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The best responses to viral ‘Hakeem Olajuwon challenge’ by Rockets

Kevin Porter Jr. and Robert Horry are among those wanting to accept the viral Hakeem Olajuwon challenge from the Rockets.

Hall of Fame center Hakeem Olajuwon is one of the most decorated players in basketball history, with 12 All-Star berths, an MVP award, and two Defensive Player of the Year awards among his many accolades. To this day, he’s the NBA’s all-time leader in blocked shots.

Most importantly, “The Dream” was also a two-time champion with the Houston Rockets, earning NBA Finals MVP in 1994 and 1995.

With that dominance in mind, the Rockets’ social media team posed this fascinating hypothetical scenario to their followers:

Could you score in the paint against Olajuwon (in his prime) in 10 tries? Do it, and you earn $10 million. Fail, and you lose your phone for life. Would you take the challenge?

With this being the slowest period of the NBA’s 2021 offseason, the challenge meme quickly went viral across social media.

The vast majority of fans declined, given the extraordinarily long odds that most normal people would face in creating enough separation versus an athletic 6-foot-10 beast to even get a shot near the rim.

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But those with actual NBA experience and bodies had a different assessment of the odds. Here’s what current Rockets guard Kevin Porter Jr. and former Houston forward Robert Horry had to say:

Porter Jr. (Instagram): Ez 💰

Horry (Instagram): Yes I will take that challenge, if I’m in my prime, too

Others among fans and media knew their limitations, but at least they had funny jokes about it.

Adi Joseph (CBS Sports): Since the Rockets were only paying “prime Dream” $3.2 million per year, I’d offer to let him split the money.

Ahmir Khalib Thompson (musician): May I have a taser in my possession?

Bryan Horowitz (media): Yes, because it would be a great way to break my phone addiction.

David Hinojosa (San Antonio Express-News): Sure. I would offer him half to tank.

Joseph Flynn (SB Nation): Most of the bums on here — myself included — couldn’t score on prime Chris Dudley

Scroll through the comments (and quote tweets on Twitter) from the team’s post on each social media account for more laughs.

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Lakers news: Robert Horry says Clippers don’t belong in Staples Center

Los Angeles Lakers legends Robert Horry and Shaquille O’Neal say they won’t root for the L.A. Clippers in the playoffs.

The rivalry between the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers continues to run deep for players on both sides.

Even though the Lakers were eliminated from the playoffs in the first round, the Clippers advanced to the second round after defeating the Dallas Mavericks in a back-and-forth seven-game series,

It’s left many in the NBA spectrum wondering if Lakers’ fans would support the Clippers to win it all since they both represent the same city.

However, Lakers’ legends Shaquille O’Neal and Robert Horry took no time to shut down any hopes of wanting the Clippers to win.

On an episode of The Big Podcast with Shaq, Horry and O’Neal were asked about rooting for the Clippers, and both responded with emphatic noes.

“H-ll no,” Horry said.

“H-ll no dot com,” O’Neal said.

“The only reason I would root for the Clippers is because of Ty Lue. You know, Ty Lue won a championship with us in L.A. but that’s the only reason. But you can not have the Clippers try to put up a damn banner in Staples Center. They don’t belong in Staples. They can get up out of here with a hurry.” – Horry.

The Clippers haven’t won a championship since it was founded in 1970, then known as the Buffalo Braves.

The Clippers moved to L.A. in 1984 and has seen more success in recent years when Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan formed “Lob City”, but that team never won a ring.

With Kawhi Leonard and Paul George joining the Clippers in recent years, the rivalry with the Lakers reignited since LeBron James and Anthony Davis were on the opposite side.

As of now, the Clippers trail the Utah Jazz in the second round, 2-0.

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Legendary coach calls for Robert Horry to be inducted into Hall of Fame

During the 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony, legendary NBA coach Rudy Tomjanovich called for Robert Horry to be inducted.

Former NBA head coach Rudy Tomjanovich was enshrined into the Basketball Hall of Fame yesterday, and in his speech, he called for Robert Horry to be inducted into the hall.

Horry, who attended the University of Alabama from 1988-1992, is known for his seven NBA Championship rings, which he earned over the course of his 16-year career with the Houston Rockets, Phoenix Suns, Los Angeles Lakers and the San Antonio Spurs.

Tomjanovich coached Horry on the Rockets, and offered nothing but high praise for the forward.

“He’s got seven rings to prove it, this is where he belongs,” said Tomjanovich. His shout out to Horry was met with applause from the audience.

Legendary coach calls for Robert Horry to be inducted into Hall of Fame

During the 2020 Basketball Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony, legendary NBA coach Rudy Tomjanovich called for Robert Horry to be inducted.

Former NBA head coach Rudy Tomjanovich was enshrined into the Basketball Hall of Fame yesterday, and in his speech, he called for Robert Horry to be inducted into the hall.

Horry, who attended the University of Alabama from 1988-1992, is known for his seven NBA Championship rings, which he earned over the course of his 16-year career with the Houston Rockets, Phoenix Suns, Los Angeles Lakers and the San Antonio Spurs.

Tomjanovich coached Horry on the Rockets, and offered nothing but high praise for the forward.

“He’s got seven rings to prove it, this is where he belongs,” said Tomjanovich. His shout out to Horry was met with applause from the audience.

Robert Horry welcomed Tom Brady to the ‘7 Chip Club’ with an excellent tweet

The two GOATs.

Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady became the first NFL player to win seven Super Bowl titles with Sunday’s 31-9 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in Super Bowl LV.

It was a win that essentially cemented Brady’s spot as the NFL’s GOAT. But it also brought Brady into a very exclusive club with … well … Robert Horry.

No basketball player since the NBA-ABA merger has won more championships than Horry’s seven. The former NBA player won three titles with the Lakers, two with the Spurs and two with the Rockets.

And with Brady’s seventh championship, Horry had a tweet ready to go to welcome the future Hall of Fame quarterback to the “7 Chip Club.”

Sure, Brady may have played a larger role in those seven titles than Horry did in his. But a ring is a ring, and the numbers don’t lie.

Horry never lost to Eli Manning. There’s no disputing that.

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Super Bowl tributes and celebrations of Tom Brady roll on and on

The greats of sports reached out on social media to celebrate Tom Brady’s seventh Super Bowl victory.

Tom Brady has seven Super Bowl championships in 10 shots at the ring.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ quarterback is being feted by one and all after winning Super Bowl LV over the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday at Raymond James Stadium.

The 43-year-old was 21-of-29 for 201 yards and a trio of TDs in the 31-9 victory.

The tributes and celebration of the G.O.A.T. poured in on social media and continue.

Tom Brady, one of a kind. Pretty damn good for a guy who went 199th in the NFL Draft.

Robert Horry picks ’95 Rockets, ’01 Lakers as his favorite NBA titles

“I think the ’95 championship… what we did with the Houston Rockets was something special,” Horry told Dan Patrick in a new interview.

With seven NBA championships over his 16-year career, veteran forward Robert Horry has the most rings of any modern player.

Of those seven titles for “Big Shot Rob,” two came with the Houston Rockets (1994, 1995); three with the Los Angeles Lakers (2000, 2001, 2002); and two with the San Antonio Spurs (2005, 2007).

In a new appearance on The Dan Patrick Show, Horry said he keeps his rings in a safe deposit box back in Houston — his original NBA home.

From there, Patrick asked if he had a favorite one. Horry replied:

Actually, I have two. I just don’t have one. I think the ’95 championship… what we did with the Houston Rockets was something special. Not having home-court advantage was key to winning that championship, because it made us have that heart of a champion, as the defending champion.

The second one is the 2001 Lakers, when we were 16-1. We were so mad we lost game one of the Finals to the Sixers. We wanted to go perfect, and do something that probably would never be done [again] in NBA history.

While they were defending champions, the 1994-95 Rockets were the No. 6 seed in the Western Conference playoffs — which remains the lowest in NBA history to win it all. HoopsHype has more on that historic journey by the sixth-seeded Rockets to a second consecutive NBA crown.

“According to research in which we looked at every team’s path to their eventual championship wins, the 1994-95 Rockets had the toughest road ever to winning a title,” they write. “The worst team they beat had a 57-25 record, and that was their Finals opponent, the Orlando Magic, who boasted a lineup featuring Shaquille O’Neal and Penny Hardaway, amongst many valuable role players.” The HoopsHype story adds:

On top of that, the Rockets won four series without having home-court advantage, an almost impossible feat to even fathom, let alone pull off. Houston’s road was made that tough due to the fact that they went 47-35 that regular season, a disappointing campaign prior to the playoffs. The Rockets beat two teams in the Utah Jazz (60-22) and the San Antonio Spurs (62-20) that won at least 60 games, and a third, the Phoenix Suns (59-23) that came within one win of reaching that benchmark.

HoopsHype concludes:

A road that featured the aforementioned Shaq-and-Penny duo, along with Charles Barkley and Kevin Johnson, that year’s regular-season MVP in David Robinson, who Olajuwon made look very foolish during their matchup, and John Stockton and Karl Malone, there’s no questioning just how tough the Rockets had it during their second title run, and how well-earned their championship was.

In all, the 1995 run can be summed up perfectly by the postgame quote that night from legendary head coach Rudy Tomjanovich.

“Don’t ever underestimate the heart of a champion!”

Even in the context of Horry’s epic career with seven championship teams, that improbable run still seems to resonate the most.

Horry averaged 13.1 points (40.0% on 3-pointers), 7.0 rebounds, and 3.5 rebounds in 38.2 minutes per game during the 1995 playoffs. The versatile 6-foot-10 forward was also one of Hosuton’s top defenders.

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Metta World Peace, Robert Horry, don’t believe LeBron’s era is ‘soft’

Robert Horry believes LeBron James should also be the Finals MVP because of his consistency in the series for the Lakers.

There seems to be yet another new narrative forming to discredit the excellence of LeBron James in advance of winning his 4th championship. ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith got the ball rolling earlier this week when he said that LeBron James will never surpass Michael Jordan in his view because James played in what he called “the softest era” in NBA history. Players of today would rightfully challenge that assertion, but some other NBA legends are here to say that isn’t true either.

Lakers legend Metta World Peace went on twitter on Friday morning to say that LeBron’s era is not the softest, reminding many that his era was also LeBron’s era. I don’t think anybody would call World Peace/Ron Artest soft.

Also on Friday, seven-time NBA champion and Spectrum SportsNet L.A. commentator Robert Horry told Dan Patrick that he doesn’t understand why LeBron’s accomplishments are constantly discredited. Horry also told Patrick he belives the 2020 Finals MVP will go to LeBron.

“I have to go with LeBron because of the bad game that AD had. To be the MVP of the Finals, you can’t have a bad game. Plus LeBron got snubbed on the season MVP in my opinion and there’s no way he won’t lose this one. He’s probably going to have a phenomenal game tonight and he’s going to be MVP.”

Robert Horry shares raw, emotional conversation he had with his son about Jacob Blake

“I don’t think people understand, especially white people, how hard it is for Black people to watch that.”

In the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the Milwaukee Bucks became the first team to boycott a game in protest of police brutality and racial injustice on Wednesday, sparking a greater movement across the sports world. Several NBA, WNBA, MLB and MLS teams also boycotted in response, and athletes are publicly calling for change as their seasons have become a secondary concern.

NBA legend and analyst Robert Horry shared his reaction to Blake’s shooting on Spectrum SportsNet, and opened up on the difficult conversations he’s been forced to have with his children as a Black father.

“I was sitting there and I started crying. And my wife walks in and she’s like ‘are you crying because you’re turning 50 today?’ And I started laughing, like, no. I said ‘did you see the video of this guy getting shot?’

And at first, I saw it and I’m looking at it, I thought ‘well maybe they’re going to tase him, right?’ Because that’s what they do with white people. They tase them. And so I didn’t have the volume up, and [Horry’s son] Christian walks in the room and says ‘no, dad, they shot him.’ I play it again, I’m like ‘wow.’ They shoot this guy seven times in the back.

And then I have this conversation with Christian, and he was like ‘that’s wrong, that’s wrong.’ I said ‘yo, that’s beyond wrong. It’s just flat-out evil.’ And I’m telling him…. and it’s hard to tell your 14-year-old son that I worry about him when he walks out that door. I have a 21-year-old son, I worry about him. Because Black men are an endangered species pretty much. These cops are just killing because they feel like if they don’t have their body cams on, they have a right.’

And I tell my kids all the time, I say ‘dude, I don’t care what’s going on, because at the end of the day, I want you coming home to me. If you have to lay down on the ground and they can kick you, beat you – at least you’re going to go to the hospital, you’re going to come home to me. Whatever they say to you, don’t take it upon yourself to let that rage you have against that cop come out. Because he has the gun. He can end you. And I don’t want him to end you, because if he ends you, that means I’m going to end him.’ And I know that’s wrong for me to say, but I’m so much ‘A Time To Kill’ guy like Samuel L. Jackson, you know, and [feeling like] this is going to happen with me. And I said I don’t want that to happen. I already lost one child. I don’t need to lose another.

And I don’t think people understand, especially white people, how hard it is for Black people to watch that.”

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Shake Milton uses Oprah Winfrey, Robert Horry to react to game winner

Philadelphia 76ers guard Shake Milton uses Oprah Winfrey and Robert Horry to react to Monday’s game-winning shot.

Philadelphia 76ers guard Shake Milton had a very rough start to the Orlando resumption. He went scoreless and then had three turnovers and a dust up on the sideline with Joel Embiid in a loss to the Indiana Pacers.

He could not allow that to happen again.

Milton scored 16 points and he drilled a 3-pointer with 7.2 seconds left to lift the Sixers to a 132-130 win over the San Antonio Spurs. Philadelphia was on the verge of collapsing after blowing another double-digit lead and they gave up 43 points in the fourth quarter.

However, the second-year guard stepped up and lifted Philadelphia to a much-needed victory. He then took to social media to give the perfect reactions including using famed talk show host Oprah Winfrey and her shoulder shrug.

He then followed that up by going to Instagram and posting a picture of Robert Horry famously known as “Big Shot Bob” for his tendency of knocking down clutch shots.

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