“We are absolutely thrilled to welcome Patrick and his family to Provo,” Young said. “Patrick is one of the best humans I’ve met in the game of basketball. Cougar Nation will love him and his family. He has tremendous experience in the NBA and with USA Basketball that will be of great benefit to all of our players and staff. We couldn’t be more excited to add the Mutombo family to BYU basketball.”

Mutombo (no relation to Dikembe Mutombo) fits the culture of Provo perfectly, having coached some of the best players in the world, including Kawhi Leonard, Devin Booker, Kevin Durant and Giannis Antetokounmpo.

The native of Kinshasa, Zaire was an assistant for the Toronto Raptors during their run to the 2019 NBA title where they defeated Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors 4-2 in the NBA Finals.

He comes to Provo after serving as an assistant coach with USA Basketball over the past two years helping the Americans go 3-1 during the World Cup Qualifying Window #1 and #2. He also served an assistant on Stephen Siilas’ staff during the 2025 FIBA Men’s AmeriCup, going 4-2 and earning a bronze medal.

Mutombo was an assistant coach for the Memphis Grizzlies during the 2024-25 season, when they went 48-34 to finish second in the Southwest Division and the No. 8 seed in the playoffs. He spent a year with Antetokounmpo in Milwaukee after working with Young and the Phoenix Suns during the 2022-23 season.

He served as the head coach of the Raptors 905 for two seasons, finishing with the best record in their division in back-to-back seasons for the first time in organization history. During a COVID-19 shortened season in 2019-20, Mutombo and the Raptors went 12-3 in the regular season, advancing to the semifinals and falling to the Delaware Blue Coats. They would go 24-8 the following season and finish atop the Eastern Conference before falling to the Blue Coats in the playoffs again, this time in the conference final.

During his four-year stint as an assistant coach with the Raptors, Mutombo was instrumental in helping the organization go 221-97 and finish in the top three of the Eastern Conference every season. Toronto won its first-ever NBA Championship in 2019 after going 58-24 during the regular season and entered the playoffs with the No. 2 seed. After defeating the Orlando Magic in five games, Toronto needed a buzzer-beater from Leonard in Game 7 to defeat the Philadelphia 76ers and advance past the conference semifinals for the first time with Mutombo on staff.

After going down 0-2 against the Bucks in the conference finals, the Raptors became the sixth team in NBA history to win four straight games. They would later defeat the Golden State Warriors in six games, becoming the first non-US team to win a NBA title.

Mutombo served as an assistant coach with the Austin Spurs in 2015-16 after beginning his NBA coaching career with the Denver Nuggets as an assistant from 2012-15.

A 6-foot-5 forward, Mutombo played at Metro State from 1999-2003, where he was a two-time NCAA Division II National Champion under Mike Dunlap. After appearing in 20 games as a true freshman during the Roadrunners’ run to the national title in 2000, Mutombo was named the RMAC Player of the Year as a junior in 2002, averaging a team-high 16.6 points and 4.4 rebounds per game, shooting 53.6 percent from the field and 88.4 percent from the free-throw line.

He was named the Most Outstanding Player of the 2002 Elite Eight after a three-game run where he scored 29 points in an 80-72 championship game victory Kentucky Wesleyan. He was inducted into the Metro State Athletic Hall of Fame in 2011.

After exhausting his eligibility, Mutombo played overseas from 2003-09, spending five of those seasons in Italy with Pallacanestro Messina, Roseto, Air Avellino, Pallalcesto Udine and Ferrara. He finished his professional career with Bakersfield Jam of the NBA Development League.