Dr. Groesbeck Parham remembers walking the streets of Atlanta with the late Dikembe Mutombo. "I was there visiting, and he had to get his passport renewed, so we parked the car and we were walking ...

Mutombo educated him on his upbringing in the Congo, the conditions his homeland faced, and how he vowed to help. “That’s who he was. No one asked him to do those things — it was just an ...

At that moment, there were no thoughts of Mutombo joining the two famous centers on the school’s Mt. Rushmore of big men. No one was even sure if he would play a game for the Hoyas. In the ...

N BA Hall of Famer and former All-Star center Dikembe Mutombo has passed away at age 58 today and the world mourns a great ...

Williams laughed at the memory. “I told him, ‘No they wouldn’t! You’re too big for that! They’re going to run from you!'” Williams, like Mutombo, played college ball at Georgetown.

Former Philadelphia 76ers big man Dikembe Mutombo is ranked as the 10th-best international player in NBA history.

I don’t know, if I’d gone to some city that is very flat, like other cities in America where there’s no mountains, would they ...

"A lot of people don't realize it" It's also worth noting that Jokic and Embiid have rarely gone up against defensive big men as elite as Mutombo. Since Deke's prime years, no other center has ...

The NBA is paying tribute to one of its best defensive players ever. Late great center Dikembe Mutombo, who sadly died at just 58 following a battle with brain cancer on Sept. 30 last year ...

built for their 10 kids—Mutombo was a soccer player throughout high school. No, it’s that he possessed an agile mind and sweeping ambitions. There were so many concepts to grasp, languages to ...

The NBA is honoring one of its most beloved and influential players by announcing the NBA Africa Dikembe Mutombo Humanitarian Award, writes Marc J. Spears of Andscape. The Hall of Fame center ...