I caught up with him at Sidney Moncrief's alma mater
LITTLE ROCK — No other Dream Teamer ran the court with Christian Laettner on Saturday morning at Little Rock’s Hall High School.
No Michael Jordan, no Larry Bird or Magic Johnson from the U.S. national team that bedazzled the world while steamrolling to a gold medal in the 1992 Olympic basketball tournament.
No one near that good.
Instead, Laettner, the youngest player on that iconic collection of talent, served as a hoops sage this weekend for a group of basketball players - and a general manager - with dreams all their own.
For the past year, Laettner has run his own basketball academy business - a return to the game after stepping away following his 2005 retirement from a 13-year NBA career. The academy is based near his home in Jacksonville, Fla., where he recently met Bernard Brown, president of a new minor league pro basketball team in Little Rock.
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