Dikembe Mutombo will play one more year for the Rockets, and then retire after 17 seasons in the NBA, he told KRIV-TV in Houston.

"I am going to play and enjoy it and walk away from it," Mutombo told the station, according to its Web site.

Mutombo, 41 said Rockets GM Daryl Morey came to Atlanta to meet with him last month to let him know how much the Rockets wanted him back. That meant a lot, Mutombo said, according to the report.