A guard has won the defensive player-of-the-year award once in the past 26 seasons, and Daniels is making a case to be the first since Marcus Smart in the 2021-22 season.

1 / 10Dikembe Mutombo joined the Hawks’ Basketball Development staff to prepare a local youth basketball team for their trip to compete at Special Olympics Georgia. 1 / 10Dikembe Mutombo joined ...

Dr. Groesbeck Parham remembers walking the streets of Atlanta with the late Dikembe Mutombo. "I was there visiting, and he ...

The Atlanta Hawks are honoring Basketball Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo on Monday with a handful of neat tributes. A new court decal of Mutombo's silhouette doing his signature finger wag will be ...

The NBA is honoring one of its most beloved and influential players by announcing the NBA Africa Dikembe Mutombo Humanitarian ...

Dikembe Mutombo’s towering presence on the basketball court made him a household name. With his signature finger wag and unmatched shot-blocking ability, he dominated the NBA for nearly two decades.

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"If you were with him, you had nothing to worry about." Jerome Williams, a former Georgetown big said about Mutombo, another Hoyas alum.

1 / 16Al Horford, along with a group of former and current NBA players including Dikembe Mutombo, made the trip to Johannesburg, South 1 / 16Al Horford, along with a group of former and current ...

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and each time he gave a Dikembe Mutombo-esque finger wag. Stewart’s blocks were just two of the Pistons’ most impressive defensive stops en route to a 114-104 win over the Atlanta Hawks on ...