{"id":40873,"date":"2015-09-01T22:44:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T02:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40873"},"modified":"2020-07-16T22:44:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T02:44:27","slug":"happy-dikembe-mutombo-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40873","title":{"rendered":"Happy Dikembe Mutombo Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"border-image alignnone wp-image-40874 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dikembe-e1439942137444.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"490\" height=\"236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dikembe-e1439942137444.jpg 490w, https:\/\/totfc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/dikembe-e1439942137444-300x144.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>EDIT<\/strong>: The link right below, stated that Dikembe Mutombo Day was\u00a0<em>scheduled<\/em>\u00a0to be on September 2nd. \u00a0Yet for some reason, it just\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/sports\/basketball\/atlanta-hawks-to-retire-dikembe-mutombos-no-55\/nnWMn\/\">spontaneously happened on the 1st<\/a>. \u00a0So, I reconfigured some posts around to properly commemorate Mr. Not In My House and his very honorable day.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Yeah that&#8217;s right motherfuckers, this is 100% legit.\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/sports\/basketball\/dikembo-mutombo-day-announced\/nnLpf\/\">At least it is, here in Atlanta<\/a>.\u00a0 Although if it were up to me, it would be something a little bit more nationally recognized.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">There&#8217;s no secret that I&#8217;ve always been a huge Dikembe Mutombo fan.\u00a0 And it goes beyond just his basketball career, although I&#8217;ve always been a huge fan of how he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=h8-R3bBmhqU\">blocked a million shots<\/a>\u00a0throughout his career, most of them followed up with the notorious finger wag and NONONO, the time he had the cojones to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8E-_I5751LE\">basically tell Michael Jordan to his face that he couldn&#8217;t be dunked on<\/a>\u00a0(although he was promptly proven wrong), he&#8217;s a pretty interesting human being as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">From his college exploits to where he allegedly waltzed into Georgetown bars and bellowed inquiries about &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/lookit\/2015\/3\/26\/8297181\/alonzo-mourning-who-wants-to-sex-mutombo-story\">who wants to sex Mutombo<\/a>&#8221; in broken English, the fact that he speaks like fifty different languages, and is basically the biggest long-standing ambassador between the NBA and African culture, holding eternally true to his own roots, building hospitals and shit with his own resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">Also,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RtXtOuxBuvQ\">his GEICO commercial<\/a>\u00a0is pretty immortal, in this history of advertising.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Lora; font-size: 12pt;\">I&#8217;m just glad to see that Atlanta clearly recognized Dikembe Mutombo as someone worthy of having his own day, despite the fact that only\u00a0<em>a quarter\u00a0<\/em>of his career was spent with the Hawks, and hopefully the rest of the world will get on the ball and do the same, because god damn it, Dikembe Mutombo rules.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDIT: The link right below, stated that Dikembe Mutombo Day was\u00a0scheduled\u00a0to be on September 2nd. \u00a0Yet for some reason, it just\u00a0spontaneously happened on the 1st. \u00a0So, I reconfigured some posts around to properly commemorate Mr. Not In My House and his very honorable day. Yeah that&#8217;s right motherfuckers, this is 100% legit.\u00a0\u00a0At least it is, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=40873\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Happy Dikembe Mutombo Day!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[59,15],"class_list":["post-40873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-basketball","tag-og"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40873"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40875,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40873\/revisions\/40875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}