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Patrick Ewing and Pat Riley couldn't beat Hakeem
Olajuwon in 1994. This weekend, they will join him.
Those three basketball giants headline the 2008 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame induction class, which also includes Adrian Dantley, Elmwood Park's Dick Vitale, Cathy Rush and Bill Davidson
Before there was a monument outside the Toyota
Center, before a Hall of Fame career, before two
championships, before Phi Slama Jama, there was a skinny 17-year-old kid sitting on a gym floor one hot afternoon in Lagos, Nigeria. As the coach spoke, he ...
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Pat Riley and Hakeem Olajuwon are among seven
to be inducted tonight. >
This Friday, the Basketball Hall of Fame will
enshrine seven new members: Adrian Dantley, William Davidson, Patrick
Ewing, Hakeem Olajuwon, Pat Riley, Cathy Rush and Dick Vitale. Each of these inductees has an interesting life story but Olajuwon's is certainly the most remarkable and unlikely.
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In 1995, David Robinson led the San Antonio
Spurs to a league best 62 regular season wins.
Robinson averaged 28 points, 11 rebounds, 3 assists, 3 blocks, and shot 53% from the field in his MVP season. Feeling he had been slighted after averaging 28 ...
You won’t find a better blog chronicling Houston's
playoff dreams than The Dream Shake, named in honor
of everyone’s favorite Rocket. The Dream Shake is curated by David Clark and Lee Grammier, two rabid Rockets fans who live and die with their team and know as much about them as anybody in the blogosphere. ETB is proud to present ten questions and ten answers with Mr. Lee Grammier.
Hakeem Olajuwon gives a little info about his
career and explains his signature move...the Dream Shake.Houston RocketsSan
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Browsing through the (H)Akeem Olajuwon videos on YouTube
I stumbled across this gem from the NBA Superstars
series. Enjoy The Dream in all his glory, with some of his greatest highlights set to the funky-fresh stylings of Kool Moe Dee pumping out his jam “How Ya Like Me Now.”
I say was because there's no way I
can see our land-locked friend getting up on those
bars now, but Eddy Curry was indeed at one time an aspiring gymnast. Turns out the wiki entry Skeets found was correct.







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