Rockets To Hire Hakeem Olajuwon In Player Development Role

Post #1 » by **RealGM Wiretap** » Mon Jul 15, 2013 2:22 pm

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

RoundMoundOfRebound · Post #2 » by **RoundMoundOfRebound** » Mon Jul 15, 2013 2:31 pm

Solid move by Rockets.

Tim Reynolds · Post #3 » by **Tim Reynolds** » Mon Jul 15, 2013 3:04 pm

Considering he charges $50,000 per week for private lessons, I'm sure Howard and Asik's bank accounts are cheering for this move

Rollie · Post #4 » by **Rollie** » Mon Jul 15, 2013 3:56 pm

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. :lol:

...c.a.p... · Post #5 » by **...c.a.p...** » Mon Jul 15, 2013 5:26 pm

I think what they meant to say was "we have hired Hakeem Olajuwon in a Offensive Dwight Development Role".

Dolphin Lips · Post #6 » by **Dolphin Lips** » Mon Jul 15, 2013 5:39 pm

Can he still train Amar'e and Melo? -- BTW he charges $100k per week not 50k

hodgy#11 · Post #7 » by **hodgy#11** » Mon Jul 15, 2013 8:59 pm

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

Nanogeek · Post #8 » by **Nanogeek** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 1:27 am

This guy could probably suit up and drop 15/8/2 even now.

DontHateMiami · Post #9 » by **DontHateMiami** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 2:40 am

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.

Tim Reynolds · Post #10 » by **Tim Reynolds** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 3:09 am

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.html

http://www.nypost.com/p/sports/knicks/s ... OrkaDZOzTN

http://sulia.com/channel/new-york-knick ... ce=twitter

http://www.beyondthebuzzer.com/2013/07/ ... is-summer/

Amar'e paid $100k for two weeks, not one, aka $50k/week.