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Mutombo would have a successful rookie year, finishing runner-up to Larry Johnson for the NBA rookie of the year that season.
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Led by Mutombo, Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf ( who changed his name from Chris Jackson prior to the season ), and Ellis, Denver would finish with its first winning season since the Doug Moe era at 42 – 40.
McDyess would be the face of the franchise for the next few years, as Mutombo would leave after the 1995 – 96 season for the Atlanta Hawks, Ellis would miss the majority of the next few seasons due to recurring knee and leg injuries, and Abdul-Rauf was traded to the Sacramento Kings prior to the 1996 – 97 season.
Mutombo and have
Dikembe Mutombo and Ben Wallace have each won the award four times.
Past clients have included Michael Jordan, Patrick Ewing, Allen Iverson, and Dikembe Mutombo.
Mutombo and year
The 2000 – 01 76ers featured the NBA's MVP ( Iverson ), the NBA's coach of the year ( Brown ), the Defensive Player of the Year ( Mutombo ), and the Sixth Man of the Year ( Aaron McKie ).
Mutombo and for
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.
In the second game of the first round of the 2009 NBA playoffs, Mutombo suffered a knee injury that kept him out for the remainder of the postseason.
Building on the shot-blocking power of Mutombo and teammate Alonzo Mourning, Georgetown fans created a " Rejection Row " section under the basket, adding a big silhouette of an outstretched hand to a banner for each shot blocked during the game.
A cornerstone in the Nuggets ' frontcourt, Mutombo became one of the league's best defensive players, regularly putting up big rebound and block numbers for five years with the club while averaging about 11 points a game.
The Hawks traded Mutombo to the Eastern Conference-leading Philadelphia 76ers in February 2001 for their injured center Theo Ratliff, as the Sixers needed a replacement stellar big man to compete with Western Conference powers Tim Duncan or Shaquille O ' Neal, should they reach the finals.
After contemplating retirement and spending the first part of 2008 as an unsigned unrestricted free agent, on December 31, 2008, Mutombo signed with the Houston Rockets for the remainder of the 2008 – 2009 season.
In Game 1 of Houston's first round playoff series against Portland, Mutombo played for 18 minutes and had nine rebounds, two blocks, and a steal.
* Ilo Mutombo, brother of Dikembe Mutombo, played college basketball for USI and co-starred with Kevin Bacon in the movie " The Air Up There ".
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.
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.
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.
Mutombo and NBA
* 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 )
Soon after the injury, Mutombo announced he had played his last games in the NBA.
Also, on March 2, 2007, in a win over the Denver Nuggets, at the age of 41, Mutombo became the oldest player in NBA history to record more than 20 rebounds in a game with 22.
He has won the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award four times, a record he shares with Dikembe Mutombo.
* NBA star Dikembe Mutombo received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters ( L. H. D.
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.
Mutombo, who had not played basketball before arriving in the U. S. from his native Zaire on a USAID scholarship, was among the greatest shot blockers in NBA history, leading the NBA in blocked-shots five consecutive years, in the course of a career in which he ranked second in the history of the league in blocked shots, behind only Hakeem Olajuwon.
* Dikembe Mutombo – former NBA star
Mutombo and season
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 ).
But Mutombo spent most of that season with a nagging injury that limited him to just 24 games.
In his first season with the Rockets ( 2004 – 05 ), Mutombo averaged 15. 2 MPG, 5. 3 RPG, and 4. 0 PPG.
In the 2007 – 08 season, Mutombo yet again received extensive playing time when Yao went down with a broken bone and averaged double digits in rebounding as a starter.
Mutombo and .
Denver took a positive step in rebuilding by drafting 7 – 2 Georgetown University center Dikembe Mutombo in 1991.
Mutombo attended Georgetown University on a USAID scholarship, and his original intention was to become a doctor ; however, the Georgetown Hoyas basketball coach John Thompson recruited him to play basketball.
At the end of Game 5, Mutombo fell to the ground, holding the ball over his head in a moment of joy.
Mutombo continued to put up excellent defensive numbers with his new team.
Mutombo most recently played as a reserve behind Yao Ming, forming one of the NBA's most productive center combos.
The additional playing time gave Mutombo the opportunity to continue accruing blocked shots at a record-setting pace.
On January 10, 2008, in a 102 – 77 rout of the Los Angeles Lakers, Mutombo recorded 5 blocked shots and surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in total career blocked shots.
Mutombo is currently second only to Hakeem Olajuwon.
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