Just a couple of old pictures of Hakeem and Shaq riding bikes together in happier times. For those of you too young to remember this, Shaq and Hakeem had the same agent at the time and they were working on promoting a boxing style Pay-per-View event to play each other one on one, including full on Taco Bell sponsorship and WWE style fake trash talk. http://uproxx.com/dimemag/2012/07/we-reminisce-shaq-vs-hakeem-1-on-1/2/ A coworker sent me this today, and somehow he had never seen it before. Brought a smile to my face again.
Oh how TV has changed... <iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/K9nqf4B3DSk" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> Guess Taco Bell likes the Rockets (or vice versa).
Spoiler My memory is fuzzy, but I seem to remember Akeem's rookie year, he and Jordan alternating "Rookie of the Month" honors pretty much every month that season.
That 1-on-1 game never happened right? I can't remember if there was an obstacle to it or it was just a commercial campaign bit that was never supposed to come to fruition.
So I made this correlation recently.... James Harden is in the current taco bell commercial. The last time a Houston Rocket was in a taco bell commercial, Houston swept in the Finals! OH YEAH! #BELIEVE
Even in his dreams, Akeem loves to save money... <iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/0fy7IhL89FQ" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
For those old enough to remember was was the Rockets fan community's thought concerning drafting Hakeem over Jordan as popular opinion began to grow that Jordan might be the best ever?