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4. Dikembe Mutombo

Georgetown Hoyas basketball star

• Received a USAID scholarship to study medicine
• John Thompson had to convince Dikembe to play basketball
• Dikembe is 6’11” tall
• He did not speak English when he got to campus. He now speaks 9 languages.
• Joined the MBA in 1991
• He never picked up a basketball until his teen years
• His friends call him “Deke”

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2 Comments

  1. Mary

    February 27, 2015 at 5:27 pm

    Arnold was born in Austria. Not Australia. Definitely two different places. :)

  2. tom

    March 11, 2015 at 3:58 pm

    I think you’re giving facts on Rick Moranis, not Jerry Lewis.

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