{"id":14915,"date":"2024-10-02T04:01:47","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T03:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/02\/dikembe-mutombo-nba-hall-of-famer-and-four-time-defensive-player-of-the-year-dies-aged-58-nba-news-sky-sports\/"},"modified":"2024-10-02T04:01:47","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T03:01:47","slug":"dikembe-mutombo-nba-hall-of-famer-and-four-time-defensive-player-of-the-year-dies-aged-58-nba-news-sky-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/02\/dikembe-mutombo-nba-hall-of-famer-and-four-time-defensive-player-of-the-year-dies-aged-58-nba-news-sky-sports\/","title":{"rendered":"Dikembe Mutombo: NBA Hall of Famer and four-time defensive player of the year dies aged 58 | NBA News | Sky Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dikembe Mutombo played for Denver, Atlanta, Houston, Philadelphia, New York and the then-New Jersey Nets during his NBA career; he started undergoing treatment for a brain tumour two years ago; Mutombo passed away aged 58 surrounded by his family&#8221;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/nba\/news\/36226\/13225511\/dikembe-mutombo-nba-hall-of-famer-and-four-time-defensive-player-of-the-year-dies-aged-58\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dikembe Mutombo played for Denver, Atlanta, Houston, Philadelphia, New York and the then-New Jersey Nets during his NBA career; he started undergoing treatment for a brain tumour two years ago; Mutombo passed away aged 58 surrounded by his family&#8221;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}