Chances are if you were a kid who was born in the late ’90s or early 2000s, you might be named after Shaquille O’Neal or Hakeem Olajuwon.
They are two of the greatest players in NBA history and, really, both made some pretty huge claims to fame back then.
Olajuwon won back-to-back NBA titles with the Houston Rockets in 1994 and 1995 and was very obviously one of the best centers in his era. Shaq was one of his rivals throughout the 1990s and they actually met in the NBA Finals once. Shaq lost to Olajuwon, but eventually won some titles himself in the early 2000s with the Lakers.
