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Word: hemisfair (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BASKETBALL: THE DREAM IS AGAIN SWEET FOR THE ROCKETS | 6/19/1995 | See Source »

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