Dalia Asafi: Biography, Family and Private Life0

• Celebrities
• August 13, 2026

Dalia Asafi is best known as the wife of former NBA superstar Hakeem Olajuwon. She married the basketball Hall of Famer in Houston on August 8, 1996, in an arranged marriage rooted in their shared Islamic faith. At the time, Dalia was 18 and Olajuwon was 33. Contemporary reporting from Deseret News confirmed the marriage