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Rockets To Hire Hakeem Olajuwon In Player Development Role
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 2:22 pm
by RealGM Wiretap
Hakeem Olajuwon will join the Houston Rockets as an official employee.
Olajuwon has expensively tutored many of the NBA's players during the offseason in Houston and will continue that work with the Rockets.
“We are going to bring him in as full-time as is possible,” Rockets general manager Daryl Morey said Sunday. “It’s not done, but we have mutual interest to get it done, and we’ve had some early discussions.
“We want him to work with Dwight (Howard) and Omer (Asik), and he wants to do that.”
Via Jonathan Feigen/Houston Chronicle
Re: Rockets To Hire Hakeem Olajuwon In Player Development Ro
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 2:31 pm
by RoundMoundOfRebound
Solid move by Rockets.
Re: Rockets To Hire Hakeem Olajuwon In Player Development Ro
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 3:04 pm
by Tim Reynolds
Considering he charges $50,000 per week for private lessons, I'm sure Howard and Asik's bank accounts are cheering for this move
Re: Rockets To Hire Hakeem Olajuwon In Player Development Ro
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 3:56 pm
by Rollie
Tim Reynolds wrote:Considering he charges $50,000 per week for private lessons, I'm sure Howard and Asik's bank accounts are cheering for this move
Judging by how well he looked in the youtube vids, he could come off the bench and take minutes from them.
Re: Rockets To Hire Hakeem Olajuwon In Player Development Ro
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 5:26 pm
by ...c.a.p...
I think what they meant to say was "we have hired Hakeem Olajuwon in a Offensive Dwight Development Role".
Re: Rockets To Hire Hakeem Olajuwon In Player Development Ro
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 5:39 pm
by Dolphin Lips
Can he still train Amar'e and Melo? -- BTW he charges $100k per week not 50k
Re: Rockets To Hire Hakeem Olajuwon In Player Development Ro
Posted: Mon Jul 15, 2013 8:59 pm
by hodgy#11
wel all things considered, Hakeem doesn't do the training year round I assume. Just in the offseason.
Even if he trained a player a week for the entire year, thats $5.2 million.
A lot of money, but not ridiculous
Re: Rockets To Hire Hakeem Olajuwon In Player Development Ro
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 1:27 am
by Nanogeek
This guy could probably suit up and drop 15/8/2 even now.
Re: Rockets To Hire Hakeem Olajuwon In Player Development Ro
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 2:40 am
by DontHateMiami
This is part of Dwights deal, he didn't want to have to keep paying to make himself better, wanted it given to him as usual.
Re: Rockets To Hire Hakeem Olajuwon In Player Development Ro
Posted: Tue Jul 16, 2013 3:09 am
by Tim Reynolds
Dolphin Lips wrote:Can he still train Amar'e and Melo? -- BTW he charges $100k per week not 50k
Where did you read that? Because the multiple sources I've read say otherwise
http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nba-ball- ... --nba.htmlhttp://www.nypost.com/p/sports/knicks/s ... OrkaDZOzTNhttp://sulia.com/channel/new-york-knick ... ce=twitterhttp://www.beyondthebuzzer.com/2013/07/ ... is-summer/Amar'e paid $100k for two weeks, not one, aka $50k/week.