🏀 Autographed/Signed Larry Bird United States USA Blue 1992 Dream Team Basketball Jersey Beckett BAS COA – The Authenticated In-Person Signature of Larry Bird, Three-Time NBA Champion, Three-Time MVP, and a Member of the 1992 United States Olympic “Dream Team” – Widely Considered the Greatest Basketball Team Ever Assembled

🏀 There is a moment in the summer of 1992 in Barcelona, Spain, where the arc of basketball history bends in a way that no one who watched it has ever been able to forget. The United States Olympic Committee had sent NBA players to the Olympics for the first time in the sport's history, assembling a roster of professional players whose individual accomplishments would have made any one of them the most celebrated athlete at any other Games in any other sport – and they all arrived together, in the same blue uniform, to play a tournament that the entire basketball world had been anticipating since the announcement of the roster. Michael Jordan. Magic Johnson. Charles Barkley. Patrick Ewing. Scottie Pippen. Clyde Drexler. Karl Malone. John Stockton. Chris Mullin. David Robinson. Christian Laettner. And Larry Bird – the man from French Lick, Indiana, whose back had been ending his playing career in slow motion and who arrived in Barcelona to play what amounted to his farewell on the world stage, at the side of players he had competed against and alongside for fifteen years in the NBA.

🏀 Larry Bird was born December 7, 1956, in West Baden Springs, Indiana, a small southwestern Indiana community near French Lick that produced the player who most purely embodied the ideal of a cerebral basketball competitor. He played at Indiana State University, where he led the Sycamores to the 1979 NCAA Championship Game in one of the most anticipated college basketball finales of that era – a showdown with Michigan State's Magic Johnson that launched both careers into the professional league simultaneously and set the stage for the most compelling rivalry of the 1980s NBA. With the Boston Celtics, Bird won three NBA championships (1981, 1984, 1986), three consecutive MVP awards (1984, 1985, 1986), and two NBA Finals MVP awards, constructing a body of work that placed him in the permanent conversation about the greatest players in the history of the sport. The 1992 Dream Team gave him one final stage, and he delivered in the manner of a player who had been performing at the highest level for his entire adult life.

🏀 This USA blue 1992 Dream Team basketball jersey carries Larry Bird's in-person signature, authenticated by Beckett Authentication Services (BAS) with a Certificate of Authenticity (COA). The blue uniform of the 1992 USA Olympic team is one of the most iconic pieces of basketball apparel in the history of the sport, the jersey worn by the greatest assembled team the game has produced. Condition: NOS.

🏀 Larry Bird. West Baden Springs, Indiana. Indiana State University. Boston Celtics. Small Forward. 3x NBA Champion (1981, 1984, 1986). 3x NBA MVP (1984, 1985, 1986). 1992 USA Olympic Dream Team. Autographed USA Blue Jersey. Beckett BAS COA. Hall of Fame Sports Memorabilia. Condition: NOS.