Rudy Gobert (3x) joins Dikembe Mutombo (4x), Ben Wallace (4x), and Dwight Howard (3x) as the fourth player to win Defensive Player of the Year at least three times! Check out some of the top defensive ...

Dikembe Mutombo (SLL ’91), the late basketball hall of famer and humanitarian, will receive the NCAA’s Theodore Roosevelt ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- NBA legend and basketball Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo is receiving treatment for a brain tumor in Atlanta, the league announced Saturday. The 56-year-old former shot-blocking ...

Dikembe was a great humanitarian,” he says. “When I told him I wanted to go with him to the library and clinics he was building to write about those things, he said to me, ‘Why are you covering the ...

Lisa Opoku knew she needed to be here, to speak from the heart and celebrate a man she considered larger than life. She met Dikembe Mutombo at a restaurant in New York and soon began working with him ...

Per Shams Charania of The Athletic, former New York Knicks center Dikembe Mutombo has passed away at the age of 58 after a bout with brain cancer. Mutombo, inducted into the Naismith Memorial ...

The 8-time All-Star and 4-time Defensive Player of the Year passed away from brain cancer. Tim Reynolds | Associated Press A larger-than-life figure and an indomitable spirit, Dikembe Mutombo was one ...