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Excerpted from the book Dream: The Life and Legacy of Hakeem Olajuwon by Mirin Fader. Copyright © 2024 by Mirin Fader. Reprinted by permission of Hachette Books an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc., New York, NY. All rights reserved. You can buy the book HERE.
Nearly every day in the summer of 1981, after his first partial year at Houston, Olajuwon played at Fonde Recreation Center, the spot to play if you were a talented ballplayer in Houston. There were two no-frills courts separated by a blue plastic screen. There was often no air-conditioning. Players frequently played shirts versus skins. Everyone was out for blood. “If you wanted to find out what game you had, you’d come to Fonde,” says James Robinson, Fonde’s current recreation assistant. “If you ain’t got it, you gotta get out. Don’t come back.”
For months, Olajuwon had heard stories of the legendary court and
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