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Basketball Hall of Fame journalist Jack McCallum appears on a special extended episode of Basketball Journeys. His recently released Dream Team Tapes Podcast has topped the charts over the past few weeks.  Fueled by the success of the recent Last Dance documentary, the outstanding content McCallum produced brings basketball fans down memory lane.Irish Examiner sportswriter Kieran Shannon joins Pat Price in the studio, and the stories from McCallum fly fast a furious. The Sports Illustrated writer covers his appointment as the basketball writer for the publication in 1985, and the 30 years of writing since then , including covering Larry BIrd, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, and the legendary Dream Team who catapulted the NBA into the stratosphere with their performance at the 1992 Olympics.Was Isaiah Thomas' omission from the team strategic or personal? Jack goes into detail with plenty of first hand accounts of discussions with the main characters. We also hear the details of how compiling all of the interviews from that era led to the idea of launching the Dream Team Tapes Podcast. Who's the biggest influence on the next version of the Dream Team?  Jack has some theories.  Thanks again for listening.