"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 Hakeem Olajuwon Trophy Awarded to the Kia NBA Defensive Player of the Year The NBA’s top defender will now receive a trophy named after Hall of Famer and defensive standout Hakeem Olajuwon.

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

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 ...

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.

1995 NBA Finals As a matter of fact, the Rockets have, till date, won the league only twice, with the two titles coming in the 1993 and 94 seasons. Rockets legend Hakeem Olajuwon led a free ...

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.

Related: Hakeem Olajuwon's admission after Game 1 of the 1994 Finals: "They did a good job on me, and I didn't have the energy to fight back" This story was originally reported by Basketball ...