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By Nick Lucchesi Wed., Nov. 10 2010 at 12:28 PM

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And we've got a winner! I've contacted the winner with the details (so check your e-mail to see if you won!) Thanks for playing, and thanks for reading Latest Word.

Dikembe is your gateway to free tickets.

What are you doing Thursday night? You could be watching Carmelo Anthony and the Nuggets take on the NBA's highest-paid player, Kobe Bryant, his LA Laker mates and the coach who oversaw the greatest dynasty in sports history, Phil Jackson, at the Pepsi Center.

Yes, we have a pair of tickets to give away, if you're feeling nostalgic. Find how you can win them below:

You and a guest can plant your rear in seats 15 and 16 in row 4 of section 218 of the Pepsi Center for the 8:30 p.m. match-up for free (these tickets are valued at $110 each). And only enter if you can actually go. If you try to scalp these tickets, we'll know.

To win, all you have to do is leave a brief comment telling us why you you should go and include the words "Dikembe Mutombo."

Example: "Dikembe Mutombo was my Halloween costume from 1992 to 1994 and again in 2003." Or "I will name my first-born child (son or daughter) Dikembe Mutombo."

Make sure you leave a valid e-mail address so we can contact you if you're the winner. The contest ends at noon on Thursday. And to inspire you, here's a look at Mount Mutombo.

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Dikembe Mutombo would insist that I go to the game, because the games are the only thing that makes me and my son smile after 4 years of spine surgerys . I never thought that i would enjoy anything again nor smile, but the great actin on the court has given me my light back. Dikembe Mutombo gives to improve the health, and quality of life for the people and would insist that I go to the game for my soul, health, and to improve my quality of my life and that of my son.
So?, who won?
Back to back is a bad ass fact. A fact that remains, in tact. 9-0 tonight after sending the under-zealous, pathetically bemused Nuggets fans home crying.
Dikembe Mutombo should be the GM for the Broncos, if not for anyhthing, just to see Josh hide his face under the hoodie when he gets the dreaded Finger Wave. No No No says Dikembe Mutombo!!
It was like this: you were happy, then you were sad; some days bluebells & aspens, others all snow and no tread, but endlessly season-pass glad that you lived in the land of mile high madness, Dikembe Mutombo, joy overhead.
If 7' 2" Dikembe Mutombo were still playing he would lead the nuggets to victory tonight by shutting down Pau Gasol and Kobe; as he was one of the most prolific shot blockers in the history of the sport! I would love to attend the game tonight to spectate the sport i'm most passionate about. Nothing would be greater to see all the overzealous, pathetically bemused lakers fans facial expressions as the nuggets prevail victorious. Go back to LA Californians this is Colorado.
I should go to the game tonight because while growing up in Washington state I was always a fan of Dikembe Mutumbo. I had a "Mt. Mutumbo Elevation:5280" poster hanging up in my room and watched the '94 playoffs against Seattle while rooting for the Nuggets much to the annoyance of my Sonics supporting friends! Haven't looked back since!
I deserve to go because I've always wanted to take my younger brother to a game but never had the money. Dikembe mutombo was an awesome nuggets player
My 20 year old sister thinks Kenyon Martin is hot. We looked up Dikembe Mutombo to see if he is hot....not so much, plus he is old. She did like all his names - Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo, and wants to add a few to her own now (three just doesn't cut it). Can we have the tickets please?
I would love to someday meet Dikembe Mutombo. Perhaps I will take him to the game!
Dikembe Is Killing Every Ballplayer's Ego. Mutombo's Utter Terrorizing Obliterates Movement By Opponents. DIKEMBE MUTOMBO!
Dear Santa: I'd like some Dikembe Mutombo in my Christmas stocking this year. Thank youuu!!
In middle school Dikembe Mutombo was one of my favorite curse words on and off the court.
Like Dikembe Mutombo, I am fluent in 9 languages. Mine are English, French, German, Portuguese, and 5 Mexican dialects.
Dikembo Mutombo!!!!!! Did I win???? Did I win???? Dikembe rocked, All Star as a rookie, and the memorable image of him lovin on that ball when we stunned Seattle and made history!!!!
Dikembe Mutombo!!!!!!! Do I win!!!! Do I win!!!! Ha, I got to meet this guy as a kid, damn, never knew someone could be so tall, thought he was not human.
I'm in the kitchen with Dikembe Mutombo, we're cookin' up gumbo and watchin' Columbo. But really, my place is at tomorrow night's game, where I'll be pourin' some shame on Kobe and Phil's name.
Don't think about waving your finger at me Dikembe Mutumbo style... Just gimme the tickets and I won't have hurt nobody.
Alright, thanks Dikembe! I was hoping you would enter our contest! Everybody else, great answers so far. Contest ends tomorrow. -N
Dikembe Mutombo here. I can heckle Kobe in nine different languages. Seriously. The dude is named after a cut of beef. And his middle name is Bean. What the hell? And in the Yor�anguage "bryant" means "dung". I guess that makes him a beef and bean shit. In three languages no less, Japanese, English and Yor�
I once stopped short in front of Dikembe Mutombo coming out of a movie theater. He put his hand on the top of my head and his fingers reached nearly to my mouth, while his thumb hit the back of my neck. I love the Nuggets and stuck by them through the leanest years. I had breakfast with Chauncey Billups and the Pope yesterday. Two of these stories are true.
Dikembe Mutombo is no dumbo, I was a Lakers fan so I guess that I'm dunzo. Don't hate me too bad it really makes sad, pissed off my Cali friends and was exiled by my Dad. Friendless and hated on the west coast, send me to the Nuggets game so we can win and boast! Go Nuggets!!!
I remember when i was a little kid and my dad used to take me to the barber shop and I used to freak out every time we saw Dikembe Mutombo getting a hair cut. I thought he was the coolest. I had all of his basketball cards and posters... I felt like I barely came up to his kneecap when I was a youngin'.
Before Melo got here, the last great Nuggets game was when Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo led the #8-seed Nuggets to an upset win in the playoffs over the #1-seed SuperSonics... coached by George Karl... 98-94 in overtime back in 1994.
Dikembe Mutumbo is my +1 to the game
I once dated a woman named Dikembe Mutombo, a very homly woman whom I have since broken up with as she was too manly. I should go to the game because I have never been to a basketball game and I would love to see the Lakers get smashed by some nuggets
"You always think the grass is going to be greener on the other side because it seems like it's not raining here right now. But, by the time you walk to the other side, it might not be green. You might be going to the same dry season that you were experiencing." -- Dikembe Mutombo's Advice to Carmelo Anthony
If you let me go to the game, I'll suck your Dikembe and maybe even let you lick my Mutumbo.
I remember seeing Dikembe Mutumbo at a club and I felt like it took me five hours to look up he was soo tall. I felt tiny and I was dancing on a box!
i pretend i'm dikembe mutombo when i play with my balls.
I'm ready to MUTOOOOM-BOOOOOO with Dikembe at the Nuggets vs Lakers game.
Dikembe Mutombo left the Nuggets high and dry in 96 for the Hawks but he has been the best DEFENSIVE player the Nuggets have ever had.
I heard the seats are right behind Dikembe Mutumbo, so unless you are 7 feet tall you won't be able to see anything.
Because I've always followed Dikembe's rules for life... Single team? Dunk on him. Double team? Dunk on both of them. Triple Team? Dunk on all of them. Landlord asking for money? Dunk on him.
No one loves the Nuggets more than me and Dikembe Mutumbo.
Once while sailing around the world, he found a short cut... He has never owned a credit card, his word is good enough... Sharks have a week dedicated to him... He has been known to slam a revolving door... He is: Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo. (The Most Interesting Man in the World) -Dos Equis
I should go because I want to see Chris "Birdman" Andersen do his best Dikembe Mutombo impression.
The only thing that me and Dikembe Mutumbo have ever had in common? No, not our perfect English diction. No, not our ability to fit in consumer airline seats. No, not rate at which we perspire. It's simple, the heart pumps POWDER BLUE, GOLD, WHITE, and NAVY. I'll do ya proud I promise. G
Dikembe Mutomo is my baby's daddy he shoulda given me tickets anyway!
I should go because I really like stadium beer and maintain the hope that someday Kobe will be sodomized against his will. I bet Dikembe Mutombo always wanted to drive a Pontiac Fiero but never could because he's too big and this still makes him sad. I bet he wears a ton of Drakkar Noir. I bet watching him swim is a real treat. I bet his elbows can still cut through steel and bone. I've never pictured Dikembe Mutumbo nude . . . but now you have.
Because it is the circle of life for me.. When I was dating my husband we saw Michael Jordan play and now he is divorcing me and I will have to move on. So no worries, Dikembe Mutobo, or is that akuna matada???
Because I climb the Pepsi center stairs two-at-a-time in anticipation, and because I cheer so loud I get persperation; Because my week is so hectic, I could use a good show and this CO native's been there through the highs and the lows; Because I'd like to heckle to Gasol and Kobe... and have them look and say, no way - from that hottie? Because no one would like them to win more than Karl and me and I'd like to beat them so badly they just try to flee! Because no one would believe this young lady would dance in the crowd- I'd dance to make Dikembe Mutombo oh-so-proud!
There's a Dikembe Mutombo in all of us.
I asked my wife if I could go to the Nuggets game on Thursday night and she said: "Dikembe Motumbo". I said, "huh?" And then she swallowed the peanut-butter cracker and said; "If I can go, you can go."
I can has Dikembe Mutombo?
Sneakers on the court, The rules are clear - don't distort. Searching, playing, running: SHOT, Slow motion, my heart is in a knot. The Nuggets are sure to astound. Seven foot two, two hundred-sixty pounds, Dikembe Mutombo is surely amazing; Shot block and execute, the court is blazing. Want to see the Nuggets flatten the Lakers? It would sure be sweet: Any other takers? ME PLEASE!!!
I would starve to death like the kids that Dikembe Mutombo is from
When I was younger, I didn't know who or what Dikemebe Mutombo was but I though it sounded DELICIOUS.
Dikembe Mutombo is a disease and i'm infected!
I heard that if you record yourself in front of a mirror at night 3 times saying "Dikembe Mutombo" and then play it backwards it will reveal.....the secret to getting Free Nugg. Tix
I used to have a poster of Dikembe Mutombo when I was a kid and it had all of his 7 names on there: Dikembe Mutombo Mplando Jean Jaque Wamutombo. I will always remember those names so I deserve to go see the Nuggets beat the Lakers!
I am from Seattle and do not utter the words Dikembe Mutombo aloud out of fear something terrible will happen to my Seattle SuperSonics. My dad told me that the team is fine - living on a nice farm in Oklahoma with our family dog Sonic I also haven't seen in years...
When I was in Disney World, I wish I would have seen Dikembe Mutombo instead of Shaq and his throng of bodyguards.
Dikembe Mutombo Mpolondo Mukamba Jean-Jacques Wamutombo is the best Denver Nuggets big man of all-time!!!
I grew up in Denver; every year we would stand next to a poster of Dikembe Mutombo to see how much we had grown. The only one who came close was the polar bear at the Denver Zoo. Yes I just said Dikembe Mutumbo is bigger than a polar bear. Also, when I was younger and we would go to McNichol's to see the Nuggets, Dikembe Mutumbo was the only player we could see from the nosebleed section. Would be nice to see a game closer to the floor...
I would so love to see the Nuggets kick sum Lakers bootie...If I win I just might take Dikembe Mutombo...or my girlfriend!! ;-)
In response to his own question, "Who want to sex Mutombo?" For free Nuggets tickets, I'd contemplate sexing Dikembe Mutombo.
I'd like to see the Laker streak end vs. the Nuggets and I hope not to see Dikembe "the Trader" Mutombo at the game.
I want Dikembe Mutombo to be my Baby Daddy!!!!!!
Back in Dikembe Mutombo rookie year he wanted to date one of the customer service representatives that worked for me. He would sit in our lobby and wait for her day after day. He was a very nice and determined young man. After a week he finally gave up and went on his way. I had to go back to only seeing him on the court.
I have a fever!!!!...and the only cure is Dikembe Mutombo!!!!
Dikembe Mutombo started as a Rocket. Because he is 7 ft 2 I won't knock it. Eventually said "Fuccet"-and became a Nugget... Because that was a choice he could live wit.
I should go because Dikembe Mutombo and I were actors in a western movie. Well, we thought it was a movie but soon found out we were actually saving the town from bandits! Steve Martin was there too I think...
dikembe mutombo was a force to be reckoned with!
I remember when Dikembe Akhdiofh awhpiohkl aopuklafs poulkn abpokh hpuo Mutumbo got drafted...and how he went around to DPS schools encouraging kids to stay in school...learn 5 languages like himself...and explained that he had 8 names (I only know...Dikembe...and Mutumbo.) If he was still around...it'd be great to hear him give Kobe a tounge lashing in each of those languages he knows...in fact, that's probably why I should take these tickets. So I can at least get 2 languages covered since he's not here...booyaka (that might be one of Dikembes other names...???)
I have never seen Dikembe Mutombo play ball, in fact, I have never seen a professional basketball game! I sure would like to though!!
When I go out, the ultimate sign of a good night is if I bust out the Dikembe Mutumbo finger wag (usually at other guys trying to pick up my girl).
One of the great Denver sports moments of all time................ NBA 1st round western diviion playoffs 1994. Big Mac. Dikembe Mutumbo on his back below the Denver basket, huge grin, holding the basketball, at the horn, the night the 8 beat the 1 in 5 games. Irreplaceable.
I have never been to a real basketball game. I have alway surrendered my tickets to my 2 sons. (the youngest thinks he plays like Dikembe Mutombo)
I only wish Dikembe Mutombo was still playing for the Nuggets maybe Indy wouldnt have made 20 of 21 shots in the game last night. And i know Dikembe Mutombo would stomp on them Lakers tomorrow! Go Nuggets! We still have the greatest team EVER!
The American Constitution Party, determined to build on this year's momentum, has announced its gubernatorial candidate for 2014: Dikembe Mutombo! Send me to the game and I will plaster everything that doesn't move with "Dikembe 2014: Reach Higher!"
I need those tickets for my girl go hard like Dikembe Mutombo!
I have never seen a real basketball game! I have always surrendered my tickets to my 2 sons. (the youngest thinks he plays like Dikembe Mutombo)
I remember working at Bennigan's resturant here in Denver watching Dikembe Mutombo hug that ball after the Nuggets beat George Karl's SuperSonics to advance in the playoffs. The place was going crazy.
Dikembe Mutombo wants me to go so bad so that I can see his Denver Nuggets beat my home state's Lakers. I've been converted to a Nuggets fan and would love to see this match up!!!
Dikembe Mutombo assisted in beefing me up during high school with his irresistible Mutombo Deal at McDs. A triple cheeseburger and a teenage metabolism (Mutombolism?) for the win!
I hope we Dikembe Mutombo the hell outta the Lakers! Beat LA! Beat LA! Wave the finger! Beat LA!
Dikembe Mutombo is one bad-ass dude! I would like to attend the game so I can ask Mr Kobe Bryant how the hell do you get away with cheating on your wife up in Eagle, Colorado and she still lets you come to Colorado at all!
I should get the tickets because I just spent the last bit of time on wikipedia figuring out who Dikembe Mutombo is. Thanks for inspiring me to learn. Please give me the tickets!
Dikembe Mutombo was such a great assest as a rookie and throughtout his career with the Nuggets and I would love to see the Denver Nuggets beat the LA Lakers to end their winning streak on Thursday!!
Bet whoever bought Dikembe Mutombo's house here in CO has to use a stepladder to use the sink. I'd like some awesome seats for the game that don't involve any use of a stepladder.
Dikembe Mutombo would help the Nuggets level the Lakers...and be a blast to watch the game with
What would Dikembe Mutombo do, if he were here right now.......he'd probably kick an ass or two that's what Dikembe Mutombo'd do. And I need to see the Nuggets beat the bandwagon team of the century at least once in my life.
Dikembe Mutombo is not the reason the Broncos suck this year, and I would really like to see the coach who oversees the greatest dynasty in sports history.