Mutombo is remembered as the backbone of the last Sixers team to reach the NBA Finals and a great humanitarian.

LeBron James told the story of Mutombo fracturing his face — and even then he couldn't talk about Dikembe without a smile on his face.

No one laughed harder. No one smiled brighter. No one cared more. There was no one else like Dikembe Mutombo. The world he changed and left Monday when he died at age 58 of brain cancer will remember him for the way he lived on the floor and far beyond it.