8/19/2020 10:56 AM PT The second annual NBA Awards were handed out Monday night. Mutombo played in the NBA from 1991 until 2009, recording 11,729 points, 12,359 rebounds, and 3,289 blocks during 18 seasons spent mostly with Denver, Atlanta and Houston Emmy Award-winning entertainer, radio personality, motivational speaker, Get TMZ breaking news sent right to your browser! Wrongfully convicted man who spent nearly 20 years in prison - including the notorious Pelican Bay - after then DA Harris sent his case back to trial says she's an 'opportunist'Amazon pulls 'Joe and the H*e' t-shirts from its site after online backlash over 'sexist, racist attack against Kamala Harris' that suggested she 'used sex to get ahead''HE SPIED ON MY CAMPAIGN!' Not going to school.' On November 28, Unicef USA hosted the 13th annual Unicef Snowflake Ball at Cipriani Wall Street, celebrating Unicef’s lifesaving work for children around the world and honoring L’Oreal’s Carol Hamilton and Special Olympic gold medallist Lucy Meyer. Later in his career, NBA officials would respond to the gesture with a technical foul for unsportsmanlike conduct. Surgeons were coming to the end of the procedure on Monday when his heart stopped briefly Dikembe had been sharing photographs of the child's consultations on Instagram where he asked fans to keep the boy in their prayers One of the patients, eight-year-old Matadi, was being bullied and ostracized so Mutombo (right, holding Matadi's hand) decided to pay for him to be treated in the US where he says care is 'a thousand' times betterWhen Matadi arrived at the airport on Wednesday, Dikembe spoke to him gently in his native tongue and gave him a handful of balloons The boy will be treated by Dr Osborne in Beverly Hills and then Mutombo will fly him back to the CongoThe plan is for Matadi to be flown back to the Congo once the procedure and his after care is complete. Winners received their trophies at a ceremony hosted by After a successful block, he was known for taunting his opponents by waving his index finger, like a parent reproaching a disobedient child. Donald Trump rage-tweets at Barack Obama and Kamala Harris after his predecessor calls him a threat to democracy and incapable of meeting the 'weight of the office' he holdsDonald Trump demands UN implement full 'snapback' of sanctions on Iran vowing it will 'never have a nuclear weapon' after losing bid for arms embargoMelania Trump will give her Republican convention speech from the Rose Garden - after her 2016 address liberally borrowed from Michelle Obama's wordsREVEALED: Hellboy director and another film boss who both dated British 'sex-for- roles actress' Charlotte Kirk are accused of blackmailing NBCUniversal's Ron Meyer into green-lighting movies by threatening to expose his affair with herOperation Warp Speed chief predicts a coronavirus vaccine could be widely available by APRIL and life will be back to normal by the fall of 2021 - as Fauci says a COVID-19 shot will NOT be mandatory in the USHigh blood pressure? Shooting survivor Gabrielle Giffords backs Joe Biden in rare public address saying 'he was there for me' as Democrats highlight gun violence victims at convention I'll take Goodyear tires off the Beast says Donald Trump as he steps up attack on American manufacturer for banning workers from wearing MAGA hats Cincinnati Reds broadcaster Thom Brennaman is forced off air after being caught on hot mic using anti-gay slurKamala Harris officially becomes Democrats' VP candidate and launches assault on Donald Trump for 'chaos, incompetence and lost lives,' saying 'I know a predator when I see one' - and backs Joe Biden saying he will bring 'a better future''Kamala ruined my life, a lot of lives.' The Dikembe Mutombo Foundation is a philanthropic foundation that aims to give the people of Congo access to healthcare. 8/19/2020 8:29 PM PT Child Dikembe Mutombo Brought to U.S. 8-year-old Matadi Sela Petit died Friday night after complications from his delicate surgery at Cedars … 'His mom has to keep him in the bedroom every day because people are talking bad about him,' the basketball star said last week. rare and unpredictable genetic reaction to anesthesia" during surgery ... TMZ has learned.