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Dikembe Mutombo, a Hall of Fame player dies at 58 from brain cancer

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Last updated: 02/10/2024
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Dikembe Mutombo, a Basketball Hall of Famer who was one of the suitable defensive players in NBA historical past and a longtime global ambassador for the game, died Monday from brain cancer, the league announced. He was 58.

His family revealed two years ago that he was undergoing treatment in Atlanta for a brain tumor. The NBA said he died surrounded by his family.

“Dikembe Mutombo was simply larger than lifestyles,” NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said. “On the court docket, he was one of the greatest shot blockers and defensive players within the historical past of the NBA. Off the ground, he poured his heart and soul into helping others.”

Mutombo was distinctive in so many ways — the playful finger wag at opponents after blocking off their shots, his prime, his deep and gravelly direct, his massive smile. Players of this generation have been always drawn to him and Philadelphia 76ers star Joel Embiid, who was born in Cameroon, regarded to Mutombo as an inspiration.

“It’s a sad day, especially for us Africans, and really the overall world,” Embiid said Monday. “Other than what he’s accomplished on the basketball court docket, I assume he was even better off the court docket. He’s one of the guys that I examine up to, as far as having an impact, now not real on the court docket, however off the court docket. He’s achieved a lot of great issues. He did a lot of great issues for a lot of individuals. He was a characteristic mannequin of mine. It is a sad day.”

DRC President Felix Tshiseki despatched his deepest sympathies to Mutombo’s “familiy, fans and the people of the DRC”.

“A giant, an incredible person”

Mutombo spent 18 seasons within the NBA, playing for Denver, Atlanta, Houston, Philadelphia, Contemporary York and the then-Contemporary Jersey Nets. The 7-foot-2 heart out of Georgetown was an eight-time All-Star, three-time All-NBA want and went into the Hall of Fame in 2015 after averaging 9.8 substances and 10.3 rebounds per game for his career.

“It is really hard to assume,” Toronto President Masai Ujiri said Monday, pausing several times because he was overcome with emotion shortly after hearing the news of Mutombo’s death. “It is hard for us to be with out that guy. You have no idea what Dikembe Mutombo meant to me. … That guy, he made us who we are. That guy is a giant, an improbable particular person.”

Mutombo last played at some level of the 2008-09 season, devoting his time after retirement to charitable and humanitarian causes. He spoke 9 languages and based the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation in 1997, concentrating on improving health, education and quality of lifestyles for the individuals within the Congo.

Mutombo served on the boards of many organizations, along side Special Olympics International, the CDC Foundation and the National Board for the U.S. Fund for UNICEF.

“There was no one extra qualified than Dikembe to support as the NBA’s first Global Ambassador,” Silver said. “He was a humanitarian at his core. He cherished what the game of basketball may achieve to make a certain impact on communities, especially in his native Democratic Republic of the Congo and across the continent of Africa.”

Mutombo is one of three players to safe the NBA’s Defensive Player of the Year four occasions. The others: reigning DPOY winner Rudy Gobert of the Minnesota Timberwolves, and Hall of Famer Ben Wallace.

Philadelphia 76ers president Daryl Morey — who was with Mutombo for many seasons in Houston — was informed of his just right friend’s death at some level of the team’s media day on Monday. Tears welled in Morey’s eyes as he processed the information.

“There aren’t many guys like him,” Morey said. “Appropriate a great human being. When I was a rookie GM in this league, my first chance in Houston, he was anyone I went to all the time. … His accomplishments on the court docket, we don’t need to talk about too notable. Appropriate an amazing human being, what he did off the court docket for Africa. Leisure in peace, Dikembe.”

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