Waking from the Dream
大梦方觉醒<二>

But most of all, we embraced them and their athletic, artistic game as our favorites.
embrace
v.采用；接受

Yet at the start of the 21st century, the old gang is starting to thin out. One by one, some have already left the court. But to those still out there hooping as the last NBA season of the millennium began - from Ewing, Robinson, Pippen, Mullin, Stockton to Malone, Olajuwon to Barkley - consider this an old-school appreciation of the last of a remarkable generation.
v. 使稀薄, 使稀疏
hoop
v. 加箍于, 环绕

By the time they had all gathered for that first historic team picture, the hoop world had already begun its substantial, meteoric change. It was the summer of 1992, and the greatest basketball team ever assembled -- America's Olympic "Dream Team" -- was preparing to send the popularity of professional basketball into an even dizzier trajectory: total globalization.
meteoric
adj 流星的 流星般的（比喻转瞬即逝）； 疾速的
meteoric career 流星般的一生

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