Mark Spears, I could ask you about the first time you ever met Dekembe Matumbo, but I'm more interested in the first time you ever heard of the man period.

You've been around basketball circles forever.

What was the first time where somber said,

yo, you heard about this dude, the Hoyes guy?

Well, I know you're a DC background,

so I'm gonna take you back to DC.

You know, I grew up in the Bay Area, San Jose to be exact, but you know all of us in the bay thought Georgetown was the HBCU.

I heard about him with the Hoyas first song play with the Hoyas and it was

amazing to see like those Twin Towers him and Zold playing together.

Anthony, forced the shot inside,

morning has the ball.

Up ahead, McCombow,

got his own rebound.

That's what's called a pass to yourself. got his own own rebound.

They should have won a championship right with those two guys and obviously they didn't. But you know you've started hearing about the can bay then and I don't know if you know this I actually

Played a year at the University of District of Columbia and so there were some stories I heard when I was at UDC where they were saying that

the Kenbe was initially supposed to be going there.

But he, you know, he got a scholarship like a

kind of US grant scholarship and ended up at Georgetown

to be a doctor, but that changed and, you know,

more surgical with his hands blocking shots than he ever had to be on

somebody else. The first time I ever saw him I was seven years old. It was at the

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