Noah Shachtman

The threshold they claimed was threats, credible threats.

But the threshold of credible seems, I don't know, not what you and I would describe as credible.

So for one example, back in 2021, there was this one teenager in Colorado who said something on Twitter and Eversol and the Madison Square Garden security staff said,

went into freak-out mode.

And they actually called the local cops on this kid.

But when that happened, according to one of our sources, here's a quote, they would, quote, freak the f*** out.

Yeah.

We even got another text message about this.

Nah, different one.

We can't show it on screen.

That's part of what I have agreed to.

But the text reads, and I'm quoting here, at least they scared the crap, poop emoji, out of some 14-year-old kid in Colorado.

Yeah.

One veteran of Madison Square Garden security told me that Dolan would, quote, come in and he and Eversol would pour over all these social media comments about the Knicks and the Rangers.

Look, the Garden's security systems have started out janky, but they've grown more sophisticated over time.

And weirdly, they got more sophisticated because of a dude who used to run a quick lube shop in Montana.

I'm totally serious.

He had, back in the day, back in the 90s, he had run a telecom company.

After Montana, he'd found himself in Vegas.

And when he was in Vegas, he used some of his technological know-how to help out a buddy of his at the McCarran Airport in Vegas.