1972 Olympics Basketball Final USA - USSR

It may have been only a basketball game, but this Cold War era matchup didn’t exactly help to ease tensions between the Americans and Soviets. Coming well before the Dream Team, when U.S. pros laced up their sneakers for Olympic hoop action, Team USA’s 1972 roster was made up only of amateur athletes. Until then, the U.S. had never lost in Olympic men’s basketball. Naturally, that made them the favorites going into the matchup with the Soviet Union. The Soviets, however, were a talented bunch. Unlike Team U