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Dikembe Mutombo

Dikembe Mutombo stats, teams and career impact

#240 all-timeCareer averages · 9.8 PPG · 10.3 RPG · 1.0 APGPeak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded

Position: Center
Final NBA team: Houston Rockets
Height / weight: 7 ft 2 in (218 cm) · 245 lb (111 kg)
Born: June 25, 1966
Died: September 30, 2024 (58 yrs old)
College: Georgetown
NBA seasons: 18 seasons · 1991–92 to 2008–09

Career or season view

Career summaryDikembe Mutombo was a center who played 18 NBA seasons, from 1991–92 through 2008–09.

Career PPG: 9.8
Career RPG: 10.3
Career APG: 1.0; #23 in 1999–00; #240 all-time

Peak-weighted regular-season model · playoffs, awards, and championships excluded

Career overview

Why Dikembe Mutombo ranks #240 all time

Dikembe Mutombo ranks #240 all time. Across his three best seasons, his average league finish was #26.7. His full-career value ranks #110, so longevity is a major reason he lands this high.

Peak#23 in 1999–00

Best league finish

Sustained excellence17 ranked seasons

450+ minutes required per season

Career breadth18 seasons

1,196 games · Career Value Rank #110

NBA honors8× All-Star · 3× All-NBA · 6× All-Defense · 4× DPOYContext only; honors are not model inputs.

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Full player detailsTeam history, career shooting and sources

Full team history

Teams: Denver Nuggets, Atlanta Hawks, Philadelphia 76ers, New Jersey Nets, New York Knicks, and Houston Rockets
Greatest Hawks →Greatest Nuggets →Greatest Rockets →Greatest Nets →Greatest Knicks →Greatest 76ers →

Career shooting

NBA regular season

Field goal: 51.8%FG%
Three-point: 0.0%3P%
Free throw: 68.4%FT%

1,196 career games · 36,791 minutes

Sources and updateConventional stats and measurements: Basketball Reference, accessed Sep 13, 2026. hussEyquation ranking data through 2025–26. Life dates: Wikidata; conflicting dates checked against Basketball Reference, accessed Sep 17, 2026.

Traditional box score

Dikembe Mutombo stats by season

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2008–09	1.8	3.7	0.0	-6.73	HOU	9	2	10.7	38.5%	—	66.7%	—	-8.5
2007–08	3.0	5.1	0.1	+1.59	HOU	39	25	15.9	53.8%	—	71.1%	#63	41.8
2006–07	3.1	6.5	0.2	+1.16	HOU	75	33	17.2	55.6%	—	69.0%	#78	77.0
2005–06	2.6	4.8	0.1	+0.09	HOU	64	23	14.9	52.6%	—	75.8%	#112	36.7
2004–05	4.0	5.3	0.1	+1.01	HOU	80	2	15.2	49.8%	—	74.1%	#87	67.4
2003–04	5.6	6.7	0.4	+0.03	NYK	65	56	23.0	47.8%	—	68.1%	#125	56.7
2002–03	5.8	6.4	0.8	-2.55	NJN	24	16	21.4	37.4%	—	72.7%	#248	-5.4
2001–02	11.5	10.8	1.0	+0.91	PHI	80	80	36.3	50.1%	—	76.4%	#80	156.4
2000–01	10.0	13.5	1.0	+1.81	ATL/PHI	75	75	34.5	48.4%	—	72.5%	#53	187.9
1999–00	11.5	14.1	1.3	+3.23	ATL	82	82	36.4	56.2%	—	70.8%	#23	297.9
1998–99	10.8	12.2	1.1	+3.11	ATL	50	50	36.6	51.2%	—	68.4%	#32	166.2
1997–98	13.4	11.4	1.0	+2.35	ATL	82	82	35.6	53.7%	—	67.0%	#49	231.9
1996–97	13.3	11.6	1.4	+2.40	ATL	80	80	37.2	52.7%	—	70.5%	#46	236.8
1995–96	11.0	11.8	1.5	+2.84	DEN	74	74	36.7	49.9%	0.0%	69.5%	#37	252.4
1994–95	11.5	12.5	1.4	+1.75	DEN	82	82	37.8	55.6%	—	65.4%	#56	221.8
1993–94	12.0	11.8	1.5	+3.02	DEN	82	82	34.8	56.9%	0.0%	58.3%	#25	286.7
1992–93	13.8	13.0	1.8	+1.99	DEN	82	82	36.9	51.0%	—	68.1%	#41	251.5
1991–92	16.6	12.3	2.2	+0.85	DEN	71	71	38.3	49.3%	—	64.2%	#80	158.9
Career	9.8	10.3	1.0	—	ATL/DEN/HOU/NJN/NYK/PHI	1196	—	30.8	51.8%	0.0%	68.4%	—	—

Source: Basketball Reference regular-season totals, accessed Sep 13, 2026.

Film evidence

Dikembe Mutombo highlights

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Signature-skill retrospective

Dikembe Mutombo's top 10 career blocks

A focused collection of blocks makes Mutombo's timing, reach and rim deterrence visible beyond the raw totals and four Defensive Player awards.

What these measures mean

Era-centered box impact: Estimated points per 100 possessions above that season's league average.
Impact Rate Rank: The player's place among qualified players in one season.
Value contribution / Season Value: Completed seasons use a fixed-baseline contribution to Career Value. The live season instead uses Season Value, combining that season's impact with workload.
Career Impact Rank: An all-time rank weighted toward the player's best three, five, and ten seasons.

Career Impact Rank#240

31.3 composite · lower is better

Best 5#272

31.6 average league finish

Career Value Rank#110

2,714 total value

Career standing

How Dikembe Mutombo ranks all time

These are league placements, not raw scores. Each season is judged against that season's qualified player pool.

Number-one seasons0

Best in the league

Top-five seasons0

Elite finishes

Top-ten seasons0

Upper-tier finishes

Top-10 Impact Margin0.0

Tie-breaker across top-ten seasons

Career Composite Score31.3

Best 3, Best 5, and Best 10 average league finishes receive 50%, 30%, and 20% window weights. Missing seasons receive a replacement finish just below the player's typical qualified field. Lower is better.

Best 3 effective weight: 74%
Missing-season finish: 322.0
Qualified seasons: 17
All-time rank: #240

Strongest seasons

Every season

Dikembe Mutombo advanced stats by season

Era-centered box impact supports comparisons through time. Impact Rate and its rank compare players only within that season.

More advanced statsAge, minutes, impact, rank, value and data coverage


2008–09Historical Defense Estimate	HOU	42	9	96	-6.73	—	—	-8.5	—	Limited
2007–08Historical Defense Estimate	HOU	41	39	619	+1.59	81.3	#63	41.8	49th	Standard
2006–07Historical Defense Estimate	HOU	40	75	1,289	+1.16	76.9	#78	77.0	65th	Broad
2005–06Historical Defense Estimate	HOU	39	64	955	+0.09	66.2	#112	36.7	53rd	Standard
2004–05Historical Defense Estimate	HOU	38	80	1,212	+1.01	74.9	#87	67.4	63rd	Broad
2003–04Historical Defense Estimate	NYK	37	65	1,494	+0.03	62.5	#125	56.7	62nd	Broad
2002–03Historical Defense Estimate	NJN	36	24	514	-2.55	22.3	#248	-5.4	27th	Standard
2001–02Historical Defense Estimate	PHI	35	80	2,907	+0.91	75.5	#80	156.4	83rd	Broad
2000–01Historical Defense Estimate	ATL/PHI	34	75	2,591	+1.81	84.1	#53	187.9	85th	Broad
1999–00Historical Defense Estimate	ATL	33	82	2,984	+3.23	93.1	#23	297.9	94th	Broad
1998–99Historical Defense Estimate	ATL	32	50	1,829	+3.11	88.8	#32	166.2	92nd	Broad
1997–98Historical Defense Estimate	ATL	31	82	2,917	+2.35	84.9	#49	231.9	91st	Broad
1996–97Historical Defense Estimate	ATL	30	80	2,973	+2.40	85.8	#46	236.8	90th	Broad
1995–96Historical Defense Estimate	DEN	29	74	2,713	+2.84	88.9	#37	252.4	93rd	Broad
1994–95Historical Defense Estimate	DEN	28	82	3,100	+1.75	82.2	#56	221.8	91st	Broad
1993–94Historical Defense Estimate	DEN	27	82	2,853	+3.02	91.8	#25	286.7	93rd	Broad
1992–93Historical Defense Estimate	DEN	26	82	3,029	+1.99	86.4	#41	251.5	89th	Broad
1991–92Historical Defense Estimate	DEN	25	71	2,716	+0.85	72.7	#80	158.9	80th	Broad

Career movement

Dikembe Mutombo's career impact by season

Peak +3.23 in 1999–00 · 18 seasons · 36,791 minutes

The same historical box-score model is used for every season, making the career shape comparable through time. The vertical scale adapts to this player's range and always includes zero.

Era-centered box impactMinutes

Player-specific impact scaleWorkload

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Dikembe MutomboDwight Howard

Era-centered box impactEstimated points per 100 possessions above that season's league average · dashed marker means the player did not play

Dikembe Mutombo and Dwight Howard era-centered impact values by NBA season number
NBA season	Dikembe Mutombo	Dwight Howard
1	0.8	0.4
2	2.0	0.7
3	3.0	2.1
4	1.8	1.9
5	2.8	3.9
6	2.4	3.3
7	2.4	4.2
8	3.1	4.1
9	3.2	0.7
10	1.8	0.8
11	0.9	-0.0
12	-2.6	0.5
13	0.0	2.2
14	1.0	0.5
15	0.1	-4.3
16	1.2	0.2
17	1.6	-2.2
18	-6.7	-0.0

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How to read this page

Impact Rate shows how strong a player was compared with everyone else that season. Season Value adds how much he played; completed player-profile rows instead show each season's fixed-baseline contribution to Career Value. Career Impact Rank rewards a high peak, a long prime, and repeated seasons near the top. Older seasons use clearly labeled estimates where the NBA did not record today's full set of statistics. Read how every ranking works →