Drexler was selected 14th overall in the 1983 NBA Draft by the Portland Trail Blazers. He helped lead that team to the NBA Finals in 1990 and 1992, with the help of teammates Terry Porter, Jerome Kersey, Buck Williams and Clifford Robinson.
In 1992 he was selected to the U.S. Olympics basketball team, nicknamed "The Dream Team", which won the gold medal in Barcelona. He finished second to Michael Jordan in Most Valuable Player voting in 1991-92. He would meet Jordan's Chicago Bulls in the NBA Finals that same season only to fall short, as Jordan and the Bulls went on to win their second consecutive championship.
On February 14, 1995, with the Blazers out of serious contention for a championship, Portland honored Drexler's request to be traded to a contender and sent the Blazer great to the Houston Rockets. The fortunes of the Rockets, who were struggling to regain the championship form they had a year earlier, quickly improved after the acquisition of Drexler. Delighted at being reunited with long-time friend Hakeem Olajuwon and playing in his home town, Drexler helped the Rockets win the NBA title in 1995. He stayed with the Rockets for three more seasons before retiring from the NBA after the 1997-98 season in order to become head men's basketball coach at his alma mater, the University of Houston. Drexler's #22 jersey has been retired by both the Rockets and the Trail Blazers. He was inducted as a player into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on September 10, 2004, in his first year of eligibility.
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