Dikembe Mutombo will be the recipient of the second ever Sager Strong Award at the 2018 NBA Awards in June, the league announced Tuesday.
Mutombo, who was drafted by the Nuggets with the No. 4 pick in the 1991 draft, has become one of the league's most active humanitarians since he first entered the NBA. His Dikembe Mutombo Foundation, which he founded two decades ago, opened the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital in 2007 as part of its effort to improve the health, education and quality of life for people in Mutombo's native Democratic Republic of the Congo. In 2009, Mutombo was named a global ambassador for the NBA.