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.

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 ...

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 ...

Dikembe Mutombo, a towering NBA Hall of Famer who was renowned for his defensive dominance and finger-wagging celebrations, has died from brain cancer, the NBA said in a statement on Monday.

Dikembe Mutombo's finger wag was forbidding, even as the man himself was an icon of acceptance. Shaun Powell Renowned for blocking all comers on the court, Dikembe Mutombo welcomed and helped all ...

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 ...

Dikembe Mutombo, the beloved basketball player who spent the first five seasons of his Hall of Fame career in Denver, died Monday from brain cancer, the NBA announced. He was 58. His family ...

Many of them can do a solid imitation of the Dikembe Mutombo finger wag. After all, they saw the original up close. Vernon Maxwell, a longtime guard, does a particularly strong version by adding ...

One of the players that actually looked forward to the matchup was legendary shot-blocker Dikembe Mutombo – who believes his clashes with "Mr. Air" enabled him to become a greater All-Star.

Dikembe Mutombo, the Hall of Fame, finger-wagging center who spent much of his post-basketball career as an ambassador for the sport, died of brain cancer at the age of 58, the NBA announced Monday.