Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean Jacques Wamutombo Net Worth is $13 Million
Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean Jacques Wamutombo Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo (born June 25, 1966), 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 (2.18 m), 260-pound (120 kg; 19 st) center who began his career with the Georgetown Hoyas 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.
NBA Defensive Player of the Year Award, NBA All-Defensive Team, NBA All-Rookie Team, National Basketball Association Awards - J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award, Laureus World Sports Award for Sport for Good
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Waggling his finger after blocking a shot
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Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.
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(December 30) Signed a contract for the rest of the 2008-09 season with the Houston Rockets. [2008]
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Professional basketball player with the Denver Nuggets (1991-1996), Atlanta Hawks (1996-1997 to 2000-2001[start]), Philadelphia 76ers (2000-2001[end] to 2001-2002), New Jersey Nets (2002-2003), New York Knicks (2003-2004), and Houston Rockets (2004-2009).
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Wife Rose Mutombo is long time friend to FTC Publications' Director Regina Niallah since 1996 meeting by chance at 46 home basketball games in Atlanta. They sat right next to each other for 2 seasons.
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Fulfilled a lifelong dream by opening the doors to the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital and Research Center while contributing 15 million dollars to the facility. The 300-bed hospital will provide health care to people in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where Mutombo was born.
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Attended a Salvation Army school in Kinshasa (Congo) from the sixth grade through 11th grade.
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Speaks English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and five African dialects.
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In 1999, won the seventh annual Henry P. Iba Citizen Athlete Award, presented to athletes who excel and help others
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Wears size 22 basketball shoes, the largest in the NBA (Shaquille O'Neal also wears the same size)
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Dikembe and his wife, Rose, have one daughter, Carrie Biamba Wamutumbo, and a new baby boy, Jean Jacques Dikembe Mutumbo Mplombo, Jr
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Selected by the Denver Nuggets in the first round (fourth pick overall) of the 1991 NBA Draft
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Signed as a free agent by the Atlanta Hawks on July 15, 1996
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Traded by Atlanta with Roshown McLeod to Philadelphia for Theo Ratliff, Toni Kukoc, Nazr Mohammed and Juan "Pepe" Sanchez on February 22, 2001
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Traded by Philadelphia to New Jersey for for Keith Van Horn and Todd MacCulloch on August 6, 2002