Dikembe Mutombo dead aged 58: Tributes pour in for NBA Hall of Fame legend after death following brain cancer

FORMER NBA prima Dikembe Mutombo has died astatine the property of 58.

The Hall of Famer passed distant aft a brave conflict against encephalon cancer.

Mutombo spent 18 years playing successful the NBA for immoderate of the apical teams.

And tributes person poured successful for the legend, who besides made 8 all-star appearances.

A connection from NBA commissioner Adam Silver read: “Kiembe Mutombo was simply larger than life.

“On the court, helium was 1 of the top changeable blockers and antiaircraft players successful the past of the NBA.

“Off the floor, helium poured his heard and psyche into helping others. There was cipher much qualified than Dikembe to service arsenic the NBA’s archetypal Global Ambassador.

“He was a humanitarian astatine heart. He loved what the crippled of hoops could bash to marque a affirmative interaction connected communities, particularly successful his autochthonal Democratic Republic of Congo and crossed the continent of Africa."

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