Dikembe Mutombo, a Towering N.B.A. Presence, Dies at 58

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Com­ing late to bas­ket­ball, he nev­er­the­less found star­dom, retir­ing with the sec­ond-most blocked shots in league his­to­ry. He devot­ed much of his life to human­i­tar­i­an causes.