It’s amazing what we can achieve in ten years. At 15, Hakeem Olajuwon joined a local Nigerian sports tournament. He had planned to play handball there but ended up playing basketball, and it changed his life. “He couldn’t even dunk at first,” said one of his first coaches in an interview. The article’s headline was “Olajuwon: He’s not the best yet.” They didn’t know how accurate it was. A decade later, he was the undisputed leader of the Houston Rockets in the 1988-1989 season.
