time, through which the historical erupts into the personal; a more intimate companion piece, perhaps, to the 2006 Romanian new wave classic 12.08 East of Bucharest. The news of Lana's grandfather's death melds with the start of the Yugoslavian war (perhaps the two events are linked, as he was a retired colonel). Suitcases are packed; Lana, in her memory always wearing a pink Nike shell suit, is driven by her father to the airport, presumably to emigrate. With these dramatised fragments – as well as ones of everyday Serbian life – threaded together in a third-person narration later revealed to be hers, Lana seems to be reconstructing her own exiled past. There's something detached but obsessive about these remembrances, contained and framed like keepsakes by Radivojević in a tight 4:3 ratio. Her focus on the every day – tailing strangers with her mate Jova (Anton Augustinov), playing piano down the phone for another friend, her fascination with local junkie Vlada (Vasilije Zečević) – conveys the general state of denial in the face of impending war: 'a pressure in the air'. The stream of minutiae also shows Lana's need to preserve this lost reality and, through her insistent commentary, give it significance; sifting through it breeds strange slippages and correspondences. The western pop music that interrupts a Serbian concert she watches with Vlada prefigures her new life. A story about her father's mafia dealings dovetails with her reaction to a TV production of Carmen she watches immediately after the fateful phone call; both contain 'just enough unbelievable drama to keep her entertained'. But the drama of Lana's own life remains off-screen and implied, always slipping between the fingers of this disquieting meditation on memory and exile. When the Phone Rang is at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, from 6 June
Times
20-05-2025
- Sport
- Times
Treasured memories of my (small) part in Zimbabwe cricket's golden age
I am reliably informed that Zimbabwe's media officer for this week's Test against England at Trent Bridge is a chap called Darlington Majonga, and I am certain that he will do a much better job than the media officer for Zimbabwe's inaugural Test against India at Harare Sports Club in 1992. That's because that person, bizarrely, was me. Talk about utterly clueless. It was my third season playing club cricket in Zimbabwe and news of my part-time scribbling had clearly spread, but quite how that might have translated into any sort of suitability for this role was a mystery. My chief task was to ensure that no outgoing phone calls were made from the press box (which was no more than a sheltered annex on
WebMD
16-05-2025
- Health
- WebMD
What Friends Ask Me About Diabetes
As someone who was diagnosed with gestational diabetes in 1984 and full-blown diabetes not long after my second pregnancy in 1992, it's easy to forget the shock of first getting the news that you have type 2. As I've written before, I went home from that first doctor's appointment stunned and scared, worried not only about myself, but my unborn child. But in the years since, as I've lived and learned more about the symptoms and signs of the chronic disease and how my body reacts to carbohydrates, exercise, and medication, my fear has eased. It was replaced by a desire to figure out the best way to live as a person with diabetes. It hasn't been easy. I'm not always successful at keeping my sugars in range, or in avoiding foods that I know will boost my readings (I'm looking at you, Haagen Dazs chocolate chip). Yet, overall, I have headed off many of diabetes' dreaded complications so far (knock on wood) and generally feel able to do most of my normal activities, which include weightlifting, walking, and cycling. I was reminded of all of this when a friend came to me, newly diagnosed with LADA (latent autoimmune diabetes in adults) and frightened by the idea of having to wrestle with the disease. Meanwhile, a second pal, who has been prediabetic for a while, suddenly was confronted by an A1c of 7, which pushed her into full-blown type 2. Despite their two different varieties of diabetes diagnoses, both had been advised to watch their diets and given prescriptions of metformin to help lower their glucose levels. Though they had met with their doctors, they had questions. And while I'm not a medical doctor, I tried to allay some of their fears. Among their issues: Should I take a biguanide? Everyone is, of course, different. I've had friends who don't take them right away and try diet and exercise, and those who choose to go on them when they are still considered in the 'prediabetes' stage. As someone who has been taking them forever, I'm a fan. They're cheap, extremely well-tested, and may have other benefits in preventing breast cancer as well as anti-aging properties. Although I've never experienced side effects, at the start some people experience upset stomachs, but generally, it's worked well for me. Do I have to live this way forever? Some people, by severely restricting carbohydrates and adding lots of exercise to their lives (particularly if they had been overdoing food and not exercising beforehand) may be able to 'reverse diabetes.' But while I follow a balanced, mainly low-carb diet and get an hour of some sort of exercise every day, that hasn't happened for me. As a person with type 2 diabetes who has never been overweight (save for a year after the birth of my second child when those pesky pounds refused to move), I still have well-controlled type 2. Do you ever get used to pricking your finger two, three, or four times a day? Yes, and no. To be honest, I don't think anyone loves stabbing themselves to squeeze out blood in the morning, noon, or night. Luckily, there are new technologies that measure your blood sugar for you and give you a more accurate ongoing idea of your glucose ups and downs over a day and night. I've not yet opted for one, but more and more, I see the small, unobtrusive stick-on cubes on the upper arms of both young and old people. So if mechanically drawing a drop of blood from your finger freaks you out, you do have options. Will I eventually have to take insulin? Once again, it depends. With the newer injectable diabetes drugs on the market – and a weight loss pill waiting in the wings – people who once couldn't lose pounds or lower their blood sugars may be able to avoid insulin by getting everything in better range. For people with LADA, the chances of needing insulin are higher, since in this form of diabetes, the pancreas stops making insulin, more like type 1 than type 2. Two personal notes here: I took insulin during my second pregnancy, and it really was not a big deal. It allowed me to better manage my sugars, and by using fast-acting insulin, I was able to eat the occasional cup of ice cream. Unless you have a terrific fear of needles, insulin pens are quite small and go into fat, not muscle, which means they are not – honestly – at all painful. What else? Watch out for stress. Sometimes, your sugar can be high without reason, and sometimes, it can go low. The more you pay attention to your patterns (Does it jump after eating a certain fruit? Does it drop after a particular exercise class?), the more you can try avoiding these extremes. Getting a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes is scary. But with new drugs, new technologies, and a little attention to your diet and exercise, you can fight the fear and take charge. Like I tell my friends, it's not easy, but well worth it.
