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Hall Of Famer Mutombo Inspires Pride, Regret In Kinshasa


Champ Kind
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2015-04-07T090743Z_1_LYNXMPEB360AD_RTROPTP_2_OZASP-UK-BASKETBALL-CONGODEMOCRATIC-MUTOMBO.JPGBy Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - When Dikembe Mutombo's brother first brought him to the Kauka sports club in this working class neighborhood of Kinshasa in the early 1980s to play basketball, the gangly teenager struck few as a superstar in the making. "It was his second or third day here and the team was doing a jumping exercise, like this," laughed Albert Dinabena, the former equipment manager, mimicking a frog hopping across the court.

 

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