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Men Over 35 Without Kids
https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2019/mens-fertility.html About 1% of white, Asian and Hispanic men ages 15 to 19 are fathers, compared with about 3% of black men of the same age. Among men ages 20 to 29, 21.2% of white men, 24.9% of black men, 12.4% of Asian men, and 29.4% of...
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LeBron James, Jayson Tatum, Anthony Edwards Attend Netflix ‘Starting 5’ Premiere
LeBron James, Jayson Tatum, Anthony Edwards, Jimmy Butler, and Domantas Sabonis attend the premiere of Netflix's 'Starting 5' series.
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Dikembe Mutombo - Wikipedia
Humanitarian work
Mutombo speaks to the Senegalese population about the importance of sleeping under mosquito netsA well-known humanitarian,[109] Mutombo started the Dikembe Mutombo Foundation to improve living conditions in his native Democratic Republic of Congo in 1997. His efforts earned him the NBA's J. Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award in 2001 and 2009. For his feats, Sporting News named him as one of the "Good Guys in Sports" in 1999 and 2000,[110] and in 1999, he was elected as one of 20 winners of the President's Service Awards, the nation's highest honor for volunteer service.[110] In 2004, he participated in the Basketball Without Borders NBA program, where NBA stars like Shawn Bradley, Malik Rose and DeSagana Diop toured Africa to spread the word about basketball and to improve the infrastructure.[110] He paid for uniforms and expenses for the Zaire women's basketball team during the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta.[110] Mutombo was a spokesman for the international relief agency, CARE and is the first youth emissary for the United Nations Development Program.[85]
Mutombo was a longtime supporter of Special Olympics and a member of the Special Olympics International Board of Directors, as well as a Global Ambassador.[111] He has been a pioneer of Unified Sports, which brings together people with and without intellectual disabilities. He also played in the Unity Cup in South Africa before the 2010 World Cup Quarterfinal, along with South African President Jacob Zuma and Special Olympics athletes from around the world.[112] Mutombo joined his second Unity Cup team in 2012.[113]
In honor of his humanitarianism, Mutombo was invited to President George W. Bush's 2007 State of the Union Address and was referred to as a "son of the Congo" by the President in his speech.[114] Mutombo later said, "My heart was full of joy. I didn't know the President was going to say such great remarks."[115]
On April 13, 2011, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health gave Mutombo the Goodermote Humanitarian Award "for his efforts to reduce polio globally as well as his work improving the health of neglected and underserved populations in the Democratic Republic of Congo."[116] Michael J. Klag, dean of the Bloomberg School of Public Health, said "Mr. Mutombo is a winner in many ways—on the court and as a humanitarian. His work has improved the health of the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital and Research Center is a model for the region. Likewise, Mr. Mutombo has been instrumental in the fight against polio by bolstering vaccination efforts and bringing treatment to victims of the disease."[116]
In 2020, the Mutombo Foundation began construction of a modern pre-K through 6th-grade school in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Named for his father, who died in 2003, the Samuel Mutombo Institute of Science & Entrepreneurship is located outside the city of Mbuji-Mayi.[117][118]
Mutombo was awarded an honorary doctorate by Georgetown University in 2010.[119] He also received an honorary doctorate from Haverford College in May 2011.[120] In November 2015, the NCAA announced Mutombo as a recipient of its Silver Anniversary Awards for 2016. The announcement cited both his basketball career and extensive humanitarian work.[121]
Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital
In 1997, the Mutombo Foundation began plans to open a $29 million, 300-bed hospital on the outskirts of his hometown, the Congolese capital of Kinshasa. Ground was broken in 2001, but construction didn't start until 2004, as Mutombo had trouble getting donations early on although he personally donated $3.5 million toward the hospital's construction.[85] Initially Mutombo had some other difficulties, almost losing the land to the government because it was not being used and having to pay refugees who had begun farming the land to leave. He also struggled to reassure some that he did not have any ulterior or political motives for the project.[85] The project has been on the whole very well received at all social and economic levels in Kinshasa.[85]On August 14, 2006, Mutombo donated $15 million to the completion of the hospital for its ceremonial opening on September 2, 2006. It was by then named Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital, for his late mother, who died of a stroke in 1997.[122] When it opened in 2007, the $29 million facility became the first modern medical facility to be built in that area in nearly 40 years.[123] His hospital is on a 12-acre (49,000 m2) site on the outskirts of Kinshasa in Masina, where about a quarter of the city's 7.5 million residents live in poverty. It is minutes from Kinshasa's airport and near a bustling open-air market.
National Constitution Center
Mutombo serves on the board of trustees of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia, which is a museum dedicated to the U.S. Constitution.[124]SportsUnited
In 2011, Mutombo also traveled to South Sudan as a SportsUnited sports envoy for the U.S. Department of State. In this capacity, he worked with Sam Perkins to lead a series of basketball clinics and team-building exercises with 50 youths and 36 coaches. This helped contribute to the State Department's mission to remove barriers and create a world in which individuals with disabilities enjoy dignity and full inclusion in society.[125]Ask The Doctor
In April 2020, Mutombo joined Ask The Doctor as their chief global officer. Ask The Doctor is a platform that connects people from all over the world to top doctors and healthcare professionals.[126]Economic development and gender parity
In 2021, he created his eponymous coffee company, initially focused on the Congo, to foster women growers' participation in international commerce.[118]
Its that time of the year again...
He really shouldn't talk or do interviews talking about the playing of basketball.
Wemby betta stay far away from him so that his bitchass ways don't run off on him!
The Karl-Anthony Towns Trade Could Haunt the Knicks and Wolves
So much for the Nova Knicks. New York is now going all in on a different kind of KAT. But will the surprise blockbuster backfire for both contenders?
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Its that time of the year again...
Last year for him to try to get a BAG in the off season....No excuses and he is the only star on that team
NBA Star Spencer Dinwiddie’s SoCal Home Just Listed for $7.7 Million
The Dallas Mavericks guard paid $6.9 million for the modern Craftsman-style home in suburban L.A. in spring 2022. It's not listed for $7.7 million.
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Nope. He's normal this year lol
'Who's Karl?:' Knicks dance around Towns trade
The Knicks danced around the team's not-yet-official acquisition of Karl Anthony-Towns but acknowledged their enthusiasm at having the star big join the roster.
He doesn't have much of an argument when he takes time off when he doesn't feel like playing and mails in games until the playoffsGood boy.
Def him if he never signed an NBA contract.
Cant have it both ways man... YOU people glorify, and overhype the clown and put him above LeBron in franchise pantheon.. Now when its time to pay him you wanna say how he mails it in. Horrible fanbase. Horrible organization. Get some got dam talent around him and stop expecting his ole ass to carry a team like hes prime DWade and maybe he wont wear down so fast in season.