Mutombo: Biyombo doesn’t need OK to finger wag

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Toronto Raptors center Bismack Biyombo may not have gotten permission from Dikembe Mutombo to use the retired shot-blocking star’s finger-wag celebration, but Mutombo says Biyombo “really doesn’t need it.”

“You can copy something you like,” Mutombo told ESPN.com on Tuesday night. “Bismack is my youngest brother. I have nothing to be mad at him for. I’m so proud of him. We’re from the same country [Congo], and I call and text him every day to congratulate him because I’m so proud of him.”

Biyombo, 23, had said he’d received permission from Mutombo to use the finger-wag celebration, but Mutombo told TMZ, “I don’t know when that conversation took place. Him and I need to talk this summer.”

Biyombo had told ESPN’s production crew, and others, earlier in the Eastern Conference finals, “After I had a conversation with Mutombo, I just felt like he has been great to my country. … And I thought it was a better way to keep his legacy going. I love Mutombo …

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