Can You Tell The Playoffs Are Coming?

We're going retro, almost twenty-six full hours back, to when you could comment on TFR without inciting a spam riot. If you keep digging back, you'll find Hakeem was once Akeem and the world was still right.

Akeem The Dream slams one home in his debut home game with the Houston Rockets.

--Courtesy of NBA.com
In a draft that featured Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley and John Stockton, the Rockets took just 39 seconds of their allotted five minutes to write down Hakeem Olajuwon's name on a sheet of paper and hand it to NBA Commissioner David Stern. In the 16 seasons that followed, Olajuwon led the Rockets to two NBA championships and has become one of the greatest players ever to play in the NBA. In 1994, he became the only player ever to win Defensive Player of the Year, NBA MVP and NBA Finals MVP in the same season. He entered the 1999-2000 season as the Rockets' all-time leader in 21 regular-season and playoff statistical categories.