YouTube Gold: The 1968 US Olympic Basketball Team

MEXICO - OCTOBER 12: Basketball: 1968 Summer Olympics, USA Michael Silliman (12) in action, getting loose ball vs YUG Trajko Rajkovic (7), Mexico City, MEX 10/12/1968The 1968 Basketball All-American team was pretty good to say the least: Lew Alcindor, later known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Elvin Hayes, Pete Maravich, UNC’s Larry Miller and Wes Unseld.

Four of the five are in the Hall of Fame now.

Lucius Allen, Bob Lanier, Calvin Murphy, JoJo White and Don May were on the second team and all those guys were in the NBA too.

None of them - not one - were on the 1968 US Olympic basketball team.

Some of it was because of a Black boycott of the Olympics. Hayes was focused on income for his family and so…