Mutombo was a different kind of star to have a shoe deal as his talents laid more on the defensive side than the offensive. Celtics star Antoine Walker was at his peak in the late 1990s and early ...

In one commercial for his shoe, he took a jab at Jordan and told the camera: 'Man does not fly in the house of Mutombo.' In 2013, the Adidas Mutombo was released as a retro shoe and quickly sold out.