What started out as just a gap between the team and its star player turned into an ugly conflict when Steve Patterson, the ...

Johnson says he embraced the moment with nothing to lose, attacking one of the league’s most dominant defenders.

Few voices carry as much weight when it comes to basketball fundamentals as Houston Rockets legend Hakeem Olajuwon. The former MVP and two-time Defensive Player of the Year Award winner was the leader ...

NBA centers are among the most impressive athletes on the planet. To rank among the best of the best is to truly be on top of ...

NBA Legend Hakeem Olajuwon chats one-on-one with SA Live's Jen Tobias-Struski about his international housing project in ...

Hakeem Olajuwon played in an era where the NBA was plagued by highly competitive and dominant centers. Each game, the Dream was in for an intense physical battle inside the paint, especially when the ...

There are few players, if any, in basketball history who have been more pleasurable to watch than Hakeem Olajuwon. The legendary Rockets center was poetry in motion on the court, all seven feet of him ...

Hakeem Olajuwon had more than just power. He brought a mix of strength, finesse and court sense that changed what people expected from a center. During his peak years with the Houston Rockets in the ...

Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Hakeem "The Dream" Olajuwon is the greatest African player to ever grace an NBA floor. After attending the University of Houston where he led "Phi Slama Jama" to three Final ...

HOUSTON — NBA players are making their final preparations for the 2023-24 season with training camp less than a month away. For Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo, his last off-season training ...

“What ifs” can be fun — What if the Rockets had traded Ralph Sampson to the Trail Blazers for Clyde Drexler and the No. 2 pick in the 1984 draft? — but also exhausting. Imagine having the same debate ...