The recent death of Dikembe Mutombo and the start of the NBA regular season today highlight the fraught realities of building a talent pipeline between lower-income countries and the NBA.

As Gobert shot his first free throw, TNT announcers Ian Eagle and Stan Van Gundy began commemorating the late Dikembe Mutombo. But before Van Gundy could finish his kind words about Mutombo ...

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 ...

Argentina tops the standings but is under a little pressure when it welcomes Bolivia in Buenos Aires on Tuesday. The Argentines have taken just one point from their last two qualifiers - a 2-1 defeat ...

Manute Bol is probably the only NBA player to ever have a world premiere rap video broadcast during an NBA game. In 1986, the Washington Bullets (now Wizards) made a video about their 7-foot-7 center.

Argentina tops the standings but is under a little pressure when it welcomes Bolivia in Buenos Aires on Tuesday. The Argentines have taken just one point from their last two qualifiers - a 2-1 defeat ...

MANILA, Philippines — The National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) arrested 17 foreign nationals involved in large-scale online scamming activities on Friday, October 11. In a statement on Tuesday ...

South Africa's former Finance Minister Tito Mboweni attending the World Economic Forum on Africa in Cape Town, South Africa, on Sept 5, 2019. - Tito Mboweni, South Africa’s first Minister of ...

NBA Hall of Fame center Dikembe Mutombo passed away Sept. 30 after a battle with brain cancer. Known for his shot-blocking and his notorious finger wave taunt, Mutombo — who was only 58 years old — ...

Dikembe Mutombo, the Hall of Fame NBA center who died on Sept. 30 at 58, was in the latter category — though he was not without his own set of awards and impressive statistical achievements.