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WTF?! Knick Legend Charles Oakley banned from MSG for life Update: Oak @ game TONITE!

James Dolan invites Charles Oakley to MSG after Michael Jordan mediates
POSTED 7:36 PM, FEBRUARY 13, 2017, BY ALYSSA ZAUDERER, UPDATED AT 08:22PM, FEBRUARY 13, 2017


NEW YORK — Charles Oakley’s MSG ban has been dunked — thanks to a surprising assist from Michael Jordan.

Oakley, the beloved former Knick power forward, was banned from The Garden after a shoving match with security guards. Not even a week later, he can now return to MSG at the invitation of his one-time nemesis — Knicks owner James Dolan. They both patched things up with a little help from another NBA legend.

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver issued a statement Monday regarding the Feb. 8 incident.

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NBA Commissioner Adam Silver issued the following statement today regarding the situation involving Charles Oakley and Madison Square Garden

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“It is beyond disheartening to see situations involving members of the NBA family like the one that occurred at Madison Square Garden this past week,” said Silver.




To help smooth things over, Silver met with Dolan and Oakley at the league office on Monday. Jordan participated in the conversation over the phone as a mediator.

"Both Mr. Oakley and Mr. Dolan were apologetic about the incident and subsequent comments, and their negative impact on the Knicks organization and the NBA," said Silver.

"Mr. Dolan expressed his hope that Mr. Oakley would return to MSG as his guest in the near future."​

Oakley was escorted from his seat at MSG and arrested after an altercation during the Knicks' game against the Los Angeles Clippers.

Video showed Oakley shove a security guard before they pulled him away from his seat. He was charged with three counts of assault and one count of criminal trespassing.

A final resolution is not yet in place, according to Silver.

"I appreciate the efforts of Mr. Dolan, Mr. Oakley and Mr. Jordan to work towards a resolution of this matter," Silver said.
 
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ansatsusha_gouki said:
You know you fucked up big time,if even opposing fans and players calling you out for what you did.....


Props to Jordan for helping his boy out...
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ESPECIALLY the fact that it was MJ...

I tried to told ya'll

Phil aint call MJ to PROTECT Oak

he did it to protect HIMSELF

pint blank period.

And the fact that essentially Dolan allowed himself to be G checked by ANOTHER owner and Jordan no less?

Dolan is a loser...all his money don't change that fact.
 
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Oakley won't forgive Dolan: Swimming pool's full of water, takes a while to drain
The Knicks great remains a quote machine



Former New York Knicks great Charles Oakley may have spoken to Knicks owner James Dolan on Monday, but that doesn't mean he's ready to forgive him for banning him from Madison Square Garden for life after being ejected from the arena and arrested last week. In an interview with Dan Le Batard on ESPN Radio on Tuesday, Oakley explained his unwillingness to accept Dolan's invitation back to the Garden in the most Oak way possible, via theNew York Post's Marc Berman:

"Right now, no. I told him [Monday]," Oakley said. "I want to have a press conference and I want him to apologize to me and the fans. They've had my back and they've felt the pain. I really appreciate the people all around who've had my back."

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"The swimming pool is still full of water," Oakley said Tuesday. "It takes a while for it to drain."

Oakley is one of the most quotable players in NBA history, and here's another example. He could have said that he has a longstanding feud with Dolan that won't be resolved by one conference call coordinated by Michael Jordan and Adam Silver, and that he is deeply hurt by how the organization he worked so hard for has marginalized him. He could have said that reconciliation is possible at some point, but being kicked out by a team of security guards was still too fresh in his mind. Instead, he said that the swimming pool is still full of water, and it takes a while to drain. This is part of why he's so beloved in New York.
 
Oakley won’t accept end of MSG ban until Dolan shamed publicly
By Fred Kerber

February 14, 2017 | 11:26am | Updated



Well, so much for that happy ending between Knicks legend Charles Oakley and team owner James Dolan.

With Oakley’s potential lifetime ban lifted through Dolan’s invitation to the former player to return to the Garden as his guest, Oakley said thanks but no thanks.

The former bruising power forward and fan favorite from Pat Riley’s powerful Knicks teams of the 1990s wants Dolan to apologize to him and the fans before he will return.

“Knicks fans and the city of New York have stood by Charles throughout his career as a Knick and continue to do so, and he is beyond grateful for that,” Oakley spokesman Akhtar Farzaie said. “The fans deserve, and are entitled to, an apology.”

Oakley first made his demand through ESPN Radio’s “Dan Le Batard Show” on Tuesday.

“Right now, no. I told him [Monday],” Oakley said. “If a swimming pool is full of water, it takes a while for it to drain.”

And Oakley wants a public apology.

“I want to have a press conference and I want him to apologize to me and the fans,” Oakley said. “They’ve had my back and they’ve felt the pain. I really appreciate the people all around who’ve had my back.”

The Garden declined comment. Indications are the Garden has no plans to issue Oakley a public apology.

On Monday, NBA commissioner Adam Silver said, “Enough” and intervened in the squabble. He summoned the rivals to his Midtown office while using Hornets owner and mega-legend Michael Jordan, Oakley’s good friend, to intercede via phone.

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“Both Mr. Oakley and Mr. Dolan were apologetic about the incident and subsequent comments, and their negative impact on the Knicks organization and the NBA,” Silver said in a statement Monday. “Mr. Dolan expressed his hope that Mr. Oakley would return to MSG as his guest in the near future.”

The next home game is Feb. 25 against Philadelphia. After the All-Star break, the Knicks play Feb. 23, the trade deadline, in Cleveland, Oakley’s hometown, and home to LeBron James — who, along with Carmelo Anthony, Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade, were the “Big Four” whose recent support meant so much to Oakley.

In a perfect world, Oakley would be Dolan’s guest, get a free ticket and sit next to him like Latrell Sprewell did Sunday. But Oakley has declined, awaiting that apology. Oakley said he apologized to Dolan on Monday for past remarks.

Oakley was dragged from his seat, forcibly ejected then arrested Wednesday. Oakley claimed he was targeted because of a long-standing feud with Dolan. Garden brass said Oakley was abusive, both physically and verbally, from the moment he arrived and produced statements from a dozen witnesses. Dolan on Friday confirmed Oakley was banned from the Garden in what he claimed was “not necessarily a lifetime ban.” Dolan, a recovering addict, also suggested Oakley has a drinking problem and anger issues.

“That hurt more than the 10 guys who jumped on me,” Oakley said Tuesday, referring to the security guards.

NBA types past and present, politicians and fans sprung to Oakley’s defense. Brooklyn Borough president Eric Adams on Sunday, with other African-American leaders, called for an end to Oakley’s Garden ban. Adams, a former NYPD captain, also asked the assault and trespass misdemeanor charges against Oakley be dropped. He referred to Oakley’s treatment as “Eric Garner without the chokehold.”

At Knicks practice Tuesday, most thought the commissioner’s meeting resolved the matter.

“The only way something can get resolved is if those two men sit down and have a man-to-man conversation,” Anthony said. “We would love to see Oakley back in the building. But I’m glad to see the two men sat down and had that conversation.

“As much as the Oakley situation didn’t affect us as players, we were part of that. We’re under the same umbrella. It’s our home court. It’s in Madison Square Garden, and we’re a part of that. We can’t escape that, we can’t run from that.”

Coach Jeff Hornacek called the incident “a minor distraction, not a big deal for our guys” who “handled it pretty well, but there is always talk about it. Oak was a great player for the Knicks, and hopefully someday he comes back.”

— Additional reporting by Marc Berman

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CHARLES OAKLEY SAYS HE'D RATHER GO TO JAIL THAN GET HELP FROM NBA




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New York Knicks legend Charles Oakley isn't interested in getting help from the NBA.

"I told them I'd rather go to jail than them saying they did something for me," he said in a Thursday interview with Sports Illustrated (h/t Ian Begley of ESPN.com). "That's how bad this is for me. I'd rather go to jail."

Oakley was removed by security from Madison Square Garden on Feb. 8 during the Knicks' game against the Los Angeles Clippers. Begley noted Oakley was arrested on misdemeanor assault charges and subsequently banned from MSG by team owner James Dolan.


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However, Begley pointed out the ban was lifted Monday following a meeting between Dolan, Oakley, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver and Michael Jordan.

Despite the removal of the ban, Begley wrote that Oakley told ESPN he had no interest in attending a Knicks game as a guest of the team.

Oakley took particular issue with Dolan suggesting he has a drinking problem, via Begley: "My life is going to change a lot because it's just like getting a DUI sometime or going to jail for murder. It's something on my record. If you Google my name, it's going to come up. And that hurts."

The Knicks released a statement in the near aftermath of the incident that ended "we hope he gets some help soon" when discussing Oakley:

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Oakley also said, "No, some things can't be solved," when asked by Maggie Gray of Sports Illustrated if there is a potential resolution in the future with the Knicks.

This isn't the first time Oakley has taken umbrage with the organization he played for from 1988 to 1998. Chris Mannix of The Vertical said he has "a complicated, often contemptuous relationship" with the team and rarely attended games at Madison Square Garden before the incident.

Frank Isola, Kerry Burke, Stefan Bondy and Daniel Popper of the New York Daily News also pointed to a "contentious history" between Oakley and Dolan and said the former has not been invited to tributes for former players in the past.
 
Charles Oakley blasts Knicks owner James Dolan, compares him to Donald Sterling
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By Dane CarbaughFeb 16, 2017, 11:15 PM EST



Charles Oakley has had his lifetime ban lifted from Madison Square Garden by New York Knicks owner James Dolan, but the two don’t appear to be on speaking terms any time soon.

Speaking with SI’s Maggie Gray, Oakley compared Dolan to former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, said Dolan’s insinuation he was an alcoholic was out of line, and said he preferred jail to the Knicks acting nice to him.

“He’s way out of line,” said Oakley. “If I had those types of problems, someone would have came forward and said something about me to say ‘He’s right’. He’s trying to paint me as a different person. I’m not that guy.”​

Golden State Warriors forward Draymond Green recently said that Dolan had a “slavemaster mentality”, and when Gray asked Oakley to respond he said he felt Dolan was an issue waiting to happen for the league.

“He’s a control freak. He’s got everybody in the Garden on pins and needles,” said Oakley. “The other owners know this … they’re going to end up letting something happen like what happened to the LA Clippers. It’s that bad and they won’t talk about it.”​

Oakley also felt that he thought the meeting that occurred between himself and Dolan in Adam Silver’s office — with buddy Michael Jordan conferencing in — was not meant to end the issue between them. Rather, Oakley felt the meeting was for the league to save face heading into the 2017 NBA All-Star Game.

The former Knicks big man also said he didn’t want the league or Dolan to get a pass for trying to reach out and help him with the situation.

“I’d rather go to jail.”
 
Charles Oakley: There’s more to him than what you’ve seen
Updated February 15, 2017 3:53 PM
By Barbara Barker barbara.barker@newsday.com


I sat in a Toronto hotel room once with a heartbroken Charles Oakley.

It was 18 years ago, and eight months had passed since the Knicks had traded Oakley to the Toronto Raptors. He was still struggling to come to terms with it. After a decade of feeding off the excitement and energy that comes from playing at Madison Square Garden, Oakley was at a loss in Toronto. He rarely ventured out into his new city, refusing to entertain the notion of even getting an apartment. Instead, he ate with his teammates at Air Canada Center, watched CNN for his stocks and surfed endlessly for a sportscast that didn’t lead off with hockey.


“I know everything happens for a reason,” Oakley said of the trade. “But I still don’t know why they did it.”

This story bears telling today because it shows how much Oakley’s heart, soul and identity is intertwined with the Knicks and their fans. And, if we have learned anything over this past week since Oakley got into an altercation with security guards and was banned from the Garden, it’s that the love affair was a two-way street.

This is why NBA Commissioner Adam Silver took the unusual and dramatic step Monday of bringing Oakley and Knicks owner James Dolan together to broker peace, why Oakley’s longtime friend and former teammate Michael Jordan conferenced in. Though Oakley has said he is still upset about the incident, I would bet that he will eventually be back as a guest at The Garden.

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This is good news for all Knicks fans. Because more than any other player, including Patrick Ewing, Oakley personified the Knicks’ gritty, bruising, physical style of play in the 1990s. Many of today’s Knicks fans grew up watching those teams. They fell in love with the Knicks because of Oakley, and to see him banned from the Garden was emotionally wrenching.

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I don’t know what happened Wednesday night when Oakley was removed from the Clippers game, but I do know that Oakley had my back in the locker room in the 1990s when not everyone was thrilled that a woman was in there. And for that, I will be forever grateful.

The Knicks’ locker room in the 1990s was small, set up in a way so that the media was forced to walk by the opening to the sink and shower room in order to get where the players’ cubicles were. Locker rooms were open for 45 minutes before each game, and reporters were supposed to use that time to hang out and chat with players, many of whom were in various stages of undress. I was exceedingly uncomfortable doing this part of the job, and Oakley noticed.

“Barbara!” I remember him bellowing across the room gesturing at my feet. “Lemme see those boots.”

And with that, a professional friendship was born. Oakley was a clothes horse extraordinaire, and part of my pregame ritual came to include stopping by his locker to see what he was wearing postgame. I remember he once told me he had 18 pairs of exotic leather shoes in his closet, two in green alligator. One Sunday on the road when he and Chris Childs both showed up in the same pastel-colored suit, a miffed Oakley went back and changed his to black so that he would stand out.

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If Oakley didn’t like something, he would tell you — whether it be your shoes, a story you wrote or some recent development on the Knicks. This trait likely is what caused his falling out with the organization in recent years as his opinion of his former team didn’t always jive with what you might be putting on a news release. The thing is Oakley’s honestly was really a great part of his charm. How much diplomacy can you really expect from a guy who made a living through hustle and muscle, through non-stop nastiness underneath the basket?

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This is something I’ve thought a lot about over the past few days as I traded Oakley stories over the phone with various reporters I worked with in the 1990s.

Nearly everyone who covered Oakley has fond memories. There are myriad of embellished tales of how tough Oak was, how many times he should have come equipped with an airbag as he hurtled into fans seated by the court going for a loose ball, occasionally winding up with beer or mustard or even portions of a Garden Dog on his jersey.

But here’s my favorite Oakley story. During the 1997 All-Star weekend, in his hometown of Cleveland, he took four of us reporters home to his mother, fed us sweet potato pie and even showed us a prom picture, circa 1981, from John Hay High School. Some might say he did it to curry favor. I think he simply wanted the people who wrote about him to know who he was and see what had given a Gheri-curled kid from Cleveland enough resolve, medium-range jumpers and death stares to become a fan favorite in New York.

I think of how proud Oakley was to be a Knick. And then, I think back to Oakley I knew 18 years ago in Toronto, alone in a hotel room as he tried to get used to the fact he was now with the Raptors.

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All he has ever wanted to be is part of the New York Knicks’ family again. Here’s hoping this happens soon.
 
Charles Oakley rips Ewing and threatens to drag this out for years
By Zach Braziller

Don’t expect to see a “Charles Oakley Day” anytime soon.

The Knicks great is unwilling to drop his grudge with owner James Dolan after last week’s ugly incident in which he was booted from the Garden, arrested and temporarily banned. You may not see Oakley back at MSG for up to half a decade.

“They’re trying to sweep this under the rug. I gotta think about this,” Oakley told The Undefeated. “They tried to tell me, ‘Let’s get some understanding around this.’ I told them in the meeting, ‘My understanding is, it might be three, four, five years before I come to a conclusion how I feel about going back in the Garden. I’m not just going back in the Garden because you want to honor me.’

“Shoulda been done already, right? Why do we always have to wait for somethin’ bad to happen to get honored? They makin’ it look like I want something out of them. No. My thing is, you slandered my name. A Charles Oakley Day isn’t going to fix that.”

Oakley, who employed racial rhetoric in a separate interview Thursday, went on to take shots at NBA commissioner Adam Silver — he feels Silver “tricked” him into Monday’s meeting with Dolan, though Oakley’s lawyers called for the meet — and the Knicks alums (Latrell Sprewell, Bernard King, Larry Johnson) who conspicuously sat with Dolan at last Sunday’s home game — “I can’t respect Sprewell. These guys were flown in town to make him look good. I can’t respect those guys no more” — and even longtime running mate Patrick Ewing.


“Any time for Patrick [Ewing] to speak up, you think this would be it — he was my closest teammate who played with me,” Oakley told The Undefeated.


http://nypost.com/2017/02/17/charles-oakley-rips-ewing-and-threatens-to-drag-this-out-for-years/​
 
Fat Joe: Knicks' treatment of Charles Oakley 'one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen'


By: Adi Joseph | February 16, 2017 8:47 am

Fat Joe turned on the Knicks game, like he has so many times before.

They were playing the Clippers, on ESPN, holding close despite being the Knicks. Then Charles Oakley was on screen.

“Broke my heart. Broke my heart,” the Bronx rap legend told For The Win this week. “First thing I turned on the TV and seen that, I wanted to die.”

Fat Joe (real name Joseph Cartagena) came to the For The Win office to promote his new collaborative album with Remy Ma, Plata o Plomo, which comes out Friday. He left only after emotionally eviscerating the Knicks’ treatment of Oakley over the past week.

“To see a monument, a living statue get thrown out like that was one of the most disgusting things I have ever seen in my life,” he said. “And it hurt me so bad as a Knick fan. I’m not saying we’re not going to be Knick fans no more, but there had to be a way to de-escalate that and get that over with the right way.”

Fat Joe’s career began in the early 1990s, an era when the Knicks and the New York rap scene were both peaking. The overlap led to players knowing rappers and vice versa.

Joe was the one who revealed last year that Notorious B.I.G.’s story about the Knicks player and his girlfriend was about the late Anthony Mason. At the time, Oakley stepped up to defend Mason and call out Joe.

But there’s no question where Fat Joe’s loyalties lie, and he wants Knicks owner James Dolan to know.

“The only reason we like the Knicks in 2017 is because of Charles Oakley,” he said, “and Patrick Ewing and, we’ll even say Sprewell, we’ll say Starks, we’ll say Mark Jackson. That team. That’s the only reason we still go every day to the Garden and put on the TV.

“That was our golden era.”

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'NBA legend' Charles Oakley joins BIG3, will serve as player/coach
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Charles Oakley, the former Knicks great currently embroiled in a feud with team owner James Dolan, has agreed to play in the new 3-on-3 league founded by entertainer Ice Cube that features several other ex-NBA players.

Oakley, 53, will serve as a player/coach for a team that also will include Chauncey Billups and Stephen Jackson in the BIG3 league's inaugural season.

"Charles Oakley is an NBA legend, who deserves and has earned respect, and will get just that in our league," Ice Cube said.

Oakley has been at the center of a controversy with Dolan after Oakley was forcibly removed from Madison Square Garden and arrested on misdemeanor assault charges Feb. 8. Dolan banned Oakley from the arena indefinitely after the incident. The Knicks lifted the ban Monday after Dolan spoke with Oakley, NBA commissioner Adam Silver and Michael Jordan.

Oakley on Tuesday told ESPN that he still doesn't want to attend a Knicks game as a guest of the organization. He later told The Undefeated's Mike Wise it would take some time before he was ready to reconcile with the organization.

The BIG3 hasn't released its schedule yet, but it is not expected to hold games at Madison Square Garden.

The league is scheduled to start play over the summer and will feature other well-known ex-NBA players, including Allen Iverson, Jermaine O'Neal, Rashard Lewis, Jason Williams, Latrell Sprewell and Ricky Davis.

Sprewell attended a Knicks game at Madison Square Garden as a guest of Dolan just days after Oakley's ejection and arrest. It was the first game Sprewell attended at MSG since he had a public falling-out with Dolan after being traded from the Knicks. Sprewell's appearance was seen as an attempt to show that Dolan has good relationships with ex-players in the wake of the Oakley incident. Sprewell, Bernard King and Larry Johnson sat alongside Dolan, and several other former Knicks attended the win over the San Antonio Spurs.

Oakley told ESPN's Mike Wise earlier this week that he lost respect for Sprewell for attending the game as Dolan's guest.

"I'm really pissed about how they brought those guys back to sit with him," Oakley said. "Bernard King is a legend and everything, but he went through an incident where he was wronged in college by the police. And I can't respect Sprewell. These guys were flown in town to make him look good. I can't respect those guys no more."

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Charles Oakley says he can't respect Sprewell, others who sat with James Dolan
The Knicks great says it could be years before he's back in the Garden



New York Knicks great Charles Oakley told The Undefeated’s Mike Wise that he doesn’t respect Latrell Sprewell and the other former Knicks who were used as pawns in James Dolan’s bizarre public-relations stunt last Sunday, adding that it could be three to five years before he returns to Madison Square Garden.

“I’m not happy,” Oakley said. “I told them I’m not happy. They’re tryin’ to sweep this under the rug. I gotta think about this. They tried to tell me, ‘Let’s get some understanding around this.’ I told them in the meeting, ‘My understanding is, it might be three, four, five years before I come to a conclusion how I feel about going back in the Garden. I’m not just going back in the Garden because you want to honor me.’

“Shoulda been done already, right? Why do we always have to wait for somethin’ bad to happen to get honored? They makin’ it look like I want something out of them. No. My thing is, you slandered my name. A Charles Oakley Day isn’t going to fix that.”

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“I’m really pissed about how they brought those guys back to sit with him,” Oakley said. “Bernard King is a legend and everything, but he went through an incident where he was wronged in college by the police.

“And I can’t respect Sprewell. These guys were flown in town to make him look good. I can’t respect those guys no more.”​

Just days after Oakley was ejected from MSG and arrested, then banned from the arena by Dolan, the Knicks paraded out Sprewell, who sat next to Dolan courtside and got a huge ovation. Next to him were Larry Johnson and Bernard King. All of them, plus Kenny Walker, Bill Bradley, Gerald Wilkins, John Wallace and Herb Williams were given video tributes in the first half of the game. Vin Baker, also in attendance, told The Huffington Post’s Jordan Schultz that Dolan “called me sounding really sad, asking me if I would come sit with him. Hadn’t spoke to him in 15 years.”

This was a transparent attempt to illustrate that Oakley, not the Knicks’ treatment of former players, was the problem here. It did not work, and it certainly did not help matters when it came to resolving the issue between Dolan and Oakley.

The NBA tried to help fix this mess this week, with a meeting coordinated by Michael Jordan and commissioner Adam Silver. In a way, it was successful, as Dolan lifted the ban. Oakley, however, is making it extremely clear that he won’t forgive and forget easily.
 
DeMarcus Cousins doesn't respect Knicks' treatment of Oakley: 'It was disgusting'
The Kings center is on Charles Oakley's side



Since the New York Knicks ejected Charles Oakley from Madison Square Garden, had him arrested and banned him from the arena, a great many players, ex-players, celebrities and fans have ripped the organization and owner James Dolan. Sacramento Kings center DeMarcus Cousins is the latest to join the party, jumping alongside people like LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Paul, Draymond Green, Michele Roberts, Fat Joe, Spike Lee and Michael Rapaport.

At All-Star media availability on Friday, Cousins called the Knicks’ actions “disgusting,” viathe Los Angeles Times’ Tania Ganguli.

Cousins is simply speaking his mind, and he is also speaking for the vast majority of the NBA community. Personally, I hope Oakley sees this comment and reaches out to Cousins to thank him for his support. I’d love for the two tough big guys to be buddies.


 
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CHARLES OAKLEY WILL ATTEND KNICKS VS. CAVALIERS IN CLEVELAND




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While Charles Oakley has been reluctant to attend a New York Knicks game at Madison Square Garden since getting ejected from the arena and arrested Feb. 8, he will be present at Quicken Loans Arena on Thursday when the Cleveland Cavaliers host the Knicks.

According to Frank Isola of the New York Daily News, Oakley confirmed via text message he will be in "The Q" on Thursday night.

The former NBA All-Star also sent the following tweet in reference to his appearance:


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Oakley—who is a Cleveland native—was initially banned from MSG by Knicks owner James Dolan on Feb. 10. Dolan also suggested that Oakley had a drinking problem.

That came after the Knicks released the following tweet regarding Oakley's actions during his ejection, which featured him physically assaulting multiple people:

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Dolan lifted the ban days later, but Oakley said he isn't ready to return to Madison Square Garden and asked for an apology, according to ESPN's Jeff Goodman: "It's not about being at the Garden. It's about the fans. I want them to apologize to the fans. I told the commissioner I want them to apologize to the fans."

Several former and active players publicly supported Oakley, including Cavaliers superstar LeBron James.

Per Joe Vardon of Cleveland.com, King James said he called Oakley after the incident to check on him and he followed that up by saying, "Charles Oakley for president."

Oakley never played for the Cavs during his 19-year NBA career, but he was selected by the team with the No. 9 overall pick in the 1985 draft before getting his rights traded to the Chicago Bulls.
 
I learned since Former Mayor Judy Guliani was in office that New York City Officials have an agenda ,to just rob New Yorkers of their hard earn money and give little back in return.Dolan is no different.
 
The Knicks can't even win games to at least try and make people forget .I don't see a good Knick team excel anytime soon.We may see a *Lilly White Knick team bring (with Donald doing Operation Ethnic Cleansing here along with God knows what else is next ) a championship team here in New York.
 
He should give less than a fuck. What is he missing? The sorry ass Knicks getting their ass whipped?? :rolleyes:
 

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