“Wanted to stab him” Vernon Maxwell reveals how he was close to stabbing Hakeem Olajuwon during wild halftime fight
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Hakeem Olajuwon and Vernon Maxwell
Vernon Maxwell is back in the NBA headlines as sitting alongside Josiah Johnson and Gilbert Arenas on “No Chill with Gilbert Arenas” show, he said out a wild moment he had with Hakeem Olajuwon where he almost got blood on his hand. He gave the NBA world another wild locker room story where players almost lost it all on their teammates and had to be separated by the security. Vernon Maxwell and Hakeem Olajuwon both back in the days weren’t that great of guys as they’ll often make headlines for some fights and altercations. But things changed for The Dream once he converted his religion to Muslim. As there onwards he was a quiet and humble guy.
Vernon Maxwell has spent some of the best years of his career in the league with Houston Rockets playing alongside Hakeem Olajuwon. As they together won two NBA championships and dominated the league for two straight years until Michael Jordan decided to come back. Vernon Maxwell is also known as “Mad Max” and there are reasons behind it which everyone is well aware of. But even The Dream had himself a bad name in the league back in the days which not many are aware with. So Mad Max did a pretty good job letting everyone know as he revealed an unforgettable moment of his with the Big Guy in the locker room at Seattle.
Vernon Maxwell wanted to stab Hakeem Olajuwon to death after getting slapped
Vernon Maxwell revealing how Hakeem Olajuwon really was before converting into Muslim said: “When he was not a Muslim he was tough to deal with… He slapped the sh*t out of me. He walked up on me in Seattle. You know that long as* walk from court to locker room in Seattle. We got a long as* walk back to locker room from the court at halftime. I am mad as hell I prolly got four or five points, I am spitting on the floor while I am walking. He walking behind me. I am like ‘This some bullsh*t man you all motherfu*kers man get up that goddamn rock…’ He told me to be a professional and I said ‘Dream Fu*k you man I don’t wanna listen that’… so he came in the locker room… So he came to me in the locker room, I looked up and said Go Ahead and he slapped the sh*t out of me and I was knocked out on the chair.”
Further, Vernon Maxwell mentioning what he did after getting slapped that hard by some strong hands of Olajuwon quoted: “I jumped up grabbed my chair and folded it at that motherf*cker. Busted the glass in all of the damn locker room. Everybody running out and police coming in with their guns drawn and are like ‘Max please put it down’ I was like Oh lord they got guns out on me at a professional halftime in a professional game… I picked up a big piece of glass and I was gonna chase Dream and stab the sh*t out of him… but that’s how he was before.”
Both of them were a complete menace back in the days. But there onwards things for them changed and Houston Rockets outshined the league. Vernon though was still a tough guy in the league and kept making headlines for some unwanted business as he wasn’t the one to hold back on anyone and even MJ made it to that list of his.
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