Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo was known for finger wagging after blocks but Derrick Coleman says he was the first to do it ...

More NBA News: Trae Young Replaces Giannis Antetokounmpo in 2025 NBA All-Star Game Dikembe Mutombo #55 of Houston Rockets looks up at the clock in the fourth quarter against the Denver Nuggets on ...

Taken by the Nuggets with the fourth pick in the 1991 NBA draft, Mutombo adjusted seamlessly to the pros. By 1994—seven years removed from Georgetown intramurals!—he was the centerpiece of a ...

Jokic is far and away first in Nuggets history with 155 career triple-doubles — which is third in NBA history as a whole. For perspective, Fat Lever is second with 43 triple-doubles, and Dikembe ...

Mutombo enjoyed an 18-year NBA career, spending time with the Nuggets, Hawks, Rockets, Sixers, Knicks and Nets. He was a three-time All-Star and ranks second on the career blocks list with 3,289.

The Nuggets made the playoffs every year of the ... Alex English, Dikembe Mutombo, Allen Iverson and most recently Billups, who was inducted last year. The NBA shares a Hall of Fame with the ...

Mutombo was the NBA's first global ambassador ... making his first All-Star team as a rookie while with the Denver Nuggets in the 1991-92 season. All told, he was an eight-time All-Star, a ...

Denver Nuggets superstar Nikola Jokić turned 30 ... For perspective, Fat Lever is second with 43 triple-doubles, and Dikembe Mutombo is third with eight. Jokic is also first in franchise history ...