<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>ESPN -Dikembe Mutombo has had enough of the jokes about his age.Cracks about Mutombo actually being older than he says have been circulating since his college days at Georgetown ... and he's laughed along for years.But that changed recently when family members began taking offense to the regularity of such jokes during television broadcasts. Mutombo told ESPN.com this week that it's reached the point that he plans to seek out NBA commissioner David Stern for advice on how to at least stop TV commentators from openly accusing the league's oldest active player of misrepresenting his birthdate."My wife [Rose]just mentioned that to me a few days ago," said Mutombo. "She said: 'Honey, I think this joke has gone on too long and it has to stop. Is there a way you can tell the commissioner during the All-Star break to let the world know that this thing needs to stop, from a media standpoint all the way to the players?'"It really doesn't disturb me, but it hurts when your wife starts feeling uncomfortable about it. Even my daughter [Carrie] says, 'Daddy, why are they talking about your age?' She's nine years old and she knows about it.""When people think your father is a liar, it makes you look bad in front of your children," Mutombo said. "Kids don't know when it's a joke and when it's not a joke. It never bothered me before, but it starts bothering me more as I'm getting questions from my wife [and] especially my daughter. She left me a voice message in the middle of a game [recently that said], 'Daddy, they're talking about your age on TV. That's not funny.' "</div>ESPNMaaaaan... looks like the fun of that is going to be over soon. But we all know the 70-year old Mutombo can still do it in this league.
I don't think you can stop media from making jokes about age. But if you can, then Dikembe is doing the right thing.
There is no way he can stop the media from making jokes. There will prolly be more jokes about this afterwards because he made such a big deal out of the jokes.
dumb thing is he talked 2 espn bout it, now dey got an article -people read articles- so it'll escalate. I didnt even know dey made jokes (only saw a motumbo age joke 1s) bout it till I read this lol.
