Such a model, the ideal balance of individual and group identity, was once seen in a group of sixteen-and seventeen-year-old boys, Bosniaks, Croatians, and Serbs, who came together in 1984 to play for the Yugoslavian junior national basketball team, a team that was to become a legend. For four years this group was invincible, a dream team of young players who never lost a game in formal international competition on the court, and who grew up together off the court, forging deep friendships as they traveled together, roomed together, trained hard, and shared each other’s lives. Their sense of
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