Pablo Torre

And prior to leaving the office, another security staffer informed Mr. Eversol, allegedly, that they needed to be wary of potential witness tampering, to which Mr. Eversol responded, quote, just get me the equipment and stop thinking, end quote.

And of course, I'm not here to have you litigate these allegations that you are not representing, but just the idea that surveillance is something that is being contemplated by sports owners in general.

The genre we're describing is not

surprising given your understanding of how this stuff is being deployed.

Right.

I mean, to quote Ronan Farrow's New Yorker story about that case, Weinstein had the agencies target or collect information on dozens of individuals and compile psychological profiles that sometimes focused on their personal or sexual histories.

Weinstein monitored the progress of the investigations personally.

These are within the powers of people with disposable income at this point in ways that I was naive to, frankly, until some of the reporting landed on my laptop screen.

Holding like a giant satellite dish in their hand, right?

Yeah.

By the way, just the last check here, I'm getting the latest updates.

An estimated 85 million surveillance cameras and counting in the United States is what the recent best estimate is.

So one for every three and a half Americans.

The question of, again, is this a story about the Knicks?

Is this a story about the larger surveillance state that we are existing in without appreciating that we've been here for a while, watched?

The answer, I think, is a yes and.

It is.

And one of the things about the idiosyncrasies of the people who have the capacity to own a private surveillance state that thousands, millions of fans will enter, it's that, yeah, the dude he chose to be his chief security officer who did not respond to detailed questions, this is the aforementioned John Eversoul, we did get to spot him.

On a more public feed, which is to say that CJ McCollum at one point was doing the NBC Sports postgame.

And, oh, look, there he is right next to Jim Dolan over his left shoulder.