Drexler is widely known as a star NCAA and NBA basketball player.He is known as The Glide" and is an American retired professional basketball swingman. During his career, he was a ten-time All-Star, named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. Drexler won an Olympic gold medal in 1992 as part of the 1992 United States men's Olympic basketball team ("The Dream Team") and an NBA Championship in 1995 with the Houston Rockets. He is a two-time Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductee (being inducted 2004 for his individual career, and in 2010 as a member of the "Dream Team". He currently serves as a color commentator for Rockets home games."