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EVEN IN A TALL MAN'S GAME, HE TENDS TO STAND OUT...
"how tall are you again?" "SEVEN-TWO..."
CENTER HASHEEM THABEET... ACCORDING TO HIS OFFICIAL N-B-A BIO, HASHEEM'S ARABIC TRANSLATION
IS "DESTROYER OF EVIL..." IF EVIL CAN BE DEFINED AS AN OPPONENTS SCORING, THEN HASHEEM WOULD
BE AN ACCURATE DESCRIPTION...
THE SHOT-BLOCKER FROM TANZANIA WAS A NATIONAL DEFENSIVE PLAYER OF THE YEAR AT UCONN... SO
GOOD HE WAS DRAFTED 2ND OVERALL BY MEMPHIS IN 2009...
BUT IF YOU TYPE IN HASHEEM THABEET ON GOOGLE, ONE OF THE SUGGESTIONS IS HASHEEM THABEET
BUST... IT'S NO ACCIDENT
"it hasn't been the way I've wanted to be. But I'm not really worrying about my past."
AFTER 3 BELOW AVERAGE SEASONS WITH 3 DIFFERENT TEAMS, SIGNING WITH THE THUNDER COULD BE THE
RIGHT FIT FOR THABEET'S DEVELOPMENT TO RESURRECT THE VISION OF A PROMINENT PRO CAREER...
"we take a lot of pride in developing our players. The moment we draft them or acquire
them through trade or free agency, we expect them to improve. And we do that with the work
that we put in with them."
"it's been such a tough road that I've been through and for me to be here and actually
have people believe in me, it's great so I just have to come out here and work hard."
"with Kendrick Perkins out for at least the preseason, that means there's going to be
a lot more playing time for the hopeful backup center. So Thabeet, the vanquisher of evil,
could exorcise some demons with the Thunder this fall. In oklahoma city, John Laws, Tulsa's
Channel 8 Sports."