Dikembe Mutombo
Center, Basketball Player
1966 –
Who is Dikembe Mutombo?
Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo, commonly referred to as Dikembe Mutombo, is a Congolese American retired professional basketball player who last played for the Houston Rockets of the NBA. Outside basketball, he has become known for his humanitarian work.
The 7 ft 2 in, 260-pound center is commonly referred to as one of the greatest shot blockers and defensive players of all time, winning the NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award four times; he was also an eight-time All-Star. On January 10, 2007, he surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the league's second most prolific shot blocker, in terms of career blocked shots, in NBA history, behind only Hakeem Olajuwon. 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. Soon after the injury, Mutombo announced he had played his last game in the NBA.
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- Born
- Jun 25, 1966
Kinshasa - Also known as
- Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo
- Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo
- Spouses
- Ethnicity
- African American
- Luba people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Profession
- Education
- Georgetown University
- Lived in
- Kinshasa
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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