English name: hakeem olajuwon.
Birth: 1963 65438+ 10/0/.
Height: 2. 14m
Function: centered
Main honors:
① 1989, 1990, two NBA rebounding champions;
② 1994 and 1995 won two NBA championships;
③ 1 year of winning MVP; Two finals MVP；;
④ 12 times was selected as an all-star team.
When "Karim-Abdel-Gabbar" Abdel-Gabbar retired from basketball in 1989, the NBA became the era when guards ruled the world. The Detroit Pistons, with guards Du Masi and Thomas as the main force, and the Chicago Bulls, with Jordan as the core, won two and three championships respectively during the five years from 1989 to 1993. Until 1994 and 1995, the NBA championship was won by a team with a center as the main force. This team is the Houston Rockets. The main center of this team is Heiken Olajuwon.
Olajuwon 1963 was born in Lagos, Nigeria. Like all African children, Olajuwon likes playing football since childhood and was once selected as the goalkeeper of the Nigerian youth football team. Later, because he was more than 2 meters tall, he entered the normal school "Muslim Normal School" and changed to handball. Until 1978, an accidental opportunity changed Olajuwon's life.
1978 Olajuwon's school participated in the National Teachers' Sports Festival in Nigeria, when Anjin Olima Ronnie, a member of the school basketball team, was Olajuwon's friend. He told the coach that the school handball team has a player who is more than 2 meters tall and can borrow him. So Olajuwon was chosen to participate in the first formal basketball league in his life. Two years later, Olajuwon, aged 17, was selected for the national team to represent Nigeria in the all-Africa Games basketball match. In one game, Olajuwon scored 60 points 15 rebounds. His excellent physical fitness and good basketball skills were discovered by American scout Pound. 1980 was recommended to Lewis, the famous coach of the University of Houston. Olajuwon, 17 years old, came to America alone and began to weave his long basketball dream.
Because of the good sports foundation laid by football and handball, under the strict training of coach Lewis, Olajuwon's basketball skills have made rapid progress, especially his footwork is flexible and agile, and his fake movements are realistic and changeable. So he soon got an elegant nickname "Big Dream". After he joined the university, the university entered the top four of NCAA for four consecutive years, including two finals. But the champion passed by this talented African basketball genius.
1984, Euler Wang Ju ranked first in the National College League with an average of 13.4 rebounds, a shooting percentage of 67.5% and 5.6 blocked shots. In the same year, he was elected the best team of college students in the United States. 1In the summer of 984, he was selected as the "rookie champion" by the Houston Rockets. After him, Michael Jordan and charles barkley joined the NBA team in the third and fifth place respectively.
From 1984 to 1996- 1997, Olajuwon scored more than 20 points in each of the 13 seasons in which he played, and averaged more than 100 rebounds per game, of which1 From 65438 to 0986, Olajuwon and another center, sampson, formed the rocket's famous double center, known as the "Twin Towers" tactic, and the rocket rushed into the finals in one fell swoop. In the end, I was just inexperienced and lost to Byrd's Boston Celtics with a total score of 2-4.
At this time, Olajuwon was young and energetic, often deliberately hurting people on the court and fighting everywhere. At home, his fiancee left him with their 6-year-old daughter because she couldn't stand his bad temper. Olajuwon at this time is a brave man who is easily out of control and has a very bad temper. He is always full of momentum in the game, but seldom takes his teammates seriously. Until one time, Olajuwon didn't play for 25 games because of a serious eye injury. Without the main center, the Rockets are playing better and better. Sitting on the sidelines, Olajuwon also realized the importance of the group. After the injury, his game style and temper have changed a lot.
On March 9th, 199 1, after beating Golden State Warriors, Olajuwon decided to add an "h" before his name Akon to show his loyalty to God. Because before that, Olajuwon made a pilgrimage to Mecca, an Islamic holy place. After he came back, he felt that he had heard the call of God and had a new understanding of himself during his recovery. From then on, he became a different person and restrained his fists and temper. According to Islam, pray five times a day, even during the finals of 1994 and 1995, which won the championship twice. The Rockets also set up a prayer room specially for him. During the Islamic Ramadan every year, he strictly followed the teachings, did not eat during the day, and only began to eat after sunset. Therefore, he suffered from anemia in 1995 and was admitted to hospital for paroxysmal arrhythmia three times in 1997. However, these diseases were quickly overcome by him, and he continued to play a mainstay role in the competition.
In the finals of 1994, Olajuwon led the Rockets and the East Champion new york Knicks in a fierce battle for seven rounds, and finally defeated the Knicks with Patrick Youwei as the main center 4-3. Won the first championship in history for the rockets. Especially three seconds before the end of the last game, Olajuwon ran outside the three-point line, covering up the three points thrown by Knicks marksman starks, becoming the first hero of the Rockets' first championship. This season, Yula Wang Ju won three awards for her outstanding performance, namely "NBA Most Valuable Player Award", "NBA Best Defender" and "NBA Finals Most Valuable Player". This is the first time in NBA history.
1995, due to injury, Olajuwon's rocket entered the quarter-finals in the 1994- 1995 season with the sixth place in the west. As a result, I passed all the way and finally defeated the young magic team with a score of 4-0. The last goal scored in that finals was thrown by Olajuwon, and it was a three-pointer. This goal brought a satisfactory end to Olajuwon's sports peak. This year, he was named the most valuable player in the NBA Finals for the second time.
1996, Olajuwon, who has been naturalized in the United States, was selected into the American Men's Basketball Dream Team 3, participated in the Atlanta Olympic Games and won his first Olympic gold medal. In addition, Olajuwon was selected as the Western All-Star Team with a ratio of 1985 to 1997. Achievements and hard work, his integrity and tenacity have become an important asset of world basketball.