Sometimes, we have to pass along stories that are really non-stories but are making the rounds as stories. It’s a whole thing, the content aggregation game. On the off chance this is off interest to some, though, here we go.
All’s not well in Raptorland.
Dikembe Mutombo is claiming that he never gave Bismack Biyombo permission to use his patented post-block Finger Wag, saying he doesn’t remember the supposed conversation in which he supposedly gave the OK for gimmick infringement.
“Him and I need to talk,” Mutombo told TMZ. “I don’t know when did that conversation took place.”
For his part, Biyombo recently explained after a game that Mutombo gave him “the license,” though it was on the condition he land in Atlanta. Biyombo has been using the wag a ton in the postseason, because he’s been swatting away shot after shot. Mutombo seems to be having a good time in the interview – it certainly doesn’t seem he’s mad or bothered by it – but a discussion is forthcoming.
@CheleNik very good.
— Dikembe Mutombo (@officialmutombo) May 22, 2016
“I will see him in the Congo this summer so him and I will talk back home with nobody around us,” Mutombo concludes.
Mutombo, by the way, said he’s Biyombo’s “big brother” in an interview with Chris O’Leary of the Toronto Star earlier this season. Biyombo echoed those sentiments earlier this week.
Don’t let this ruin the Biyombo fun. His finger wag ain’t going anywhere.
