On a day filled with unexpected sadness, the expectations are still quite loud and undeniable in Philadelphia.
Dikembe Mutombo, a Basketball Hall of Famer who was one of the best defensive players in NBA history and a longtime global ambassador for the game, died Monday from brain ...
He was the missing piece. The best defender. The Hall of Fame glass-master. There’s no way the 76ers reach the NBA Finals in 2001 without the deadline addition of Dikembe Mutombo. He was the ...
Two sports standouts from the world of baseball (Pete Rose) and basketball (Dikembe Mutombo) both died on Monday.
The Hall-of-Famer played 18 seasons in the NBA, including for the Houston Rockets, and won Defensive Player of the Year four ...