No one in the game was bigger, or better, at getting people to think about others beyond themselves than Dikembe Mutombo.

The National Basketball Association world is mourning the loss of Hall of Dikembe Mutombo, who was announced on Monday, September 30, to have died. The NBA confirmed his passing and remembered him by noting in a statement released by NBA commissioner,

But when Mutombo died of brain cancer on Monday at 58, most who knew him or knew of him paid primary tribute to his humanitarian work, particularly in his native Democratic Republic of the Congo, and his efforts to promote the sport across the globe. He was a towering man of towering achievements.