Plenty of fans seem to have made some peace with mismanagement, if only because you have to be at the game in order to chant “Sell the team!” at Dolan. In the video from Monday, Lee can be heard referring to the former Knicks player Charles Oakley, who got into his own disagreement with Dolan three years ago and was removed from his front-row seat at MSG and handcuffed.ĭespite the recurring calls for Dolan to sell the team amid continually dire seasons with no end in sight, ticket sales for Knicks home games remain strong (and Dolan still makes money). “Is my son who's 24, is he gonna die before another championship?” “Am I gonna die before we win another championship?” he asked. Lee also got into some other familiar Knicks issues, even for fans who don’t also pay $299,000 per year for season tickets, a number that First Take host Stephen A. I said, ‘Nah, this is spin.’” He said that he’d never been informed of a new policy about where he was allowed to enter the arena.
But on First Take, Lee said, “It was a terrible experience.” On his way home from the game, he continued, “my son read me the statement by the Garden. He and Dolan could be seen shaking hands and smiling at halftime, and Lee was in his courtside seat for the second half, according to ESPN.
On Monday night, the Knicks management claimed Lee was trying to use the wrong entrance to the arena, and that the matter had been resolved. “I'm coming back next year, but I'm done for the season,” Lee said on ESPN’s First Take on Tuesday morning. Any number of fans might have lost interest, but the Brooklyn-born filmmaker has stuck around, at least until Monday night’s game against the Houston Rockets, where Lee was filmed having a heated dispute with MSG security. Through the last few decades of New York Knicks turmoil, including the customary carousel of coaches, general managers, and team presidents, there have been a few near constants: underwhelming performances, James Dolan’s ownership, and Spike Lee’s presence in the front row at Madison Square Garden home games.
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