Olajuwon most underrated player of all time?

I say upvote, the dream was the best!

Unique skill set that hasn't been matched in the 20 years since his prime.

let's also remember, he would play a month(?) every seeason, w/o eating, and fasting for ramadan. Yet still put up solid numbers every night during it.

Hakeem had a great finish to his career but he spent alot of years underachieving and being a knucklehead prior to the Rockets runs in 94 and 95.

I think he's up there on the underrated all time greats.

Although it shouldn't, I have always felt that he was forever unfairly smeared or had a taint on his resume for losing back-to-back NCAA titles - especially to NC State (Houston was supposed to be unbeatable. They were 31-2 heading into the title game.)

Although Olajuwon is the last player from a losing side to win the 1983 NCAA Tournament Player of the Year award.

Your opinion of him is based upon his great title runs in 94 and 95. He was in the league for ten years prior to that run and was nowhere near the skilled post player he was in his prime.

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Russell, Robertson, Chamberlain,

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Duncan, Oneal,

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Petit,

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You could argue Hakeem over all these

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You could say Jabbar is criminally under rated as GOAT

He's the best ever HS player
He's the best ever College player
He holds the scoring record and was all NBA for a decade and NBA All Defensive multiple times

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All of this.

I said this before too.

No one will ever have a resume like Kareem.

Kareem went something like 150-4 in his high school and college careers combined winning 6 championships.

3X National College player of the year (he couldn't play as a freshman otherwise he would have been 4X player of the year...his freshman team beat UCLA's varsity national champ squad in a game.)

3X NCAA tournament player of the year.

19X All-Star

6X NBA MVP

6X NBA Champion

Kareem won 12 championships. (3 in high school, 3 in college and 6 in the Pros)

If we're narrowing this argument down to GOAT, then yeah, Kareem is definitely a candidate after MJ. But that's not what this thread is about.