"All the critics can shut up" - Hakeem Olajuwon defended LeBron James from his haters after he won his first NBA Championship ...

Olajuwon would go on to win his second-straight NBA title and Finals MVP. He eventually got his trophy – even if that trophy wasn’t a regular season MVP award.

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The names you'll most often hear in the top 10 players of all time are almost always Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Kobe ...

With award frontrunner Victor Wembanyama done for the season, the race for the Hakeem Olajuwon Trophy is fluid. Steve Aschburner Atlanta’s Dyson Daniels leads the NBA in both steals and ...

The NBA announced in December 2022 that the Defensive Player of the Year award has been renamed “The Hakeem Olajuwon Trophy” in honor of the Hall of Famer and former Rockets star. Read more here.

Olajuwon was a back-to-back winner of the Defensive Player of the Year award in 1992-93 and 1993-94 and was named All-Defensive First Team five times and Second Team four times. He is the NBA’s ...

Their leader, regular-season MVP David Robinson received his trophy (won by Olajuwon the year before) in front of Hakeem prior to Game 2 of the series. Big Mistake.