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  1. Before he was introduced to basketball,
  2. HakeemΓÇÖs game was handball. He was
  3. well known in his region of Nigeria,
  4. called Lagos, as a great handball
  5. player. In 1979, the same year he was
  6. introduced to basketball, he played for
  7. Lagos in both sports at the Nigerian
  8. National All-Sports festival. Sometimes
  9. he would play in games for both teams
  10. on the same day. He led the handball
  11. team in scoring and led the basketball
  12. team in rebounding. Both teams won
  13. gold medals that year.