Dikembe Mutombo!

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Currently there is no better global ambassador for the NBA than Dikembe Mutombo. He has done more to improve the lives of his fellow Africans than the pompous Bono could possible imagine.

http://www.dmf.org/

He's also a member of Jimmy Kimmel's sketch crew. I good-natured giant with the voice of an angel. He should seriously consider a career in opera.

 
The best.

Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo.
 
I think Mutumbo donated something silly like 75 million to build hospitals in Africa.

Whoops stand corrected.....

In 1997, Mutombo with the Mutombo Foundation began plans to open a $29 million, 300-bed hospital on the outskirts of his hometown, the Congolese capital of Kinshasa. Ground was broken in 2001, but construction didn't start until 2004, as Mutombo had trouble getting donations early on although he personally donated $3.5 million toward the hospital's construction.[54] Initially Mutombo had some other difficulties, almost losing the land to the government because it was not being used and having to pay refugees who had begun farming the land to leave. He also struggled to reassure some that he did not have any ulterior or political motives for the project.[54] The project has been on the whole very well received at all social and economic levels in Kinshasa.[54]

On August 14, 2006, Dikembe had donated $15 million to the completion of the hospital for its ceremonial opening on September 2, 2006. It was by then named Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital, for his late mother, who died of a stroke in 1997.[70]

When it opened in 2007, the $29 million facility became the first modern medical facility to be built in that area in nearly 40 years.[71] His hospital is on a 12-acre (49,000 m2) site on the outskirts of Kinshasa in Masina, where about a quarter of the city's 7.5 million residents live in poverty. It is minutes from Kinshasa's airport and near a bustling open-air market.
 
Did Bono donate any money toward the building of Miamba Marie Mutombo Hospital? DM, should become the next General Secretary of The United Nations.

 
Did Bono donate any money toward the building of Miamba Marie Mutombo Hospital? DM, should become the next General Secretary of The United Nations.


I could get behind that. He's a great humanitarian, intelligent and multilingual.
 
I could get behind that. He's a great humanitarian, intelligent and multilingual.

Kirk you surprise me.

I got a scholarship to attend Georgetown University, but he didn't waste his time partying. He got degrees in linguistics and diplomacy, he was planning his life after basketball. The NBA is lucky to have him as an ambassador - he truly is the most interesting man in the world.

Of course he can't be regal all the time, so he gets his RR by schticking with Jimmy Kimmel.

 
Someone at Raps TV took DKM's comments about The Biz using hi finger wag out of context, he was joking.

 
Too bad he didn't have an offensive game, but anyway he's a credit to his race, the human race!
 
Dikembe's paisan The Biz doesn't have much of an offensive game either, but I'm sad he's leaving the Raps.

 
I loved seeing him and Hakeem taking the court in the NBA Africa game.

https://youtu.be/JNSJ-ejPt0k


Classy guy.

I hate watching Steph Curry trying to act all 'street' when there are plenty of guys in and around the league worth looking up to.
 
Guy was a defensive beast in the NBA. And he also seemed like a nice guy too. And donating tons of career earnings to built a hospital?

Yup, a beast.

More athletes should be like him.
 
Too bad he didn't have an offensive game, but anyway he's a credit to his race, the human race!

Who needs offense when his D was that great. Having a guy swat that many balls sure tends to keep people out of the key.

BTW, his offense wasn't like Kareem or Wilt but he put up a solid 10 ppg even including after his knees went. A career averaging a double double + 3 blocks per game...


Man, Georgetown sure had some great centers in the day.