When it was announced that the Hawks were going to tear down their imaginary, deeply prohibitive, never focused boundaries around retiring awesome players' jerseys, I was super-stoked that it was Dikembe Mutombo that was the first to be honored.
I wrote about it at the time and had a list of reasons why I thought it was appropriate.
- Mutombo, by my own measures, admittedly, came in at #4 in the Greatest of All-Time Atlanta Hawks list I did in 2010. He came in only behind Dominique, John Drew and the late Dan Roundfield.