“You got to be special to play with Patrick,” Oakley said. “You had to do so much out of your ordinary just to be on the team, and that hurt us sometimes. As a team, we’re supposed to be close and together. It wasn’t that. We had to make sure he was happy. He didn’t care if we [were] happy or not. That’s a sad situation, and I see why the Knicks won’t give him a job. He treated them bad — inside out. Chris [Childs] will tell you. He was tough to play with, but he wasn’t no problem to me because I understand. [Anthony Mason] had a problem with it because Mase always hollered and cussed at him.”