In July, he attended the Barcelona Olympics with his wife and daughter and won a gold medal with the Dream Team.
However, Drexler wasn't heavily utilized during the Olympics, as his knee was constantly bothering him, and in the final match against the China Team, Beelman didn't give Drexler a chance to play.
This made Drexler uncomfortable; he believed Beelman was retaliating against him for being the former "traitor" of Portland. But in the end, they won the championship, and Drexler had nothing to say.
After the Olympics, Drexler heard some discussions about him. Players from the Dream Team were commenting behind his back, saying that Drexler wasted a lot of his talent.
Especially Jordan and Pippen, who bluntly expressed in an interview, "When we trained with Drexler, we realized that a star player from the same League trains so crudely. His attitude towards training seemed ridiculous to me. He's relying on his natural talent to play."
