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Home > Sports > Winter/Summer Games > Summer Games 2012 London > Summer Games/ Basketball

Olympic Basketball Tickets

Olympic Basketball has provided some of the most thrilling moments in the history of the Games. Most prominent, of course, is the "Dream Team" which dominated the 1992 Games: with Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Karl Malone, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Patrick Ewing, and Charles Barkley on the US men's basketball team utterly destroyed its opponents, winning by an average of 43.8 points every game. Of the Dream Team's 12 players and 4 coaches, all but two would go on to become members of the NBA Hall of Fame. Since then, Olympic hockey has provided fans with the opportunity to see amazing, dramatic games and some of the best playing in the world, bar none.

Basketball as played in the Olympics is very similar to NBA basketball: two teams consisting of five players attempt to throw a ball through the opposing team's net. To move with the ball, players must bounce and catch it; to run while holding the ball is called "traveling" and results in a penalty. Olympic and international basketball, as opposed to NBA basketball, is played in four quarters of ten minutes apiece, leading to a more fast-paced game.