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Join Date: Sep 2019
Location: Red state
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RIP Dikembe Mutombo
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Posts: 2,731
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09-30-2024, 02:01 PM | #16 |
SNAP THE ****ING BALL!!!
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: KCMO
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Posts: 11,679
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09-30-2024, 02:03 PM | #17 |
Pedantic
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Rocky Ford
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Damn, grew up watching him play. RIP
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Posts: 16,624
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09-30-2024, 02:05 PM | #18 |
MVP
Join Date: Jan 2015
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NOOOOOOO!
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Posts: 6,704
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09-30-2024, 02:08 PM | #19 |
YOU take YOUR seat
Join Date: Nov 2007
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sad, RIP
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Posts: 35,502
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09-30-2024, 02:20 PM | #20 |
I'll **** anything that moves!
Join Date: Jan 2022
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An indelible image from 1994 when they shocked the #1 seed SuperSonics. Guy was so likable and incredible humanitarian. His laugh was infectious and he’s gonna be sorely missed. RIP big man.
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09-30-2024, 03:00 PM | #21 | |
Suupraa Geniuuusss
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: North Phoenix, AZ
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I remember this story. Apparently, Dikembe, along with several other players, raised over $100 million to build that hospital in the village he grew up in. It was the first hospital in that region, and the only one for hundreds of miles or something like that. Since they opened the doors, tens of thousands have been treated there, and who knows how many thousands of lives were saved. Truly a good Samaritan. RIP, Dikembe. |
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09-30-2024, 03:02 PM | #22 |
Veteran
Join Date: Aug 2003
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Seemed like a really great guy. Sad to see him go
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Posts: 4,724
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09-30-2024, 03:04 PM | #23 |
pie is never free
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: the drivers seat
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Such a great guy on and off the court, he genuinely put his money where his mouth was for the people of his hometown and elsewhere
58, damn man... RIP |
Posts: 94,803
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09-30-2024, 03:12 PM | #24 |
Starter
Join Date: Sep 2024
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He was good for the NBA
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Posts: 60
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09-30-2024, 04:18 PM | #25 |
Seize life. Be an ermine.
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: My house
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He was definitely one of the good guys in the world. RIP to him.
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Posts: 143,134
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09-30-2024, 04:35 PM | #26 |
YOU take YOUR seat
Join Date: Nov 2007
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I have a dumb story about him
A night with friends and drinking at someone's house we were playing trivial pursuit with a bunch of women and this guy, who was a good friend, gets super competitive about anything especially when drinking. So he's really into it, the question comes up "Which NBA player is known for killing a lion with a spear in Africa?" And I'm like, 90% sure it's Manute Bol and he's all like "NO, IT HAS TO BE MUTUMBO, HE LOOKS LIKE A BADASS THAT COULD DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT, MANUTE BOL IS SKINNY AND LOOKS WEAK THERE'S NO WAY" so after 5 minutes of arguing about it we go with Mutumbo because it was teams or whatever and of course it was the wrong answer. It was Manute Bol. The rest of the night he's going on about how he's the smartest guy on the planet and he can't believe he was wrong but he'll listen to me about sports from now on. Dumb story, but anytime Dikembe Mutumbo or Manute Bol gets brought up I think of that trivial pursuit game lol. RIP |
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09-30-2024, 05:11 PM | #27 |
In Search of a Life
Join Date: Aug 2008
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Rough day for sports
Now RIP pete rose as well |
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09-30-2024, 05:18 PM | #28 | |
Seize life. Be an ermine.
Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: My house
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09-30-2024, 11:16 PM | #29 |
Veteran
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: DE
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I feelsbsdman that Dikembe doesnt get his due because Rose. "NO NO NO NO"
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