“Happier than Dikembe Mutombo blocking a shot,” replies the other, before Mutombo races onto the screen and slaps away the “G” in “Geico” that appears. The commercial is as funny as ...

Dikembe appeared in early-2000s movies such as Juwanna Mann and Like Mike. For younger fans, when they think of Mutombo, they think about his iconic GEICO commercial. In 2015, Mutombo was inducted ...