The memory lingers in varying proportions of blocked shots, ferocious slams on offensive rebounds and dizzying spins known as the "Dream Shake." It was a performance that nobody in attendance could ever forget — 49 points, 25 rebounds and 7 blocks in a Game 6 Western Conference elimination game that the Houston Rockets lost in double overtime at Seattle.
Hakeem Olajuwon — then Akeem and forever "The Dream" — put his stamp on the center position in the NBA that night and it still lives 21 years later, just days after he became one of seven inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass.
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