Monday, September 17, 2007

Ramadan, Day 5

Today, I discovered (with much help from wad) that Hakeem Olajuwon (a devout Muslim who would fast during day NBA games during Ramadan and one of only 4 NBA players ever recorded to score a quadruple double), may have attained his quadruple double during one of the first few nights of Ramadan that year.

# Hakeem Olajuwon, March 29, 1990, Houston vs. Milwaukee; 18 points, 16 rebounds, 10 assists, 11 blocks.

Though I can't seem to find an exact date for when Ramadan started (*shakes fist at intertubes*), I have reason to believe it was March 27th, 1990.

Coolies.

5 comments:

  1. You didn't try hard enough.

    Searching "Ramadan 1410" (The Hijri equivalent of 1990) brings up this, among others --

    15 ramadan 1410 (11 avril 1990)

    (From a Morakkesh PDF file)

    Assuming Muslims aren't COMPLETELY retarded and more than 2 days off, Hakeem pulled off his quadruple double in Ramadan.

    You now have the information to calculate out the exact date (+/- a day), I'm too lazy.

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  2. Incidentally, the average blog has one reader.

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  3. i tried until i was sufficiently satisfied! i should('ve) noted that he didn't become that religious until the mid 90s. i'm unsure of whether or not he fasted before then. but still -- it's a ramadan miracle!

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  4. he's got a sweeet masjid. I remember the quadruple double. a ramadan miracle come true! forget world peace and and all that jazz, hakeem got a quadruple double!

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  5. Allahu akbar!

    :) good to hear from you, dude!

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