Top Stories

Michael Olowokandi Rumors

All NBA Players
#0
Michael Olowokandi
Michael Olowokandi
Position: -
Born: 04/03/75
Height: 7-0 / 2.13
Weight:270 lbs. / 122.5 kg.
Earnings: $37,906,690 ($62,149,627*)

Quentin Richardson on Michael Olowokandi: 'He was like on some real Coming to America's Prince Akeem stuff living overseas'

This is the part people don’t know. Olowokandi didn’t grow up like the rest of us. He didn’t play basketball until he got to college. He was like on some real Prince Akeem stuff (Coming to America) living overseas and said he wanted to come to college in California. He picked Pacific. The coach saw him on campus like, “Come here, son. You need to do this (basketball).” He had never played basketball before. Olowokandi played more soccer. To know that he went from never playing to becoming the No. 1 pick, that’s an accomplishment. People that pick up basketball that late don’t get to go to the NBA and be a professional athlete.
Darius Miles on Michael Olowokandi: When he was playing with us, he was putting it together just like all of us. All of us had some type of talent in us to do a lot of things. Everybody had their own niche. That’s why it worked so much. We pushed each other, and we rooted for each other just as hard. With him, he was just trying to put it together. He was the No. 1 pick. He tried his best to be as good as he could be, and he was a good teammate.