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At halftime of the Denver Nuggets home opener the team retired 2015 Hall-of-Fame inductee Dikembe Mutombo‘s No. 55. Mutombo played five seasons in Denver after the franchise drafted him fourth overall in 1991.

Mutombo will remembered for his work off the court and on it; as a global ambassador with the NBA and assisting in humanitarian efforts across the globe. But the most memorable moment of his career was when the 7-foot-2 big man clutched the basketball with joy as the eighth seeded Nuggets knocked off the Seattle Supersonics in the first round of the 1994 playoffs.

Watch his jersey get raised to the Pepsi Center rafters below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dN38zxmDP6I&feature=youtu.be