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this is what it has come to?
Oh Lord
Oh Lord
Hak will be waived by Orlando.
Through this year, according to basketball-reference he will have accrued $21,227,942.
My favorite SU player ever, I'm a Magic fan as well so this is a bummer.
Yep and so glad we ended up with him in the long run versus the overated J. Hodge. I see he had a great NBA career.Heck of a run for a skinny kid from Philly who never could defend a lick. Hopefully he has set up himself and his family well. I always enjoyed watching him at the Cuse.
The end of an NBA career can be extremely humbling, but he can wipe his tears with hundreds. Not so bad.
Heck of a run for a skinny kid from Philly who never could defend a lick. Hopefully he has set up himself and his family well. I always enjoyed watching him at the Cuse.
Hakim is one of my fav Orangemen. He deserves tremendous credit for carving out a very respectable NBA career.
Not only did he develop his physique, but rather advanced footwork that enabled a myriad of post moves by his junior year. Senior year he was a monster on the block. He worked very hard, and while fans may fault his defense, the work he did to put himself in position to have an 8+year NBA career may have meant he couldn't make much progress as a defender. You've got to be elite (or close) at something to stick in the league, and his athleticism + scoring ability near the basket is what got him there.Remember how skinny [and narrow shouldered] this guy was for his first three seasons at SU? I remember thinking back then that for all of his eye-popping athleticism, Hakim would never be able to make it in the pros with that physique. This is actually a huge success story IMO, not the disappointment some seem to associate with how his NBA career has unfolded.
Hope he latches on somewhere else, but even if he doesn't the kid did pretty damn well for himself.
I remember seeing Hak on his recruiting visit, walking around the concourse at the Dome and thinking "someone PhotoShopped a 12 year old's head onto an extremely tall, extremely skinny man's body."Remember how skinny [and narrow shouldered] this guy was for his first three seasons at SU? I remember thinking back then that for all of his eye-popping athleticism, Hakim would never be able to make it in the pros with that physique. This is actually a huge success story IMO, not the disappointment some seem to associate with how his NBA career has unfolded.
Hope he latches on somewhere else, but even if he doesn't the kid did pretty damn well for himself.
You know he got hurt, rightYep and so glad we ended up with him in the long run versus the overated J. Hodge. I see he had a great NBA career.