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...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...
...says O'Neal. "Shaquille is in a league by himself," says Olajuwon. As far as endorsements are concerned, O'Neal is in a league with only Michael Jordan. Olajuwon, on the other hand, is still waiting to be discovered. Shaq does Pepsi; Hakeem does Oshman's Sporting Goods in Houston...
Since their first brief meeting six years ago, the two centers have both grown-the 7-ft. 1-in., 305-lb. O'Neal physically, and Olajuwon spiritually. Hakeem, who went directly from Lagos, Nigeria, to the University of Houston in 1983, has always had a sweet, kind nature, but until a few years ago, he often vexed referees, teammates and management while living the N.B.A. life to the fullest. But in 1992 he made his first hajj to Mecca, renewed his faith in Islam and added the H to his first name. Since then he has carried a prayer...
Although he has been listed as 7 ft. ever since his days at the University of Houston, Olajuwon is really no taller than 6 ft. 10 in. -- an inch below the 16-year-old Shaq; 2 in. below the New York Knicks' Patrick Ewing, whom he beat in last year's N.B.A. Finals; and 3 in. below the San Antonio Spurs' David Robinson, the 1994-95 N.B.A. mvp, whom he beat like a drum in this year's Western Conference finals...
Olajuwon was so devastating in the series with the Spurs, averaging 35.3 points, 12 rebounds and four blocked shots, that Houston coach Rudy Tomjanovich proclaimed it a "legendary performance that people will be talking about for a long, long time." Even the normally modest Olajuwon admitted, "I don't think I realized [how well I played] until I saw the film, and then I said, 'Who's that...