The Los Angeles Lakers enter Wednesday as the fifth seed in the Western Conference. However, the mindset among players in the ...

Was Dikembe Mutombo on the flight? Mike Riley wondered as he stood in the waiting area at Dulles International Airport outside Washington, D.C. It was the late 1980s, when you could walk right up ...

But a strikingly tall man in the boarding area shrugged it off. Dikembe Mutombo knew, perhaps better than anyone, the quirks and customs of his home country. When the flight was held up ...

Like a train derailed, East Carolina basketball wasn't making any progress in December or the start of January. Over the last ...

Stewart is tied with Magic's Jonathan Isaac for the most blocks among bench players, averaging 1.3 per game. He has also been the catalyst for Detroit's defensive turnaround. Since Jan. 1,the Pistons ...

Former Denver Nuggets center and Hall of Fame inductee Dikembe Mutombo, 58, died from brain cancer on Sept. 30 in Atlanta after battling a brain tumor for two years. Mutombo began treatment for ...

A collage of former US President Barack Obama and Dikembe Mutombo. Former US President Barack Obama has mourned the passing of NBA Hall of Famer, former basketballer Dikembe Mutombo. Obama ...

Other honorees include Basketball Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo receiving the Muhammad Ali Legacy Award and NWSL commissioner Jessica Berman being named the inaugural Innovator of the Year winner.