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Vernon Maxwell recounts the time he tried to stab Hakeem Olajuwon with glass

There was a blast from the past this week when Rockets legend Vernon Maxwell made an appearance on the "No Chill with Gilbert Arenas" podcast. Mad Max, as he came to be known, recounted an infamous locker room incident with Rockets icon Hakeem Olajuwon that got very ugly.

As Maxwell described it, at halftime of a '90s game against the Seattle Sonics, after he complained about his lack of shot attempts, Olajuwon slapped him in the locker room. Maxwell threw a chair at Olajuwon, shattering glass in the locker room and spurring police to enter the changing area, guns drawn.