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HOFers Steal The Show In NBA's First-Ever Africa Exhibition

The NBA "put on a show in its first exhibition game in Africa" yesterday, culminating when African Basketball HOFers Hakeem Olajuwon and Dikembe Mutombo "stripped off their business suits to don their old team uniforms again and play for a little while." The 52-year-old Olajuwon, in a No. 34 Rockets jersey, "pulled off a turn-around jumper -- the 'Dream Shake' — that had the current NBA stars leaping off the benches with their arms in the air." The game was "largely about the entertainment factor, with cheerleaders and several NBA team mascots mixing it up with the South African crowd." NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said that the exhibition in downtown Johannesburg "was the NBA's biggest step into Africa so far, and could be the pre-cursor to a preseason and maybe even a regular season game on the continent" (AP, 8/1). Team World defeated team Africa in the exhibition 101-97 (THE DAILY).

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