Other celebrities have had their privileges revoked by Dolan. A source told the Daily News that another director and longtime Garden presence, Woody Allen, was banned several years ago from Suite 200, which is a VIP club at MSG. Allen’s crime was refusing to do promotions for MSG, according to a source. If Allen still attends Knicks games, he’s no longer being showed on the MSG Network telecast. Actor Ethan Hawke said he stopped receiving free tickets because he criticized the Knicks’ handling of Jeremy Lin on “The Jimmy Fallon Show.” Actor Michael Rapaport also said his comped tickets were stripped because he supported Oakley.
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Chris Paul said the suggestions that …
Chris Paul said the suggestions that he’s joining the Knicks are a diversion from the franchise’s latest embarrassing episode. While walking into Madison Square Garden before Friday’s game against New York, the Thunder guard was approached by a league employee and asked about the rumors. “They’re trying to take attention away from that Spike Lee stuff,” Paul responded as the exchange was caught on SNY.
And despite the Knicks’ ineptitude, …
And despite the Knicks’ ineptitude, Jada and others like acclaimed director Spike Lee have remained loyal. Which is why he wasn’t happy with how Lee was treated in his now infamous entrance issue. “I thought that was disgusting. Ever since I can remember watching basketball Spike’s been on the sideline watching the games, rooting for the Knicks. Good seasons. Bad seasons. Do or die. He reps harder than any individual I know. For them to do him like that… I don’t know all of the details but it should be Dolan and then Spike for me with the Garden and the Knicks. I thought the red carpet was laid out for him, but you see it wasn’t.”
We spoke with Childs — who played with …
We spoke with Childs — who played with the Knicks from 1996-2001 — and he’s laying the blame for all of the drama squarely at Dolan’s feet. “Spike Lee has been coming to these game forever,” Childs says. “If he wants to land a helicopter through the roof, let him!” Childs added, “He hasn’t done anything, but support that franchise when they’re at their lowest. So, how do you embarrass that man like that with your flashlight cops? Tell him he can’t use that entrance? And, that only comes from the top.”
Charles Oakley wants the NBA to ‘take a look’ at the Knicks
Oak has spoken.
If there’s anyone who knows what Spike Lee is going through right now, it’s Charles Oakley.
Oakley was removed from Madison Square Garden in handcuffs by security in 2017 after getting into an argument with team owner James Dolan. He was given a lifetime ban from the arena after the altercation and hasn’t been back since.
Fast forward three years later and Spike Lee is getting into arguments with ownership himself and saying he won’t watch games from MSG for the rest of the season. He’s not on the same lifetime ban tip as Oakley is, but it doesn’t feel like he’s too far away.
And, apparently, Oakley has had enough. He’s so fed up with the team that he wants the NBA to step in, he told the Associated Press.
“It’s got to be stopped in some kind of way. The NBA has got to take a look at this. You can’t keep closing your eyes to this. This is like, turn your head if you see someone beat somebody up and you just keep walking. It just keeps happening in New York. People are not going to come here because it’s the same thing over and over and over. They got a new president and all everyone is talking about what happened between Spike Lee and the Garden.”
I mean, he’s not wrong. Nobody even remembered that the Knicks won their game against the Rockets on the day they officially hired Leon Rose. It wasn’t even an afterthought — all people talked about was Spike Lee and the Knicks beef.
It’s hard to see the NBA stepping in and doing anything, really. We’ve only seen that on a few occasions, such as the Donald Sterling incident, and, uh, that ain’t this.
But the Knicks are definitely a mess and will continue to be one until someone cleans them up.
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The Knicks and Lee are in a full-blown …
“Donald Sterling didn’t sell his team …
“Donald Sterling didn’t sell his team either until the NBA came in and did something,” Oakley said. “If you’re a former player and what happened to me when they [dragged] me out of there for no reason, and we got the tape and I didn’t do nothing, it’s like lynching somebody back in the ‘40s and ‘50s. [Dolan] don’t care. I hate to put him in the category of Donald Trump, I think he’s Trump’s nephew. He don’t care.”
“What’s gonna be next? They want …
“What’s gonna be next? They want somebody to get killed in there?” said Oakley, whose defamation suit against Dolan stemming from his February 2017 arrest was dismissed last month. Oakley believes Dolan is a “control freak” who shouldn’t sit courtside if he doesn’t want to hear criticism. “If you wanna stop people from saying stuff, don’t come to the games,” Oakley said. “You can’t be that sensitive.”