David Robinson said this about Hakeem:
During the season, he would go fasting in the month of Ramadan and then he would always come back and beat us all up after his fasting time. So we always dreaded the fasting month but you could always respect him because of his committment to his faith and it just seemed to be his strength.
You can watch this 4 min clip of Hakeem’s career here (It will load Windows Media Player).
Shout out to Adam S. for emailing me this!
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One Response for "David Robinson dreaded playing Hakeem “the Dream” in Ramadan"
Hakeem is The Man, Masha’Allah. Check out this article about the Rockets honoring Hakeem’s beliefs when putting up an Olajuwon monument: http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3246789
Also, you misspelled ‘dreaded’ in the title.
Jazaks to the Max for sharing.