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ooooaaaah! · Jun 30, 2014

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I will add three things here.

1) Those are some insane numbers even by a young Akeem. I never understood the myth that I have seen some people propagate that he was not that good early on and became dominant only in early-mid 90s. He was dominant from the very beginning. You dont put up those kind of numbers and dethrone the WC champs if you are not dominant.

It is a shame that atleast 6 of his years were wasted by a team that broke down for various reasons and the management that could not rebuild quickly enough around him and wasted his talent.

2) As I said, the numbers he put early on were insane. But what makes those numbers even more remarkable is if you consider that he hadn't picked up a basketball until only a few years earlier. He began playing basketball at the age of 16. He could not even play on the team at UH when he first got there because he was so raw. To pick a new sport up, not even be able to play at the university level initially, and then in a matter of 3-4 years become so good so as to dethrone a Magic/Kareem/Worthy led WC champions in his second year as a pro is incredible.

3) Lastly, I wish there was NBA coverage during his career like we have today (internet, TV, social media etc etc.). People would be able to watch him play and talk about him and most probably come to the same conclusion that I have.....

Michael Jordan and Hakeem Olajuwon were two of the most complete players ever to play in the NBA. They dominated both ends of the court, were fierce competitors, did not have any glaring weaknesses to their game, dominated their position and their counter parts, and more importantly, as good as they were in the regular season, both took their game to a completely different level once the playoffs started.

Both were once-in-a-lifetime-player and I feel privileged to have followed their careers.
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It's not a myth that he became better. He was selfish and didn't make people better. Jordan went through the same thing. As a counter, Duncan never had that problem.

Love Hakeem, he was so good that Houston has never complained about picking him over the best player of all time.

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