Sports' Forgotten Heroes

Sports' Forgotten Heroes


71: U.S. Olympic Men's Basketball Team

December 10, 2019

The 1936 Olympic Games were the first in which basketball was played, and as you might expect, the U.S. captured Gold – and it wasn’t even close. But the controversy that surrounded the games and the basketball tournament was huge. Andrew Maraniss who just released a new book, “Games of Deception,” is on SFH for an in-depth conversation about the first-ever U.S. Men’s Basketball team and all the controversy that surrounded it, the games and the Olympics.


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