But I will say, Richard Pitino made some sense in his attempt to explain what he saw from his father’s hand — a lot more sense than Rick Pitino made trying to deny it.
“I think he was about to give the finger, but he didn’t,” Richard Pitino said on his weekly radio show. “Like he put his fist up. So maybe it was like that Rocky 4 thing … But he definitely did not give the finger, because I was looking at it like ‘Oh god, don’t give the finger.’ And he didn’t.