The best Rockets player ever also had some other skills that you may not have known about.
There was a cool tidbit on the greatest Rocket of all-time in Dime Magazine of Uproxx this past weekend. Appartently, Hakeem Olajuwon once ate over 100 chicken nuggets as part of a commercial shoot he did for McDonald's early in his career.
According to Dime:
"Olajuwon was filming a McDonald's commercial, wherein the premise required him to slam dunk Chicken McNuggets into this mouth. For unknown reasons, it took a while to get the commercial exactly right, leading to a taping that took five hours and over 100 takes.