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ADAM SILVER NBA COMMISSIONER Mutombo’s brother, Ilo, was a former basketball player in his own right, playing for the University of Indiana Screaming Eagles from 1987 to 1991.
The International Labour Organization (ILO), a UN agency, predicts in a report released Wednesday that 53 million jobs will be created worldwide in 2025 — 7 million fewer than previously thought ...
Mutombo did not play basketball until midadolescence, having preferred soccer as a child. An older brother, Ilo, and his father, Samuel, encouraged him to try the sport in which his outsize frame ...
Mutombo funded $15 million of the $29 million ... In his Hall of Fame acceptance speech, he thanked his older brother, Ilo, for introducing him to basketball at age 17. That introduction was ...
Dominance on the court Mutombo’s journey from the Democratic Republic of Congo to NBA superstardom defied the odds. He arrived in the United States on an academic scholarship to become a doctor ...
ATLANTA — Last September, NBA great and philanthropist Dikembe Mutombo lost his valiant battle with brain cancer. The family had a service at the time, but it didn’t allow everyone whose life ...