The 2008 Beijng Olympics capped a great 2008 for Kobe Bryant. Hundreds of millions of Chinese tuned into the games on television, and Kobe Bryant, the popular Los Angeles Lakers player, was greeted everywhere he went in Beijing to chants of “Kobe! Kobe! Kobe!”
Kobe Bryant Olympic Gold Medal Winner 2008
Performed for the 1983 NBA All-Star Game, Marvin Gaye’s remix captured the passion of 80s soul, mixed it with some old fashioned patriotism and created a timeless classic. And like Marvin and the Dream Team before them, this year’s Team USA Basketball intends to put on a show that will forever go down as one the greatest performances in the history of the sport.
Nike Basketball brings Marvin, LeBron James, Kobe, Jason Kidd and the rest of the team together to pay homage to basketball, America’s game.