Dikembe Mutombo starting treatment after brain tumor diagnosis

[209life]

RIP Dikembe

 

[sunshine11]

2002)​

Mutombo with the 76ers in 2002

 

[sunshine11]

Death​

On October 15, 2022, Mutombo announced that he was undergoing treatment for a brain tumor. He died in Atlanta from brain cancer surrounded by his family on September 30, 2024, at the age of 58

 

[sunshine11]

Dikembe Mutombo

Mutombo

 

[sunshine11]

Mutombo with the Houston Rockets in 2006

 

[sunshine11]

Remember when he was on Denver.

 

[Wagerallsports]

Everyone went crazy for his Upper Deck Rookie cards along with Larry Johnson which were vastly overproduced

 

[harpo]

R.I.P. he was a GOOD Man in LIFE.

 

[RRsilver]

Remember when he played in collage. Him and Mourning the twin towers. What a combo. RIP

 

[jjgold]

Too big

Real tall guys don’t live long

 

[charliebrown]

He was a good dude too. Very funny

 

[Wagerallsports]

The originator

 

[djefferis]

Everyone went crazy for his Upper Deck Rookie cards along with Larry Johnson which were vastly overproduced

Everyone went absolutely nuts for those things - because basketball cards were a relatively new thing. Sure they made them before - but the production numbers were minimal prior to NBA Hoops coming out in 1989/1990 and then the floodgates opening when the NBA licensed to anyone with a printing press who would give them 25% of the gross take.

Makes me sick the stuff I held on to - versus just selling it all at the peak and buying up 86/87 Jordan’s. I remember when Jordan rookie was pretty range bound at 800-1k. A UD Mutumbo or ‘Zo was like $10 and LJ a little less. What’s 100 of those Mutumbo rookies worth now compared to 1 Jordan ?

Kind of like the ‘54 Aaron I traded once for a couple of 1989 UD sets and a few Griffey’s - Aaron was poor - but authentic. Guy who I traded it to was a Braves fan. This was like 1990 - a few years later he saw me and said “man - you won that deal” - wonder if he’d like to reverse the deal now ?

 

[Wagerallsports]

defense is half the game

Not in today’s NBA it’s closer to 0% lol

 

[djefferis]

Not in today’s NBA it’s closer to 0% lol

Exactly - it since the early 2000s at least.

Moment Jordan stepped away the last time it seems to have went out the window.

Now circa 1988-89 or when the Rockets were winning championships - different story. You simply didn’t out score those “Bad boys” teams or guys like Hakeem, Thorpe, Maxwell and Horry.