when me and some of my guys ended up playing pick-up ball with Ilo Mutombo...Dikembe's older brother.

My memory of this is fading, as I was 18 at the time...but here it goes:
Freshman year in college. We go to dinner, like any other day and after chilling for a minute...head over to the rec center to get in some run.

There are a couple of courts going at once. One is two games playing half-court and the other is full-court. I throw my name on the list and we're one game down for the full-court joint. I see this guy who I had never seen there before, but that happens. The squad he's on is pushing after a missed shot and he's trailing. He yells "Here I come!!" I look at my boy and kind of laugh and say...dude sounds like Mutombo. A guy who was already there turns and says "that's because it is". We are looking at him like, aight man. So we proceed to watch the game and the dude is DEVASTATING! He's getting putbacks, catching oops, you name it. They dust off the team they were playing and the next team...then we're up. On the court with him....he was EVEN better. Dude is erasing any layup on the defensive end. Offensively, he's unguardable....just an array of moves. At one point, he legit went baseline and did the Tom Chambers dunk from Lakers vs. Celtics. We got the story after the fact and were amazed to hear that he was TWENTY-SIX years old at that time and that he played ball for Southern Indiana...which sort of explained why he was hooping at the Southeast Missouri State Rec center on a random weekday. Turns out he was a super sweet guy and friends with quite a few non-sports-related famous people. The world is so random.

...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft