Video: Fabled 1992 Dream Team scrimmage felt like a Game 7

This is an epic story about a scrimmage game -- yes, a scrimmage game.

Since when can we get away with using "epic" to describe a scrimmage game? When it's between members of the 1992 Dream Team.

Three days before the greatest team ever assembled steam rolled to gold at the Barcelona Olympics, an intrasquad game took place between the host of eventual Hall of Famers.

Michael Jordan's team vs. Magic Johnson's team.

We'd heard about it, knew it was on film, but we'd never seen it -- until now, 20 years later.

On one side, you had Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Chris Mullin, Larry Bird, and Patrick Ewing. Opposing them was Magic, Charles Barkley, John Stockton, Karl Malone, David Robinson, and Clyde Drexler.

Where did Christian Laettner fit in? Nowhere, apparently.

"We gave them the college guy. You can have Christian Laettner," Johnson recalled. "We don't want him. You can have him."

As Jordan remembers it.

"(Laetner's) just over there waiting to tag in," he said, "but it was about pride. And a college kid couldn't help out either one of the teams."

Coach Chuck Daly didn't want this scrimmage to be light. He wanted it to serve as a final tuneup to the Olympics. And by all accounts, this scrimmage had the feel of a Game 7 -- complete with plenty of trash talk.

Turns out Jordan's team put a lick on Magic's team. Jordan rubbed it in a bit afterward.

"Larry and I were talking," Johnson said, "and Michael walks in, and he says, 'There's a new sheriff in town.' And (Larry and I) both hit each other like, 'Well, he's not lying.'"

This is the stuff of legends, folks. Enjoy the video.