Olympic Basketball and The Grateful Dead
Tie-dyes and the re-birth of a nation
Bronze winners at the 1992 Olympics, the Lithuanian basketball team accept their medals wearing Grateful Dead tie-dyes.
"It was a victory of innocents," says Dennis McNally, the Grateful Dead's publicist, as he recalls the historic event in conversation with Sports History Weekly.
In 1992, the iconic Grateful Dead music band helped sponsor Lithuania’s nat…