What would he have said if Olajuwon had hit a third shot?
By Dwight Perry--The Seattle Times
August 9, 2004
Ever wonder how those ESPN anchors come up with those crazy catch-phrases?  In Craig Kilborn's case, it's good to have a blood brother.

Kilborn, one of five former ESPN anchors making guest appearances on "SportsCenter" this week, recalled the night that Hakeem Olajuwon returned to the Houston Rockets' lineup after being sidelined with anemia.

Said Kilborn: "I was talking to my brother, and he said, 'His red blood cell count must be up.'  I said, 'That's great.  Give me something else related to blood.,' and he said, 'Hemoglobin.'

"So that night Olajuwon hits a jumper and I say 'His red blood cell count must be up.'  He hits another, and I say, 'Hemoglobin.'"

Good thing Olajuwon didn't make one off the glass, because, as Larry Stewart of the Los Angeles Times noted, ESPN viewers might have been treated to "blood bank."