![]() In 1980, I got on this elevator and watched it grow. I parachuted into a time in basketball that’s hard to find a comparable time. I wanted to do other things, but I understand what those guys did for me. “They wondered, ‘Are you tired of glamming on Dream Team?’ It was a big part of my SI career, the book, people always ask about them, now the podcast. “Somebody asked me a cruel but fair question,” McCallum said. ![]() The podcast debuted this month on iHeartRadio. He wrote many stories, from the time FIBA (international basketball’s governing body) voted in 1989 to allow professionals to play in the Olympics, to the crafting of SI’s famous cover story (and photo) - through which the “Dream Team” was thrust into America’s consciousness forever - to his 2012 book about the best basketball team ever assembled, and a series of eight podcasts centered around his audio interviews with those on and around that famous team. ![]()
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