Big John seemed to speak Dikembe Mutombo into existence. And thus, it is deflating, an emptying of one’s capacities, to write about Dikembe Mutombo dying from brain cancer, at 58, a professional athlete of significance and a towering human being of far greater substance. Even as the Lakers’ Shaquille O’Neal bludgeoned Mutombo during a five-game pounding of the 76ers in …
