The highlights of Dikembe Mutombo’s career are well-traveled tales. Clutching a basketball in joy, laying on the court in Seattle after the eighth-seeded Nuggets upset the top-seeded Sonics in the first-round of the 1994 NBA playoffs…. The many finger wags from thousands of blocked shots…. Giving his speech after being inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.
Mt. Mutombo is right. His impact on the game, on the Nuggets, and in his many humanitarian causes, was as large as scaling a 14er.
The always-jovial seven footer is tops in Nuggets history in blocks (1,486), second in total rebounds (4,811) and defensive rebounds (3,297), and is third in offensive rebounds (1,514).