What side would you have been on when Management accused Hakeem of Faking Injury

do you mean to say that THINGS CHANGE and people re-evaulate things and change their minds ??? that's unpossible !!!

 

And players carried six shooters in the paint!!!!

Also it was common practice to shank the closest player to you.

Great players like Vernon Maxwell were so tough they charged much smaller fans to punch them in the face and then later on were so cool they quit on their team and teammates during a playoff push. We rag on more current Rocket players because thats cool to do. Label them quitters and moaners like TMac, but somehow forget how your idol QUIT on his team. Much more so than TMac ever did. Complain about shot selection and poor shooting percentages, but some how neglect what an aweful chucker VM was.

Because being a baby during the Rockets late 80s and early 90s years you could remember that any given Rockets player could kick He-Man's, Optimus Prime's AND VOLTRONS asses.

Give it a rest with your schtick already. Your old school really isn't old school. Players in the late 80s and early 90s were all but as much prima donna's as they are now.

Oh and PS....The Dream was faking injury.

DoD

I remember that quote also. It made me so histerical at the time.

http://books.google.com/books?id=0M...akeem suspended over hamstring injury&f=false

 

is it that tough to remember for people that were at least my age at the time? I remember it happening, and I remember being on management's side. If I was already there, I think the internet would have only made skepticism and questioning even worse. Sad to say, but the internet might have helped the trade to Miami along.. the fans may have helped push Dream out

 

those were different days my friend. I'm glad we experienced the lows to get the highs.

 

dude put the crack pipe down. mad max was 10 times the player and 100 times the MAN than lazy mcshady could ever hope to be.

too bad about max going psycho, but up util that point, he was full throttle for this team no matter the situation or the odds. when the rockets had their backs against the wall, maxwell was at his best. he didn't slink away and let his team get punked by 40 points.

max stuck up for his teammates, never backed down from a challenge, and was CLUTCH in the playoffs and the FINALS. something that mcshady knows nothing about. this place got its name BECAUSE of maxwell's heroics.

t-whack isn't even fit to sniff maxwells jockstrap. get that nonsense out of here.

 

dude only Rockets fans care about facts like that!

 

Thanks for this thread. I never really knew what happened, just that Olajuwon wanted to be traded because of management problems. I probably would've sided with management and we can never be sure but it looks like Olajuwon faked the injury.

That guy Patterson really made the championship team so I wonder why Alexander let him go. CD was a terrible GM compared to that guy. You think Olajuwon's problem with him has something to do with it ?

 

The strange thing about Steve Patterson is that he was so under the radar in Houston. When he left the Rockets he worked in the same building as me downtown. He was working for NFL Houston, which was the group McNair made to bring the NFL back to Houston.

I would go to lunch with my coworkers in the tunnel and we'd see Steve Patterson roaming around and I would tell them, "It's Steve Patterson!"
They had no clue who he was.


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HOUSTON _ The senior vice president of the Houston Texans is set to become the president of the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers on Wednesday, a Houston television station reported Tuesday.

KRIV-TV reported that Steve Patterson, who most recently worked for the Texans but spent nine years with the Houston Rockets as the team's general manager and general counsel and built most of the pieces of the franchise's NBA titles in 1994 and 1995, was on his way to Portland on Tuesday for Wednesday's announcement.

Patterson could not be reached for comment Tuesday.

"I can't confirm that right now," Texans spokesman Tony Wyllie told The Associated Press Tuesday. "We will have a statement at the appropriate time."

Reached at his Houston home by The Oregonian newspaper of Portland, Ore., Patterson would say only: "Where they are right now, if anyone is going to comment, it ought to be the Blazers."

The newspaper also reached a spokesman for the Texans, who said: "To be honest, we don't really have any comment until everything is official. Our comment is we're not going to comment until an announcement is made."

Patterson, a 1984 graduate of the University of Texas Law School, became one of Houston's most successful professional sports executives, moving from the NBA Rockets to the International Hockey League's Aeros to the NFL's Texans.

During his tenure as the Rockets' general manager from 1989-93, Patterson drafted Alabama's Robert Horry, signed free agent Matt Bullard, and negotiated trades for Kenny Smith, Vernon Maxwell, Otis Thorpe and Carl Herrera. All were key parts of the Rockets' 1994 NBA championship team.

 

You don't believe he was? It isn't a matter of belief. Hakeem was a totally different guy back then. While appreciating the fact he was a warrior who left it all out on the court, I didn't like him very much at the time. Plus, it seemed every season he wanted to re-negotiate his contract and I got sick and tired of it. This was the first time the Rockets said no. It was clear to me that faking the injury was his way of escalating the situation. An MRI found nothing wrong.

As I recall, he said something like, "OK, you've done what you had to do, now I will." DD, it blows my mind that I agree with you and tinman on a topic like this.

 

I was on the management side back then. Looking back, I still think he was wrong in faking injury in order to get a contract. I have a feeling that he would think the same now.

 

well the good thing about this movie is that there was a happy ending and both sides got what they wanted.

but for the what if the 90s Rockets had a clutchfans bbs with this many users, every day and every game would have taxed the servers.

 

I recall I and a lot of my friends being petrified that it was JR Richard all over again, so we sided with Hakeem.

In hindsight, I think he was faking. But then again, even if I sided with management, it's not like I wanted him traded, any more than I did in 2001, when he was faking again.

 

When I said Hakeem was a different guy, I didn't mean he no longer cared about money after he changed. His last 2 seasons in Houston the team paid him a bunch of money for very little. Yet he still blasted the Rockets before going to Toronto because they wouldn't meet his price. After what happened in Toronto, they clearly made the right decision.

 

I remember feeling, at the time, like he was embellishing a bit because of his unhappiness with management, and that you knew part of his displeasure was probably justified, if not the extremity of his actions regarding it. It was hard to be mad at him for fans, but the consensus among those I knew was that he wasn't as hurt as he led everyone to believe at the time. And yes, I agree that Akeem was a bit different back then, scrappier. Luckily, they made amends and after that things really began to take off. It was quickly forgotten about.

 

HAKEEM DUH!!

 

Well, that's the dilemma I've always had. This wasn't the "old" Hakeem (aka, "Akeem"). This was supposedly after he had rediscovered his religion and after he had changed his name. I mean it was only a season or two later that he won the ring. For me to believe he faked an injury was tough.

 

Who did you side with for Nolan Ryan vs the Astros?

 

Gotcha. My timeline on his change is probably messed up.