{"id":812137,"date":"2026-07-20T11:47:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/812137\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T11:47:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T11:47:09","slug":"youtube-gold-hakeem-olajuwons-brilliant-dream-shake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/812137\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Gold: Hakeem Olajuwon\u2019s Brilliant Dream Shake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _174s0un6 _174s0un5 _1mt21p01\">On Sunday, we looked at the classic 1984 matchup between Houston\u2019s Hakeem Olajuwon and Georgetown\u2019s Patrick Ewing. Both went on to brilliant NBA careers and are on a short list of the best NBA big men of all time: Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Walton, Shaquille O\u2019Neal, David Robinson &#8211; Ewing and Olajuwon are both in rarified air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">However, Olajuwon in one respect stands alone: no center, and indeed very few players at all, had the combination of agility and quickness that he had.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Watch this compilation of his signature move, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9J-WJ5739Tg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Dream Shake.<\/a> Keep in mind that Olajuwon is 7-0 and his playing weight was 255. The only big man who ever approached this level of agility was a young O\u2019Neal, and he packed on so much weight in the NBA that he lost that aspect of his game. For his third championship with the Lakers, though he was listed at 325, O\u2019Neal later said that he played at a staggering 415 lbs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Olajuwon was one of a kind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Sunday, we looked at the classic 1984 matchup between Houston\u2019s Hakeem Olajuwon and Georgetown\u2019s Patrick Ewing. Both&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":812138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,7432,85],"class_list":["post-812137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-main","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=812137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/812138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}