Michael Jordan: Kobe Bryant’s comparison of 2012 Olympic squad to Dream Team ‘laughable’

　　Give Kobe Bryant credit. The guy doesn’t lack confidence — and he and the rest of the U.S. men’s basketball team will carry plety of it to London for the Olympics.

　　Asked how the 2012 Olympic roster would match up with the original 1992 “Dream Team,” Bryant made a bold statement.

　　“Well, just from a basketball standpoint, they obviously have a lot more size than we do — you know, with (David) Robinson and (Patrick) Ewing and (Karl) Malone and those guys,” Bryant told Yahoo Sports at Team USA’s training camp in Las Vegas earlier this week. “But they were also — some of those wing players — were also a lot older, at kind of the end of their careers. We have just a bunch of young racehorses, guys that are eager to compete.

　　“So I don’t know. It’d be a tough one, but I think we’d pull it out.”

　　“I absolutely laughed,” Michael Jordan  told the Associated Press when asked how he responded to Bryant’s assertion.

　　“For him to compare those two teams is not one of the smarter things he ever could have done.”

　　Of course, Jordan has never had a hubris deficiency either. And his response before a celebrity golf tournament in Charlotte shows he hasn’t lost anything in that department.

　　“Most of us were in the prime of our careers, at a point where athleticisim doesn’t really matter. You have to know how to play the game, ” said Jordan, who was quick to note he was 29 at the 1992 Olympics. At 33, Bryant is the oldest player on the 2012 team.