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He grew up in Nigeria and didn't even pick up a basketball until he was seventeen. But just two years later Hakeem Olajuwon powered his American college team, the University of Houston, to the NCAA Final Four. And that was only the beginning. In Living the Dream, the center of the back-to-back NBA champion Houston Rockets shares one of the most remarkable basketball stories of our time. Hakeem tells exactly how it felt coming to America, leaving his family and friends. He puts you on campus, inside the locker room, and at the Final Four with the University of Houston's famous basketball fraternity, "Phi Slama Jama." Drafted into the NBA, he tells how, with one phone call, he, Michael Jordan, and Clyde Drexler might have all been Houston Rockets teammates. Hakeem gives vivid on-the-court profiles of his teammates, coaches, and competitors over the course of his long career with the Rockets, including Shaquille O'Neal, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Moses Malone, Larry Bird, Ralph Sampson, Pat Riley, and Patrick Ewing. He gives remarkable insights into the teamwork, cooperation, and attitude it takes to win a championship or succeed in any business. Hakeem also reveals how a championship team

Who reads Living the Dream : My Life and Basketball?

Author

Hakeem Olajuwon, with Peter Knobler

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316094276

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sports, Anthropology, Fiction

Rating

3.86 / 5 (81 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14