Comment on Dikembe Mutombo always had dreams beyond basketball. His second family in Denver heard them all.

Kyle Freeland says he’s seen the light. “I know that last year I did have that quote where I said that it seemed like the light was very far away,” the veteran lefty said. “And I know we had another 100-loss season, but I’m very optimistic.” Wait, what? “I like the moves (general manager) Bill Schmidt has made,” Freeland continued.

The call came in April but the impact, like a thunder clap from miles over the horizon, didn’t hit Chauncey Billups until much, much later. Like July later. Like July in Cleveland later. Like July in Cleveland while signing autographs later. “I had to do this sports memorabilia show,” Billups, the Denver native and Mile High City basketball icon told The Denver Post recently when asked about his scheduled induction into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame next weekend.

Before he was “Mount Mutombo” to Denver, Dikembe was one Denver-area family’s dear friend who could eat a mountain of macaroni and drink a lake of orange juice. They met over dinner in 1991, through a mutual acquaintance. Dikembe Mutombo was a 7-foot-2 Congolese basketball player who’d arrived in the United States seeking a medical degree and left Georgetown as the No.

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