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Hakeem Olajuwon
Lagos, Nigeria
Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon, nicknamed "the Dream," is a Nigerian-American former professional basketball player. From 1984 to 2002, he played center in the National Basketball Associat…
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Hakeem Abdul Olajuwon, nicknamed "the Dream," is a Nigerian-American former professional basketball player. From 1984 to 2002, he played center in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Houston Rockets and, in his last season, the Toronto Raptors. He led the Rockets to back-to-back NBA championships in 1994 and 1995. Olajuwon was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2008 and the FIBA Hall of Fame in 2016. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest centers, as well as one of the greatest basketball players of all time.
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2025
Mount Mutombo
Movie Self
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2023
Stand
Movie Self - Houston Rockets (archive footage)
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2018
Basketball: A Love Story
TV show Self
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2017
Hoops Africa: Ubuntu Matters
Movie Self
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2016
Phi Slama Jama
Movie
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2016
2016 NBA Finals Mini-Movie
Movie Himself (Archive Footage)
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2015
Clutch City
Movie Himself
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2014
Arvydas Sabonis 11
Movie Himself
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2014
The '84 Draft
Movie
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2012
Going Big
Movie Self
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2011
NB80s
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2001
Beyond the Glory
TV show
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1995
Double Clutch: Houston Rockets 1994-95 NBA Champions
Movie Himself
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