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Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo ( born June 25, 1966 ), commonly referred to as Dikembe Mutombo, is a retired Congolese American professional basketball player who last played for the Houston Rockets of the NBA.
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* Congolese Dikembe Mutombo ( Four time NBA Defensive Player of the Year, selected fourth overall by the Denver Nuggets in the 1991 NBA Draft and 8-time NBA All-Star )
Feeling the team needed an established center to advance deep into the playoffs, Philadelphia acquired Dikembe Mutombo from the Atlanta Hawks in a deal that sent Ratliff, Nazr Mohammed, Toni Kukoč, and Pepe Sanchez to Atlanta ( Sanchez was reacquired later in the season after the Hawks waived him ).
Denver took a positive step in rebuilding by drafting 7 – 2 Georgetown University center Dikembe Mutombo in 1991.
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About 2, 000 people attended, including Bono, Dikembe Mutombo, Michael W. Smith, Richard Stearns ( President of World Vision ), and David Beckmann ( President of Bread for the World ).
Prior to the 2004 – 05 season ( after four seasons in Chicago ), Crawford was traded, along with Jerome Williams, to the Knicks for Dikembe Mutombo, Othella Harrington, Frank Williams and Cezary Trybanski.
Notable retired foreign-born players include Hakeem Olajuwon ( Nigeria ), who won an MVP award, two Defensive Player of the Year awards, and two Finals MVP awards, and Dikembe Mutumbo ( DR Congo ), who won four Defensive Player of the Year awards.
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Dikembe Mutombo is regarded as the best overall pick in this draft, becoming one of the greatest defensive centers in the history of the league.
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* Ilo Mutombo, brother of Dikembe Mutombo, played college basketball for USI and co-starred with Kevin Bacon in the movie " The Air Up There ".
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Ewing's successor as the starting center at Georgetown, Dikembe Mutombo, who played most of his NBA career with the Denver Nuggets and Atlanta Hawks, was less adept offensively, but proved an even more dominant defender.
She was brought to the United States by NBA star and fellow countryman, Dikembe Mutombo, and his brother Tshitingo Mutombo, who personally appealed to the government officials in Zaire for permission to bring her to the U. S.
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On August 6, 2002 Van Horn was traded to his original team, the Philadelphia 76ers along with Todd MacCulloch for center Dikembe Mutumbo.
He has also given Dikembe Mutombo a check for $ 100, 000 to help with the construction of an operating room for the hospital Mutumbo built in the Congo.
During the 2004 offseason, he was involved in yet another trade, one that sent him and Jamal Crawford to the New York Knicks for Dikembe Mutombo, Frank Williams, Othella Harrington and Cezary Trybanski.
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He has won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award four times, a record he shares with Dikembe Mutombo.
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Thompson coached many notable players, including Patrick Ewing, Sleepy Floyd, Alonzo Mourning, Dikembe Mutombo and Allen Iverson.
* On November 27, 1992, after Dikembe Mutombo blocked a layup by Danny Manning, Chris Jackson caught the ball, raced upcourt and launched a running buzzer beater from beyond halfcourt which swished through to give Denver a dramatic 109 – 106 win over the Clippers.
He ranks fourth on the Hoyas'all-time blocked shots list with 255, behind Patrick Ewing, Alonzo Mourning and Dikembe Mutombo.
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