Listen now (31 min) | This is the untold story of how ice baths moved from Moscow to the NBA. It was 1986. Geneva, Switzerland. Worried that the U.S. and the Soviet Union were close to World War III, Ronald Reagan announced a giant cultural exchange. Journalists, professors, and sports teams would board planes to make friends and, hopefully, bring peace.
TrueHoop Podcast: The cold war in a tub
Listen now (31 min) | This is the untold story of how ice baths moved from Moscow to the NBA. It was 1986. Geneva, Switzerland. Worried that the U.S. and the Soviet Union were close to World War III, Ronald Reagan announced a giant cultural exchange. Journalists, professors, and sports teams would board planes to make friends and, hopefully, bring peace.
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