68. "this is crazy, was he good enough to go pro?" In response to In response to 38
>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.