But Mutombo's iconic move was the finger wag — which he broke out after blocking a shot, his index finger going back and forth as if to say “no, no, no” to shooters who he had just rejected.

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

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The Atlanta Hawks are honoring NBA Hall of Famer Dikembe Mutombo, who died earlier this year on Monday, Nov. 25 at State Farm Arena.

Mutombo walked over to the regulation-sized 10-foot hoop, got on his tiptoes and hit the bottom of it with his finger. “Come on, son,” Riley recalls Thompson saying. “Come on upstairs.

Mutombo walked over to the regulation-sized 10-foot hoop, got on his tiptoes and hit the bottom of it with his finger. “Come on, son,” Riley recalls Thompson saying. “Come on upstairs.

Dikembe Mutombo was born on June 25, 1966, in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the country that was known as Zaire until the late 1990s.

“He would just call and say, ‘I’m coming over. You got any food?'” Janet Buckner recalled from Dikembe Mutombo’s early days with the Denver Nuggets.

Dikembe Mutombo, a towering NBA Hall of Famer who was renowned for his defensive dominance and finger-wagging celebrations, has died from brain cancer, the NBA said in a statement on Monday.

Dikembe Mutombo played defense at a level and with a flair that few others in basketball history ever possessed, all among the many reasons why he's immortalized in the Hall of Fame.