When the Grateful Dead Helped Lithuania Win Olympic Bronze
There was no mistaking the Lithuanian basketball team at the 1992 Olympic Games they could easily be spotted wearing their bright tye-die uniforms with an image of a slam-dunking skeleton across the front. The explanation for the one-of-a-kind design could be traced back to a generous New York City design artist and the reigning experts on tie-dye themselves: the Grateful Dead.
In the aftermath of their break from the Soviet Union in 1990, the country of Lithuania was finally free, but strapped for cash, and that included funds for Olympic teams to travel to Barcelona for the 1992 Games. To raise money, Sarunas Marciulionis, a Lithuanian native who was then playing for the Golden State Warriors, and assistant coach Donnie Nelson launched a small, local fundraiser in the San Francisco Bay area, where a newspaper article about their plight caught the attention of the Dead s publicist, Dennis McNally. He showed it to the b
When the Grateful Dead Helped Lithuania Win Olympic Bronze
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