Happier than Dikembe Mutombo blocking a shot.' Fans reminisced on the long-running ad shortly after his death. "I use to watch this Dikembe Mutombo Geico commercial like I never seen it every time ...

Dikembe Mutombo, who passed away at age 58 from brain ... Years after his career was over, Mutombo starred in a Geico commercial, pairing his gifts for blocking shots with his joyful finger ...

“Happier than Dikembe Mutombo blocking a shot,” replies the other, before Mutombo races onto the screen and slaps away the “G” in “Geico” that appears. The commercial is as funny as ...

It’s a tough time to pay the bills with an ad read when you’re talking about the death of NBA legend Dikembe Mutombo. TNT broadcaster Ian Eagle interrupted Stan Van Gundy while he talked about ...

Eagle swooped in and made sure the ad read for “the official automotive partner of the NBA” that obviously needed to happen was completed. Some kind words for Dikembe Mutombo as well as some ...

The newfound attitude from that commercial became the source of the finger wag. In subsequent years, Mutombo began using the gesture even in philanthropic campaigns. During the initial Dikembe ...

He founded the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation with the mission to improve health, education and quality of life in his native ...

Dikembe Mutombo, in the words of NBA commissioner ... from Mutombo’s ability to swat items out of mid-air in a Geico commercial that aired frequently in 2013. Mutombo showed off his fun-loving ...

Or a commercial. Mutombo was not perfect ... Historic, but secondary. Dikembe Mutombo, more than anything, carried himself with a seriousness, a sobriety, that belied his years, just as the ...