Ryan Mutombo, the son of former NBA great Dikembe Mutombo and a former standout at the Lovett School, confirmed with The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he intends to transfer for Georgia Tech for the upcoming 2024-25 season.
A 7-foot-2, 259-pound center, Mutombo entered the NCAA transfer portal in April from Georgetown. He played in just 15 games and only 55 minutes during the 2023-24 season, his third with the Hoyas.
Mutombo was an all-state selection as a senior at Lovett School in 2021. He scored more than 1,500 career points and averaged 24 points, 12 rebounds and 4.8 blocks as a junior. Mutombo was considered a four-star prospect by the 247Sports Composite and had more than a dozen scholarship offers, including ones from Tech, Georgia, Arizona and Tennessee.
In July of 2021, Mutombo enrolled at Georgetown where his father was twice the Big East defensive player of the year. Ryan Mutombo played in 27 games as a freshman and 12 as a sophomore. He scored a career high 15 points in a 2021 game against Maryland-Baltimore County, a game in which he recorded his lone career double-double.
Dikembo Mutombo, the No. 4 overall pick of the 1991 NBA Draft, was an NBA all-star eight times and four times named the league’s defensive player of the year. He joined the Hawks in 1996 until he was traded to the Sixers in 2001.
Dikembo Mutombo and Tech head coach Damon Stoudamire played in the NBA together from 1995-2008.
Ryan Mutombo would be the seventh new member of the ‘24-25 Yellow Jackets, joining Colorado transfer Luke O’Brien, Oklahoma transfer Javian McCollum and freshmen signee Jaeden Mustaf, Cole Kirouac, Doryan Onwuchekwa and Darrion Sutton.
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