The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.

I know the president is quick. I have friends who played with him during the campaign; they say he's very good. I told the president that whenever the next pickup game is, I'll get on the plane to Washington - but sometimes they play so early in the morning.

My decision leaving the Nuggets was based on the organization not saying they had the cap room to sign me.

Me as a backup center? Hell no.

After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.

I cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need.

The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.