The days of a Fernando Martin gushing
about the Americans’ basketball prowess are over.
If you don’t remember Martin, he was
the star of Spain’s basketball squad when they faced the United States of
America during the gold medal match of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. That was
the game where Michael Jordan, still a sophomore at the University of North
Carolina, wrote on a piece of yellow legal pad a message for then coach Bobby
Knight: “Coach, don’t worry. We’ve put up with too much shit to lose now.”
Knight forwent his pre-game speech and the US thrashed Spain 96-65 to win the
gold.
After that game, all Martin (who later
played 24 games for the Portland Trailblazers) could do was exclaim in halting
English, “Jordan… Jump, jump, jump. Very quick. Very fast.
Very, very good. jump, jump, jump." READ MORE
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