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When Shaquille O'Neal was little -- 6 ft. 11 in. or so -- he sneaked through a back door of the HemisFair Arena in San Antonio, Texas, to get the autograph of his favorite player, center Hakeem ("the Dream") Olajuwon of the Houston Rockets. It was the first time that the 16-year-old O'Neal had met Olajuwon, who was 26 at the time. "I was just a kid then," says Shaq, "with no money, no clothes, no car, no nothing." Olajuwon obliged, as he almost always does, and Shaq has kept the autograph to this...
...most of Game 1 on Wednesday, Shaq fought Hakeem to a standoff, but with just 0.3 sec. left in the first overtime, Olajuwon tipped in a shot to give himself 31 points and the Rockets a 120-118 win. In Friday's Game 2, the 32-year-old center outplayed his larger, younger counterpart for most of the game, which the Rockets took, 117-106. Olajuwon had 22 points in the first half alone, as Houston built an insurmountable lead, and he finished the night with 34 points, 11 rebounds and four blocks...
...Hakeem Olajuwon pours in 30 as the Rockets knock off the Bullets 109-92. Page...
...ready to celebrate if the New Yorkers managed to prevail. When Cambridge native Patrick Ewing missed those two open-court lay-ups and drew and offensive interference, I clapped. Loudly. When Kenny Smith nailed that clutch three-pointer with about two minutes left, I did a moonwalk. And when Hakeem Olajuwon got a piece of John Starks' final shot of the game, sealing the Rocket victory, I danced and cheered and nearly had my face punched...